Pineal gland

Oxidation is a process where atoms or molecules combine with oxygen. Combustion is an example of oxidation reaction. Whenever oxidation reaction takes place with metals like iron, rust is formed as a byproduct. When oxidation reaction occurs in people, it is what we call aging. Inside the human body, there are free radicals or molecules that are missing one electron. If an oxygen molecule loses one electron, it becomes a single oxygen atom that needs one electron. The single oxygen atom would…

The endocrine system in a human consists of 9 glands throughout the body. These glands are the pineal, hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, pancreas, adrenals, and ovaries (female) / testes (male). Working interconnectedly these glands providing storage, pathways and releasing of various hormones throughout the body (Zoeller et al., 2014). In a patient with Turners Syndrome the…

It was believed that the pineal gland was where the mind and body interact and was the “seat of our souls”, this was due to its location; close to the ventricles. The cerebrospinal fluid inside the ventricles were thought to act as a control the body, governed by the pineal gland. This suggests that the mind and brain have a bi-directional relationship, with both being able to interact with the other…

Cardiac conditions that may develop into a sleep disorder are Ischemia and Congestive Heart Failure. Pulmonary conditions include: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, central alveolar, hypoventilation, and sleep apnea. Gastrointestinal conditions include reflux disease. Hematologic conditions include: paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, which is associated with brownish-red urine --- extremely rare. Older people have a disease in sleep time with waking up more during the night.…

Stone therapy treatments have become more and more popular in recent times and can now be found as a staple in many salons and spas. An increasing amount of individuals prefer a stone therapy treatment to a regular manual massage as they find the combination of hot cold stones are able to penetrate deeper into the muscle tissue to achieve better healing. Although stone therapy as a professional service is relatively new, massage itself is one of the oldest forms healing employed by practitioners…

Chapters three and four of Greenspan and Dearborne’s book, The New Puberty, discuss the biological and environmental influences on the pubertal process with particular emphasis on symptoms of early puberty and the potential causes and concerns. Bodily changes, such as the appearance of pubic hair and breast development, are both signs of puberty, however, they are not always true indicators that early puberty has actually occurred. As Greenspan and Dearborne explain, “Because pubic hair reflects…

Promote interior conditions that could be required control for homeostasis. Those are water substance and body temperature. In the event that homeostasis does not kept up, the body can't be capacity legitimately and disease may guarantee. Homeostasis is the procedure in that the body's inside surroundings is hold consistent in light of any outside environment changes. This includes keeping up consistent quality in different body frameworks. Temperature direction is a vital substantial capacity…

What is the Mind-Body Problem? How did Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia characterize this problem for Descartes’ Meditations? How did Descartes respond to her questions? How does he explain the relationship between the mind and the body? What views do we see from Malbranche, Spinoza and Leibniz? The Mind-Body Problem is that the mind and body are not the same and they are two different substances. It is like the mind and body’s involvement exists in separate mental and physical realms.…

He argued that the mind is responsible for thinking processes while the body is responsible for much of life’s functions, including movements. This suggested that some movements are not a result of the mind, but rather a reflex of the body. He ultimately established that the brain is important for behavior and thinking. This further supported Descartes claim that the mind and body are separate and fueled later research on the nervous system and its relationship to the mind and brain. It can…

COURSE -PERSPECTIVES OF KNOWLEDGE NAME - DIVYANSHU SHARMA ROLL NUMBER – 2013034 JOURNAL ON THE MIND BODY PROBLEM EMPHASISING ON DESCARTES Descartes believed that a person or human being such as you or me is a two-part composite, of a mind and a body or to put it simple a person is just the mind but has a body. And according to him, the mind is an entirely immaterial, nonphysical thing or simply a collection of information. What unites the mind with our body is that it causally…