Sympathetic nervous system

Category A: Question 2: Brain Architecture- Implications for Parents a. Explain how the basic architecture of the brain develops during the early childhood years (birth to age 8). b. If you were asked to explain the implications of these brain development facts to a group of first-time parents, what would be the three most important pieces of advice you would give them? Before a child is born, their brain is already working and taking in new information. When a fetus is in the mother’s womb,…

In 1929, English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, said: “I lay it down as an educational axiom that in teaching you will come to grief as soon as you forget that your pupils have bodies.” Pressured by the implementation of Common Core and No Child Left Behind, many schools are increasing the amount of in-seat test preparation time. There are just not enough hours in the day to get all of the information presented and absorbed into their students’ precious little minds.…

Gender affects the human race in many different ways. It can be a separating barrier between people. There are stereotypes, such as both genders being unable to communicate effectively, females being moody, and males having no emotion whatsoever, that are only based on what the human race believes as a society. They might also include things like determining what one gender might be able to do better than the other. This brings forth the idea of whether one brain might be better than the other.…

The first Nobel conference event I listened to was the panel discussion. In this discussion, treatment options were explored. Four different speakers were involved, including William Cope Moyers, who is the author of the book Broken that we are reading in class. The first speaker was Anne Fletcher. She shared that of the 22 million people that need treatment, only 10 percent receive treatment. Most people do not need treatment according to her, and most can get better on their own. The severe…

yellow around the edges which he calls a temptation in which he thinks he sees upon a wall. Smart says, “That is, for a full description of what is going on in a man you would have to mention not only the physical processes in his tissue, glands, nervous system, and so forth, but also his states of consciousness: his visual, auditory, and tactical sensations, his aches and pains” (372, Rosen, Bryne, Cohen, Shiffrin). This exact evidence leads me to believe that my eyes see things that my brain,…

The earth contains a massive amount of biodiversity, like other animals on this planet, humans are just a member of the animal species. We tend to think or see ourselves as more superior to other living organisms because we have special features that allow us to function somewhat different from the rest of the animals. But still we are not different from the other animals, especially our closest living primate relatives, the bonobos and chimpanzees. To understand ourselves and what our place in…

The observation of distinct locomotor behaviour presented by the different zebrafish embryos is consistent with the findings of previous studies. From 17 hpf, zebrafish embryos demonstrate spontaneous tail coiling by contracting the sides of its tail, a form of specialised locomotor behaviour activity (Brustein et al., 2003). Spontaneous tail coiling is not myogenic but arises from the innervation of functional motorneurons, which are situated in the spinal cord, and the frequency of the…

I. Key Points • Evidence from animal studies supports a causal relationship between intravenous and inhaled anesthetic exposure and brain development, triggering increased apoptosis, with negative neurocognitive and behavioral outcomes. • All these negative events take place during a high vulnerability period on brain development known as “brain spurt”. • Normally, 70% of neurons will undergo apoptosis during brain development. Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate receptor modulation…

Without curious minds, much would not have changed in the world. Curiosity may have killed the cat but not before providing some answers. Despite the infinite volume of questions one could ask, it becomes hard to come up with a question interesting enough to pursue beyond a few google searched answers. With information so easily accessible, hunting for answers isn’t always very difficult and yet, when prompted to answer them, sometimes we still draw blanks. During tests, people can get stuck on…

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a disease or autoimmune disorder which affects the central nervous system of an individual; the brain and spinal cord. Though not much is known of the cause of MS, researchers believe that Multiple Sclerosis causes the body’s immune system to attack the myelin sheath. The myelin sheaths are an insulating coating around the nerve cells, consisting of a mixture of proteins and phospholipids, which help to increase the speed at which nerve impulses are conducted. As the…