Split-brain

One morning, not engaged in my English class in which I was currently in at the time. I saw a title to a report that struck me as something I could relate to one-hundred percent. The word in the title “multitasking” caught my attention. It is something I find myself doing all too often. Even now as I sit here at my laptop writing this essay. I have iTunes radio playing, responding to text messages, and checking my social media accounts every few minutes for new updates. While I have many things…

The focus of the research was to understand if cerebral dopamine neurotrophic factor (CDNF) has the ability to protect and restore dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal system following the injection of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP). The research was conducted because there has not been a study conducted on the MPTP Parkinson’s disease model with the treatment of CDNF. C57/B16 mice were used as the research subjects. The hypothesis was first tested by injecting the…

Excitotoxicity is a pathological process in which neurons are damaged or killed due to the excessive stimulation of certain neurotransmitters such as glutamate. This process of excitotoxic neuronal death is known to contribute to the pathogenesis of brain and/or spinal cord injury associated with multiple human diseases such as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). (2) ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that involves both the upper and lower motor neurons. Glutamate excitotoxicity is…

outside the cell. Since nerve cells in humans are extremely small, they used giant squid axons to get a better understanding of how the electrical signal is processed from one cell to another. 2. Discuss the possible effects of inflammation of the brain on…

fine-tuned vision. The rods are located outside the macula allow for night vision, peripheral vision, and the ability it sense motion. Together, they turn the light into electrical impulses to be sent to the brain. The electrical impulses travel by way of ganglion cells through the optic nerve into the brain (Rogers, 2010). When the impulses hit an area called the chiasm, information from the central vision crosses over to the opposite side from which it was originally seen, meets up with the…

mammalian species in two regions of the adult brain: the subgranular zone of the hippocampal dentate gyrus and the subependymal zone [SEZ, also subventricular zone] adjacent to the lateral ventricles [1, 2]. Lower levels of neurogenesis have been reported in other regions of the rodent and primate brain, including the neocortex [3, 4], amygdala [5] and substantia nigra [6], but this has been difficult to replicate consistently other than in the diseased brain [7]. Other studies provided…

It can be obtained by receiving blows to the head and continuing to play sports with brain trauma. Football players are most known of having CTE because of the head to head contact in games. Many victims are in the early 20s when they start noticing CTE symptoms that soon can lead to dangerous events. Jovan Belcher, former football player…

One big obstacle I had to over come was, when I discovered I had Frontal Lobe Epilepsy. I had my first seizure in my Junior year, October 18, 2013 on my best friends birthday, in the middle of my fathers AP United States History class. At the time we thought it was a one time thing and it was not going to happen again. That was until my Birthday party in July the following summer. We returned to the Neurologist to get another EEG and MRI. That is when we discovered that they were due to scar…

Direct Quote Despite all of the thoughts on music and helping you study it may have an opposing effect. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University states“Music with lyrics is very likely to have a problematic effect when you’re writing or reading.” I believe this to be true, though I do like to listen to music in class it is very hard to focus on music and reading or your music and your teacher lecturing the class on your next assignment. Glenn Schellenberg a professor in the psychology…

Alzheimer’s is a permanent brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. It will eventually inhibit the ability to carry out the simplest daily tasks. More than 5 million people have the disorder. Adults younger than the age of 65 account for almost 500,000 cases. There are seven stages to Alzheimer’s. These seven stages range from no impairment to severe dementia. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning that interferes with a person’s daily life. Alzheimer’s disease is…