Parasympathetic nervous system

Reading 10: LITTLE EMOTIONAL ALBERT Watson, J.B., & Rayner R. (1920). Conditioned emotional responses. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3, 1-14. In the 1920’s a new movement known as behaviorism began to take hold, which suggested that behavior is formed outside the person through various environmental factors or situational stimuli. Watson theorized emotional responses occur, because we have been conditioned to respond emotionally. Watson wanted to demonstrate that if a stimulus…

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…

electrochemical messages from the brain and spinal cord(the central nervous system). When the brain sends a message to the rest of your body telling it how to move, the message first starts in the brain. These neurons in the brain, called upper neurons, then send the message to the spinal cord’s lower neurons to be sent out to the motor neurons in the rest of the body. In patients with ALS, both of the lower and upper neurons in the central nervous system (CNS) degenerate and die, causing loss…

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…

history, our understanding of neurological sciences has vastly improved alongside the examination and research of C. elegans. Through their ease of accessibility, C. elegans, have become a staple organism in discovering the mechanisms in which the nervous system promotes survival (Allen et al. 2015). The C. elegans’ structural integral is very straightforward, consisting of 302 neurons, with 60 of them being sensory neurons (Pieczynski 2016). Thanks to this simplicity, we can easily observe C.…

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…

answering your phone may sound simple, there are many activities and processes that are occurring in your body to make answering your phone possible. One primary human body system that collects stimulus and impulses which channel them throughout the body to allow a response to occur is called the nervous system. The nervous system has many unique cells, about 100 billion, called…

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…

Football and boxing is a contact sport, indiviuals are getting hit in the head a lot. It is very dangerous. It is very dangerous because, it is bad for indiviuals health.Also, males or females can develop permanent brain damage. However parents and children do not take it serious until something happens to them, or to their child. Studies show, "While much of the health and safety debate over football and other contact sports focuses on the risk of developing severe, headline-grabbing…