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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 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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Central Nervous System Salk Vaccine
360 wordsPOLIOMYELITIS- an infectious virus of the central nervous system. SYMPTOMS- FATIGUE, HEADACHE, FEVER, SORE THROAT, MUSCLE PAIN, VOMITING, CONSTIPATION, STIFFNESS OF NECK (MENINGITIS), MUSCLE PARALYSIS, AFFECTED- CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, NERVE TISSUE (MOTOR NEURONS), BRAIN, LEGS, ARMS, MUSCLES, RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, STOMACH & THROAT (THE VIRUS ENTRY - Polio is excreted in feces and spreads in contaminated water, food, hands and eating utensils to unaffected patients. The virus enters its victims in ...
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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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York Harper Collins Peripheral Nervous System
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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Mad Cow Disease Central Nervous System
1,747 wordsPrions have been Prions Prions Prions have been a mistery for scientists from the day they where discovered. Prions act like viruses but they are not. Their structure and chemistry are unknown. They are believed to be proteins but that is yet to be completely proved. Prion stands for? proteinaceous infectious particles? . Prions are known to cause many diseases involved with nervous systems like the brain. They are the ones that cause the well known? mad cow? disease in Britain and? scrapie? for...
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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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Attention Deficit Disorder Common Side Effects
1,560 wordsWhat if you tried really hard at accomplishing a task and no matter how hard you tried, you just could not finish what you started. That would be pretty frustrating, right? Well surprisingly enough this is a common feeling for four to nine percent of Americans. This feeling is caused by a disorder called Attention Deficit Disorder or more commonly known as ADD. Most everyone has heard of ADD but most people really don t know what it is or even what it stands for, and when most people think of AD...
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Second Hand Smoke Short Term Effects
2,130 wordsPsychology is the scientific study of human and animal behavior. It is made of theories and tries to prove why we behave the way we do, our mental processes, our emotions, and our actions. In this writing assignment I will discuss why some people choose to behave so outrageous that we see it as abnormal self-destructive behavior and why others try to fit in this society and follow the rules. In the United States there's people from all over the world from different cultures and traditions. I wil...
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Central Nervous System Multiple Sclerosis
974 wordsMultiple Sclerosis is a disorder of the central nervous system involving decreased nerve function associated with the formation of scars on the covering of nerve cells. Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects approximately 1 out of 1, 600 people. Women are affected about 60 % of the time. The disorder most commonly begins between 20 to 40 years old. MS is one of the major causes of disability in adults under age 65. Multiple sclerosis involves repeated episodes of inflammation of nervous tissue in any a...
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