Neuroanatomy

When I was a toddler, flashing lights would always catch my attention. For entertainment, my parents would watch films with settings in populous cities, but I only had eyes for New York. As a four-year-old donning an atrocious bowl cut, I knew that my heart belonged to the Big Apple. As I visited campus for the first time last summer, I was struck by the beauty and enormity of it all. It was the Butler Library that did it—the Butler Library, with its ornamental chandeliers and floor to ceiling…

Down syndrome, also called Trisomy 21, is a congenital disorder resulting in abnormal development of the brain, causing mental retardation in varying degrees (Carlson, N. R., 530). Down syndrome is the most frequent human birth defect. Mother’s age, in most cases the mothers ova functions differently causing her to produce two (rather than one) twenty-first chromosomes. When fertilization occurs, the father’s twenty-first chromosome makes three rather than two. Down syndrome causes developmental…

The unsuccessful attempt at repairing the damaged forelimb nerve of my pet dog by the veterinary surgeon, when I was a teenager stirred my interest in knowing more about the structure and functions of the nervous system, in both health and diseases. Also, clearly etched in my memory is the life changing transformations, which patients that I have been opportuned to co-manage with neurologists underwent. From being gainfully employed to being jobless, from ambulating freely to having abnormal…

More than an inventor, Dr. Charles Drew was the first African American to create unique methods of storing blood plasma for transfusion and organized the first large-scale blood bank in the United States. Growing up the oldest out of his siblings, Drew was an athletic student that excelled in every sport he played. Since his father, a carpet layer, was not financially able to send him to college, Drew heavily relied on his athletic abilities to get him to Amherst College in 1926. After…

These glands are closely associated with the hypothalamus in their functionality. As such, the pituitary gland produces an array of hormones once it receives signals from the hypothalamus. These hormones are responsible for regulating the activities of the other glands, such as prolactin, which is involved in milk production, adrenocorticotropic hormone which responds to stress through a stimulation of the epinephrine, hormone responsible for the stimulation of thyroid, as well as the…

The biological model suggests that mental illnesses have a physical cause, for example, an illness which could have been caused by an infection, genes, brain biochemistry or neuroanatomy (Cardwell and Flanagan, 2005). Bacterial and viral infections can damage the brain, resulting in a malfunction. An example of this is general paralysis of the insane, which is a neuropsychiatric disorder caused by a sexually transmitted infection called syphilis. Brown et al., (2000) discovered a link between…

Human Brains Causes of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Chanda Bajracharya February 9, 2018 Midwestern State University Abstract The anatomical study of the brain is known as neuroanatomy, whereas the study of their function is known as neuroscience. The human brain is an extraordinarily powerful organ of the body. It helps to function all the body parts and the amazing fact is it weights around three pounds only. It is covered by the skulls. The largest part of the human brain is cerebrum.…

Amnesia A slideshow of familiar faces and people; every frame associated with a particular smell, taste, emotion, or feeling. Our memories are foundational to each of our personalities and influence nearly every decision that is made throughout our days. A network of associates weigh the possible benefits and repercussions of every decision that could influence you in the future at supersonic speed, based on previous experience and recollection. So, how would someone without access to their own…

Dry needling involves the insertion of needles into tender points in the body without the injection of any substance. It is used to treat painful musculoskeletal disorders. The more common approaches, which are best supported by research, target myofascial trigger points. Dry needling and trigger point theory emerged from the use of injections of anesthetic to treat painful musculoskeletal conditions. Myofascial pain, or “trigger point” pain is often the source of chronic pain and dysfunction,…

There has been recent research that has stated that obsession-compulsion disorder involves the dysfunction in a neuronal loop that runs from the orbital frontal cortex to the cingulate gyrus, striatum (cuadate nucleus and putamen), globus pallidus, thalamus and then back to the frontal cortex (Yerevanian, 2010). To back up The Carlat Psychiatry Report’s research, supporting the hypothesis is the results of neurosurgical treatment of obsession-compulsion disorder (Huey, 2010). Believed to…