Neurology

Stop reading if this doesn’t fit. Have you ever felt like you wake up, get ready, maybe get the kids ready, head off to work or school, take the old same route to work every day, get off work, go to the gym, go cook dinner, watch some TV, get ready for bed, then go to bed and do that same day all over again. If this sounds pretty familiar to you; then it might be wise to go back and reread the mindless autopilot rerun of a life that you may be living. We usually don’t open our eyes to see what…

I am researching neurosurgery and everything that it takes to become a neurosurgeon. . It takes extreme amounts of hard work and dedication to become a neurosurgeon. Many hours will be spent studying to complete a degree in this medical field. Competition is tough to get into medical school these days. I am interested in researching neurosurgery because I am fascinated by the brain. It is truly incredible how the brain functions and controls everything that goes on in your body. There is still…

The Nervous System The nervous system is one of the most important systems in the human body because it sends out messages from the brain into the body parts and coordinates the body activities. This allows the body to have and be in control. The two major systems in the nervous system are the peripheral system and the central system. The autonomic nervous system is the last nervous system which controls internal body functions such as temperature regulation, blood pressure, and all other…

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is a cognitive disorder with two forms: neurodegenerative and vascular disorders. Neurodegenerative is a deterioration of the mind and vascular disorders are caused by a decreased blood supply to the brain.(Lewis et al., 2014, p. 1444) With Alzheimer’s disease, the brain starts to change with age and brain transmitters start to get covered with plaque, get tangled, louse connections, and cause death in some transmitters. These…

In my opinion, the human body is one of the most complex mechanisms known to mankind – even more complex than the latest iPhone X. The human body comprises of many different systems: the digestive system, the endocrine system, the exocrine system, the muscular system, the urinary system, the reproductive system, the respiratory system, the circulatory system, the sympathetic system, the skeletal system. The human body consists of about 300 bones at birth and this number decreases to 206 by…

“Don’t wait, not everyone gets the time I’m getting” (Albom 166). This was said by Morrie Schwartz. Morrie had a disease called ALS, ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a disease that affects the nervous system, weakening the muscles and affects how the body functions. It’s slowing taking over his body, even he is dying and his time is limited, he takes the time he has left to make things right with people. Not everyone realizes that they had the time to live the life the right way until…

There are few things I remember. I was painting, felt dizzy, the next thing I remember is talking to the paramedic as I was lying on the floor. I remember being in the hospital, but not going to the hospital. I remember talking to my friends in the hospital, then I remember talking to the doctors, them telling me I had had three seizures in the past two days. Three weeks later, I remember waking up on a Wednesday with a killer headache. The worst headache I had ever had, but I don’t remember how…

After Bart and Hank were in a severe car accident, they both suffered from different kinds of amnesia. Even though they both now have amnesia, they have different types of amnesia. There are two different types of amnesia that a person can have. These are retrograde amnesia and anterograde amnesia. The difference between the two types of amnesia that Bart and Hank have, is whether or not they have the loss of memory for events before or after the start of their amnesia. Because of Bart’s…

I. Introduction: The purpose of the case study is to determine which of the patient’s cranial nerve(s) are damaged. The human brain and brain stem contain eleven pairs of cranial nerves to the neck and head, and one pair of cranial nerves to the abdomen and thorax. Each cranial nerve is numbered by a Roman numeral and in sequential order from cranial to caudal: (I) olfactory nerve carries sensory information to the brain and is responsible for the nose; (II) optic nerve carries sensory…

According to the Mayo Clinic, Huntington's disease can be defined as, “is an inherited disease that causes the progressive breakdown (degeneration) of nerve cells in the brain” (Huntington's disease, 2017). Huntington's disease is often times referred to as HD. The symptoms of Huntington's disease can impact someone on different levels including: cognitive, muscular, behavioral, psychological, and mood. This is not a disease that one obtains from somebody coughing on one. It is an autosomal…