Nervous system

Concussions are dangerous. Recently, some light has been shed on one of the newest yet most pressing issues of the most recent years. Concussions, a potentially fatal outcome from high impact collisions in aggressive sports. At a professional level, competitors are at an all time high in their athletic ability. Although there are much worse and life threatening injuries in sports, concussions are a common injury that can happen multiple times. With these types of forces and pressures on the head…

Does playing a instrument affect intelligence one poses an Annotated Bibliography Bower, Bruce. "Harvard Gazette: Music on the Brain." Harvard Gazette: Music on the Brain. Science News, n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2015. . The article reports that learning to play a musical instrument, may indeed give children an intellectual edge over their peers. Six-year- olds who took weekly piano lessons throughout the school year showed an average increase in IQ says psychologist E. Glenn…

A human’s cognitive ability is unlike any other animal on the earth. Compared to other animals, the human brain possesses more neurons and synapses, tallying eighty-six billion and one hundred fifty trillion respectively. The wiring of the brain and its connections are responsible for human’s superior cognition. Thus, the reason neuroscientists pursue research of neural connections is obvious; neural connections are the fundamental basis of individual expression. Many famous neuroscientists,…

Football is something that is learned at a young age. It starts out as flag and then progressively turns to contact. When we start the contact portion of it, we are taught how to tackle correctly, how to do it without hurting ourselves or the other player. But what happens when we do not tackle correctly? We can get broken bones, bruises, or concussions. What Happens when you receive a lot of concussions? You can develope a CTE over time. What exactly is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)?…

Have you ever seen a young child so eager to get their little hands on an electronic device, for instance, a cell phone or a computer? Well I have, and most of the time they would end up turning into Daffy Duck from Looney Tunes, full of anger and stubbornness, because the word ‘no’ was their answer. Lately I have been curious to know why children act the way they do when it comes to electronics. From my experience I have seen my two nephews, who are three years old and five years old, often…

Anti-Calbindin binds to Calbindin (CB) and labels GABAergic neurons In our immunohistochemistry (IHC) experiment, we used anti-Calbindin as our primary antibody, Goat anti-Rabbit 488 IgG as our secondary antibody (“488” meaning that the fluorescent dye is excited at a wavelength of 488nm, fluorescing green), and DAPI-mounting serum as a DNA (nucleus) marker with blue fluorescence for reference against anti-Calbindin-marked GABAergic neurons (Lammel, 2016). While GABAergic-neuron-expressing…

This disease causes problems with judgement, memory and overall thinking. In the human brain, plaques are clusters of protein fragments called beta-amyloid peptides (Marsa, 2015, p. 7). They collect outside the nerve cells and disrupt the signaling system between neurons, blocking them from relaying messages. (Marsa, 2015, p. 7). This communication breakdown in the hippocampus explains why a patient with Alzheimer’s suffers progressive memory loss, confusion and increasing difficulty doing…

I find it very funny that every age is mocking the elders and title them as being stereo type, I used to laugh -in my secret of course- when my mother put her thick glasses and try hardly to dive in her IPhone options, that she got recently, and after a while, she gets tired and shouts for someone of us to help her to access to her Facebook account, it seems to no matter how many times we try to teach her something, she forgets the other. Every are has its own trend or known for something, and…

The mind is one of the most powerful weapons on earth. "We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think." It has the ability to push you forward or hold you back. My mind was as cynical as a horror movie before I realized what it was doing to my future. Soon enough I realized that in order to reach my highest goals, I had to open my mind to what I called the 'impossible.' "A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there". For the greater part of my life, I stuck with…

SCIENCE ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY MATHEMATICS By Teanah Bautista and Izak Ford BIOLOGY OF HEARING The hearing is a quite a significant piece of creation used by humans. The complex organization of bones, hair, and cells it captures vibrated sound waves and processes to the brain. With everything happening almost instantly. But it's not as easy as it sounds. The sound is invisible vibrated particles through the air. The moving vibrations cause the air around to also vibrate creating sound waves…