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Central Nervous System Part Of The Brain
5,865 wordsWhen we discuss our brain, we usually focus on the brains ability to think. That task alone is extremely complex and involved, but the brain also has many other tasks. Most of the time the brain is on autopilot, meaning that most of the activities preformed are just automatic. Our five senses; sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell, are automatically preformed in our brains. We don't have to think about how something sounds, we just hear it and we then interpret that sound. The largest area of ou...
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Central Nervous System Secondary Symptoms
361 wordsI chose the topic of MS because three years ago my mother was diagnosed with this disease. Not a lot of people know very much about MS. MS stands for multiple sclerosis. It is a very disabling disease that I have learned a lot about over the past few years. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and even sometimes disabling disease of the central nervous system. MS can suddenly attack your body, and often it is misdiagnosed. There are many symptoms to MS. A few initial ones are difficultly walking, abn...
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Central Nervous System Psychedelic Drugs
676 wordsA Hallucinogen is defined as a substance that causes excitation of the central nervous system, characterized by hallucination. Mood change, anxiety, sensory distortion, delusion, depersonalization; increased pulse, temperature, increased blood pressure, and dilation of the pupils are the many effects that occur. Psychic dependence may occur, and depressive or suicidal psychotic states may result from the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances. Some kinds of hallucinogens are lysergic acid, commo...
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Central Nervous System Three Years
546 wordsSigmund Freud was born in Freiberg, which is now Per, Czech Republic. On May 6, 1856 at the age of three years old his family, was fleeing from the anti-Semitic riots that were rampant in Freiberg. They moved to Leipzig shortly after, they settled in Vienna, where Freud remained for most of his life, and educated at Vienna University. Since Freud's childhood he wanted to be involved in law, he decided to study medicine just before he went Vienna University in 1873. Inspired by the scientific inv...
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Central Nervous System Psychological Dependence
636 wordsHOW TAKEN: SNIFFED, INJECTED OR SWALLOWED DANGERS OF LONG TERM USE: DEPRESSION, CONVULSIONS POTENTIAL ORGANIC DAMAGE: YES (Conflict of opinion among experts) Cocaine is a powerful central nervous system stimulant that heightens alertness, inhibits appetite and the need for sleep, and provides intense feelings of pleasure. It is prepared from the leaf of the Erythroxylon coca bush, which grows primarily in Peru and Bolivia. Pure cocaine was first extracted and identified by a German chemist, Albe...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
2,024 wordsNow of course with the holidays coming up everyone knows to drink and behave responsibly. Everyone including the young mothers who are carrying children. They know all about the physical and cognitive effects that a drink may have on their fetus. According to health surveys 19 percent of 4 million mothers used some form of alcohol in their prenatal phase, in 1992. And this number is continually increasing, making Fetal Alcohol Syndrome one of the leading causes of birth defects in the United Sta...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Blood Alcohol Level
1,595 wordsWhat can happen to a fetus when a pregnant women drinks heavily during her pregnancy? It can lead to permanent, irreversible and incurable effects that will bring a lifetime of pain for both the child and the family. These permanent and unchangeable effects arise from a fetus attaining fetal alcohol syndrome from its mother. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of malformations and disabilities resulting from a pregnant woman drinking heavily during her pregnancy. FAS is unique in that effe...
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Central Nervous System Thyroid Gland
523 wordsHow do humans react to the ferocious roar of the bear? Why do humans have headaches and stress out when come upon to do certain tasks? The environment, genes and chromosomes, and the central nervous system are factors to answer these questions. The human psychological characteristics and behavior are built by a combination of these factors. Psychologists use these factors to determine peoples psychological makeup and behavior. However, a persons characteristics come primarily from their genes. F...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Central Nervous System
1,679 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) refers to a group of physical and mental birth defects resulting from a women's drinking alcohol heavily or at crucial stages during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was first named and treated in the late 1960 's. This condition results from the toxic effect of alcohol and its chemical factors on the developing fetus. FAS is the leading cause of mental retardation occurring in 1 out of every 750 births. The frequency of FAS occurs about 1. 9 times out of every 1000...
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Biological Study Of Gotu Kola Plant
832 wordsGotu Kola is a slender, creeping plant that grows commonly in swampy areas of India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, South Africa and the tropics. Its fan shaped leaves are about the size of an old British penny - hence its common names Indian pennyworth, marsh penny and water pennyworth. It is regarded as one of the most spiritual and rejuvenating herbs in Ayurveda and is used to improve meditation. It is said to develop the crown chakra, the energy center at the top of the head, and to balance the righ...
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Central Nervous System Psychological Dependence
1,765 wordsDrug dependence is psychological and sometimes physical need to use a drug in order to experience psychological or physical effects. Psychological addiction is more difficult to treat than the physical one and often continues after the physical addiction has been dealt with. Each day there are a lot of new drug addicts, but also there are a lot of those who die because of using this evil, white pleasure. Drug addiction has several forms in expressing the dependency. Also there are a lot of diffe...
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Central Nervous System Motor Control
1,145 wordsSport Skill Sports skill learning has always been concerned with the acquisition of new skills with practice. This emphasis has been blended somewhat with the field of motor control, so that the ideas about the how skills are learned and particularly how they are performed differently after practice were an important emphasis. The concern has been to understand the principles by which these new skills were acquired and to develop theories that would account for them. For example, Swimming is a c...
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Central Nervous System Rem Sleep
714 wordsNarcolepsy Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder of sleep regulation, characterized by overwhelming and excessive periods of sleepiness during the daytime, which can last from 10 to 20 minutes. Such periods of sleepiness are mostly sudden, brief; they take place without any special warning, may repeat during the day and, as a rule, are irresistible. In other words, a person, who suffers narcolepsy, is under the danger of sudden attacks of sleepiness during the daytime, even after good ni...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
887 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Alcohol consumption has always been a serious public health problem that negatively affects all organs and functions of the human organism. During the last several decades the problem has attracted much attention of the society, as it was discovered that consumption of alcohol by pregnant women may cause development of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome that leads to fatal malfunctions of practically all systems of unborn babies that can not be treated. Whenever a pregnant woman decid...
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1,212 wordsAnalysis of the Anti-psychiatric Approach or Perspective to Schizophrenia and the Conventional Approach There are several approaches of studying and evaluating the concept of schizophrenia that help scholars get deeper insights of the disease and find possible better solutions. The nervous system, as described in Tabers Cyclopedia Dictionary, is a system of extremely delicate nerve cells, elaborately interlaced with each other. More specifically, it functions to regulate and coordinate body acti...
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Central Nervous System Anabolic Steroids
1,483 wordsDrug Drug Abuse Drug Abuse Drug abuse is the nonmedical use of a drug that interferes with a healthy and productive life. Drug abuse occurs from the rich to the poor and among young people as well as adults. Any drug may be abused, including alcohol and medications prescribed by a doctor. After continued use of certain drugs, some people develop drug dependence. Drug dependence can be psychological, physical, or both. A person with a psychological dependence craves a drug for the feeling of well...
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Central Nervous System Lasting Effect
428 wordsWhen athletes use drugs In many schools athletes are required to sign a contract in order to play sports. The contracts include of many rules and regulations that prohibit activities that will jeopardize the athletes performance. The use of drugs and alcohol are strictly forbidden. Vandalism and other actions that would result in any type of illegal happenings is also banned. The main problem with the contracts is that the students dont always obey them. Many athletes will still go out and party...
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Central Nervous System Enhancing Drugs
1,582 wordsDrugs in Football: Making an Appropriate Decision Breaking the rules in football, because of drug use, is causing physical and mental damage to athletes and those who associate with them. It is also setting a bad example for the youth of America. There is just too many available drugs for football players today. For football players, drugs are easy to obtain. Too easy to obtain. Bill Gilbert, a Sports Illustrated writer, said, they do not have to stand around in waiting rooms, at pharmacy counte...
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High Blood Pressure Low Self Esteem
2,343 wordsBulimia Eating Disorders Eating Disorders Bulimia is an illness characterized by uncontrolled episodes of overeating usually followed by self-induced vomiting or other purging. Alternative names for Bulimia are Bulimia Nervosa, Binge-Purge Behavior, and also Eating Disorders. In bulimia, eating binges may occur as often as several times a day. Induced vomiting known as purging allows the eating to continue without the weight gain; it may continue until interrupted by sleep, abdominal pain, or th...
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