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Brain Damage Body Weight
1,503 wordsAlterations in feeding behaviour of female rats at varying phases of their reproductive sequence as a result of lesions in various parts of the amygdala The topic of this proposed research is the role of the amygdala in hunger and satiety following damage in female infant and adult rats as a result of sexual and maternal activity. Data will be collected from 200 female albino rats, 50 infants and 150 adults of the Sprague-Dawley strain. Hunger and satiety will be analysed following feeding behav...
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Randomly Assigned Sexual Maturity
1,589 words... data (See Table. 1). However the main independent variable is of reproductive status. This has 4 levels: (1) 6 weeks of age or younger (therefore not sexually mature) (2) 4 months and above (undergoing usual reproductive cycles) The dependant variable differs within each experiment with consideration of the behaviour under inspection. The variable concerning the reproductive aspect of the rats is based on the following specifics: &# 61607; Rats reach sexual maturity at 5 weeks of age &# 6160...
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Central Nervous System Spinal Cord
2,118 words... its. The initial symptom of MS is often blurred or double vision, red-green color distortion, or even blindness in one eye. (Brunnscheiler) Inexplicably, visual problems tend to clear up in the later stages of MS. Inflammatory problems of the optic nerve may be diagnosed as retro bulbar or optic neuritis. Fifty-five percent of MS patients will have an attack of optic neuritis at some time or other and it will be the first symptom of MS in approximately 15 percent. This has led to general rec...
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Central Nervous System White Blood Cells
1,504 wordsThe name itself is revealing: multiple, more than one, and sclerosis, which refers to areas of sclerotic (scarred) tissue. Multiple sclerosis is a demyelinating disease of the white matter of the central nervous system. These areas of sclerosis, also referred to as lesions or plaques, occur in the white matter of the central nervous system. Gray matter consists primarily of nerve cells. Axons (nerve fibers) are the connections between the cell body and the muscles, sensory organs, and primary or...
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Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Cerebral Hemispheres
2,341 wordsWhat life is like with prospagnosia? Damage to the brain can result in many different types of abnormal behavior depending on the extent and area of injury. One area of significance, visual agnosia, was a term coined by Sigmund Freud to describe the inability to merge singular visual impressions into a comprehensive pattern (Kolb & Whishaw, 1996). This effect was seen to occur despite the individual having undiminished fundamental perceptual competency in areas like acuity and brightness discrim...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Herpes Simplex
1,254 wordsINTRODUCTION According Lab SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES INTRODUCTION According to the Websters? dictionary, a sexually transmitted disease, or commonly termed STD, can be defined as any of various diseases transmitted by direct sexual contacted that include classic venereal diseases (as syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid) and other diseases (as hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, giordiasis, and AIDS) that are often or sometimes contracted by other sexual means (Internet 3). This lab report will be deali...
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Chicken Pox Viral Infection
1,069 wordsChicken Pox Media CHICKEN POX Chicken Pox is a viral infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus, a type of herpes virus. It is contracted by contact with actual lesions or by respiratory secretions and there is a 10 - 21 day incubation period during which your child is developing the illness but does not show any symptoms and is not contagious (until the very last 1 or 2 days before the pox appear. ). Once the vesicles show up there are likely to be many more on the way for between 3 and 7 m...
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