Serotonin syndrome

In today’s society adolescence are often pressured into many things by the media. According to magazines they have to look a certain way, around their friends they must act a certain way, and of course family always heaves the stress on by making sure they maintain good grades, think about colleges, hold down a job, and overall be basically a superhero. With all of the stress that goes with being an adolescent, there are other situations that just add more fuel to the raging fire. However, as a…

NEUROTRANSTITTOR AND PERCEPTION 1. Describe how neurons communicate with each other through electrical and chemical processes. The human brain has two types of cells, neurons and glial cells. For a simplistic description, the glial cells are like the neuron maintenance cells, they are necessary to keep the neuron insulated and waste free, allowing the neuron to be more efficient in their job. “Glial cells also appear to influence the formation of synapses and to aid in determining which…

entire body. Serotonin, a neurotransmitter, can alter the pain threshold, making it increasingly more sensitive. Serotonin can also affect sleep and the sex drive. Studies show that a chemical imbalance in specific areas of the brain, these imbalances affects the body and brain causing problems in everyday life. Serotonin carries signals along and between nerves, it is responsible for maintaining mood balance ensuring that is does not increase or decrease too much, a deficit of serotonin leads…

metabolism with serotonin, melatonin and tryptophan. 5HTP has been used over the counter for relief of minor and major depression since the late 1970 's especially in Europe. 5-HTP is the main precursor in the brain for the portion of Serotonin. The main studies that have shown the importance of this nuero transmitter have been related to treating dysphoria after use of the street drug extract or MDMA. Significant studies in rats showed that increasing dietary 5-HTP helped increase serotonin…

All people are different when it comes to their experience with addiction and mental illness. Some begin to experience mental health issues during childhood or adolescence and experiment with drugs and alcohol soon after, developing both an addiction problem and a serious mental illness at the same time. Others may seek out drugs and alcohol in an attempt to “self-medicate” a mental health issue that develops in early adulthood or that develops out of an injury or trauma later in life. Still…

When I was a little, my mother made sure I was involved in sports. Although I’m a girl, she wanted me to focus only on sports, rather than learn how to walk in heals, which I still struggle with today. Tennis was the first sport I joined at the age of five, but that was not enough. As I began training for tennis tournaments, my coach decided that I need to join track in order to increase my speed on the court. For my mother that was a marvelous idea, but for me it was not as marvelous. The first…

a) Medial prefrontal cortex: the mPFC is divided into three subregions, which have differential control over HPA axis. The prelimbic (PrL) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) provides negative feedback to HPA axis and thereby reduces the stress-induced activation of HPA axis. The PrL and ACC reduces the duration of secretion without altering the peak of secretions and thus help in response termination. The lesion of mPFC consisting prelimbic cortex have known to produced enhanced cfos expression…

slows down the secretion of cortisol. Furthermore serotonin is a neurotransmitter that is often found at a lower level in the brain of depressives. It is often the case that raised levels of cortisol lead to lowered levels of serotonin so the depression may be a cause of an interaction between the two. Evidence for a lowered level of serotonin causing depression comes from the effectiveness of anti depressant drugs such as Prozac, which increases serotonin activity whilst reducing the depressive…

Log concentration-response curve to carbachol in the absence or presence of a series of concentrations of antagonist were showed on Figure 1. The log concentration-response curve has a characteristic sigmoidal shape. The addition of higher concentration of antagonist into the organ bath made the curves gradually shift to the right in a nearly parallel manner (Fig 1). The higher concentration of Atropine, the more its curve moved to the right of the graph. However, these effects of antagonist did…

at athletics, job-related matters, self-appearance, keeping things clean, making someone happy, and the list goes on. Because of these obsessions, many decide to perform different compulsions such as tasks, behaviors, rituals, and/or repetitive syndromes. Some of these compulsions may coincide with an obsession as pediatrician Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph explains. Ben-Joseph stated that many times compulsions are related to the obsessions, for example, if a person is scared about germs or being sick…