Nervous system

This video is about maturing and aging. In 1950 research on maturing and aging began. Development and growth are not the same in this context. Erikson helped redirect developmental psychology toward the entire life cycle from his own experiences as an immigrant. He developed 8 stages of development: trust vs. mistrust 0-1 years old), autonomy vs. doubt (1-3 years old), initiative vs. guilt (3-6 years old), industry vs. inferiority (6-11 years old), identity vs. role confusion (11-18 years…

Sciatica is agony in the lower furthest point coming about because of bothering of the sciatic nerve. The agony of sciatica is normally felt from the low back (lumbar range) to behind the thigh and can transmit down beneath the knee. The sciatic nerve is the biggest nerve in the body and starts from nerve roots in the lumbar spinal line in the low back and stretches out through the butt cheek territory to send nerve endings down the lower appendage. The torment of sciatica is once in a while…

Question #1. The brain has two hemisphere, the right and left side. Each hemisphere has it own function working different ways, but are connected by the corpus callosum to serve the body. The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. The left side is more of the academic side and logical side. The left side is better at understanding language. Language as in being able to communicate with others (speaking). Also comprehending and reading. Left side is better at musical tempo like…

Memory loss can happen in many ways from amnesia to alzheimer's. Alzheimer's is a brain disorder that will slowly destroy memory and thinking skills. It will make it hard for a person to remember the easiest things to do, like remembering were there own bathroom is in their own house. Alzheimer's is a disease that around five million people have. It has been ranked sixth in diseases that kill people in the united states but recent studies have shown that is could have reached rank 3 in the…

The article “Jesse Jackson Announces He Has Parkinson’s Disease” by Niraj Chokshi is mainly about how Jesse L. Jackson, “a longtime civil rights leader and former Democratic presidential candidate”, announces to the public he has Parkinson's disease (Chokshi 1). In the article, Chokshi mentions the symptoms of the disease which happen because of the damage to the brain. This disease cannot currently be cured, but it can be slowed down by the drug levodopa. Levodopa increases the amount of…

Dementia is an umbrella term. By this I mean that it covers many different conditions. Each condition affects the brain and can lead to dementia due to brain de deterioration and loss of function. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome- this is a brain disorder in which not getting enough B1 vitamin will affect your brain function. B1 vitamin is used in the brain to change sugar into energy. If there is a shortage then there will be a shortage of energy and thus, making the brain function less. Vascular…

Cognitive Advantages Of Piracetam: Side Effects, Dosage And Stacking Piracetam is best and effective old drug and it has been used like the nitrous capsules. Often it has been tested and tried by people around this day. The Piracetam is belongs to the class of reacting and that proven for helping in the process of cognition. Mostly, Piracetam works in order to enhance the special process in our brain and it will improve the certain receptors and function in the brain. The acetylcholine receptors…

Our interest in the topic of Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) started when we heard about how many people are affected by this disease. The number of people affected by this disease in the United States alone is around 400,000 people. This genetic disorder is caused when a person is born with an extra copy of chromosome twenty-one. Down syndrome is recognized by things such as short stature, a distinctive palm crease, stubby fingers, mental retardation that can end up being serious, a wide gap between…

Virchow-Robin (VR) spaces or perivascular spaces of the brain refer to spaces that accompany the cerebral vessels as they pass from subarachnoid space into the brain parenchyma. A few evident perivascular spaces can be considered normal at any age but many visible perivascular spaces are not. The relevance of visible perivascular spaces to SVD is shown by their presence in increased numbers in patients with white matter hyper-intensities and with symptomatic lacunar ischemic stroke. The…

Neurogenesis is the process in which new neural stem cells are created. In the past, it was thought that this process ends in childhood. New studies have proven this wrong, and in fact neurogenesis continues to occur throughout adulthood. It is now hypothesized to play to be the main component in neural plasticity, our ability to learn, and memorize. There are many factors that can affect neurogenesis, both genetic and environmental. Cruz and Nixon (2003) sought to see what effects, if any, that…