Pituitary gland

Sleep constitutes a major portion of our daily lives. During each night, the average person cycles through Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, and REM sleep multiple times before waking. However, hours before we succumb to sleep, our bodies are already hard at work producing hormones that encourage sleep. Many biological factors influence the quality of sleep we experience and one of significant importance is the hormone melatonin. Melatonin plays two major roles in the physiology of sleep. Its first role is to…

senses, (smell, touch, see, taste, and hear.) http://study.com/academy/lesson/sensory-neurons-definition-function-quiz.html A motor neuron does the complete opposite of the sensory neurons. A motor neuron signal goes from your brain to your muscles or glands, example is your motor neurons tell your hand to open a door to walk out. http://www.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/LilburnES/PromoteGA/biochemistry/Neurons_types.html An interneuron is what connects neurons in the spinal cord and brain so they can…

testosterone is needed for the formation of the prostate. Elevated level are need for adolescent males can form their reproductive system, in which the prostate is included. Also the formation of the adrenal gland is important because testosterone is an androgen that is made it the adrenal gland after puberty. Therefore, some scientists believe that there is a direct correlation between the high levels of testosterone and prostate cancer. However, there are also some researchers that believe the…

Introduction of Patient My patient is Freda Wilson, a 64-year-old Caucasian female who resides in Shawnee, Kansas with her husband. Mrs. Wilson is 5’5” tall and weighs 148 pounds, has two adult children, and is a relatively healthy individual. Mrs. Wilson and her husband spent five days in Oklahoma babysitting their grandchildren, two boys – one and three years old. Within 24 hours of returning home, Mrs. Wilson had a headache, felt fatigue, and later in the afternoon spiked a fever in excess…

Rene Descartes published his Meditations back in 1641, eight years after Galileo discovered that the Earth was not the center of the universe but, in fact, the sun was the center. This shook many people’s ideologies on what they knew on religion, their senses, and what it meant to gain knowledge. While Rene Descartes is very well known for his Cogito erg Sum ( I think therefore I am), he also came up with a theory of Substance Dualism. Substance Dualism is Rene Descartes way of explaining the…

Fact Primary hypothyroidism refers to an underactive thyroid caused by a defi- ciency in thyroid hormone. Central hypothyroidism is a term that de- scribes a reduction in thyroid hormone caused by problems with the pitu- itary gland. Although the causes differ, treatment is usually the same. Around the world, the condition is caused primarily by a deficiency of iodine, a mineral found in saltwater, which the body uses to produce thyroid hormone. But with the introduction…

Hormonal pattern of mother: Hormonal changes that take place after delivery affect the ovulation. Each woman’s body will respond to the hormonal levels differently. How can breast feeding suppress ovulation? A signal is sent to the pituitary gland and the pituitary gland will release a hormone called prolactin when the baby suckles the breast. The prolactin suppresses the ovulation. As the frequency of the sucking increases, the level of prolactin also increases. Higher the level of prolactin,…

Slept debt is the sleep lost building up overtime. In the case of Tina, she sleeps for three to four hours when she should be getting at least seven and a half hours of sleep. Due to this, it is causing sleep debt and will cause her to have mental and physical problems. REM rebound is when someone returns to the REM sleep more quickly and stays there often due to sleep deprivation. In the case of Tina, she is more likely to fall quickly in the REM sleep because she is sleep deprived. The five…

Throughout completing the multiple ZAPS interactive activities, I learned a great deal about various important areas of psychological research. I reviewed topics such as student stress, emotional recognition using facial expression, personality traits, and face perception. Each ZAP activity included an exercise that closely related to the subject matter. The topics covered coincided with chapters in the textbook for psychology 200. The student stress section explained the difference between…

disproportionate at birth. During research I found that there are a lot more dwarfs disproportionate versus proportionate in the world. The lack of bone growth, which is common in both proportionate and disproportionate dwarfism, is caused when the pituitary gland fails to produce a decent amount supply of growth hormone, which is essential for normal childhood growth. There are 3 different types of dwarfism: Achondroplasia, Spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (SED), and Diastrophic dysplasia. The most…