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Stimulants On Your Consciousness 5 Ht Similarly Dopamine
693 wordsThe Effects of Stimulants on Your Consciousness A stimulant is a drug that stimulates your body and mind activity. Some of the most commonly used stimulants are caffeine, cocaine, amphetamines, and Ecstasy (MDMA, methylenedioxyamphetamines). Out of the above listed caffeine is the most widely used and has very mild side effects. Caffeine is found in coffee, teas, soda, and chocolate. Since we all know a lot about caffeine I will not be discussing it. However I will be covering my two personal fa...
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Anti Psychotic Drugs Neurodegenerative Diseases
1,169 words1. Memory Mechanism Found At Nerve Cell Connections In The Brain Date published: May 19, 2000 2. Drug Psychotherapy Combo Found Highly Effective in Depression Study Date published: May 24, 2000 3. Suckling Behavior of Newborn Rats Can Be Manipulated Through Use of Scents, Date published: May 29, 2000 4. Study Opens Doors to Significant Changes in Medications for Schizophrenia Date published: June 16, 2000 5. New Scientific Theory May Change How Treatments for Inherited Neurodegenerative Disease ...
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Neuromuscular Junction Nerve Impulses
973 wordsTransmitter Molecule Derived From Site of Synthesis Acetylcholine Choline CNS, parasympathetic nerves 5 -Hydroxytryptamine (5 -HT) Tryptophan CNS, chromatin cells of the gut, enteric cells Tyrosine adrenal medulla, some CNS cells Adenosine ATP CNS, peripheral nerves ATP sympathetic, sensory and enteric nerves Nitric oxide, NO Arginine CNS, gastrointestinal tract Many other neurotransmitters are derived from precursor proteins, the so-called peptide neurotransmitters. As many as 50 different pept...
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Shown In Figure Neuromuscular Junction
1,660 wordsProteins involved in formation of the neuromuscular junction The neuromuscular junction is a specialized junction, where a motor nerve forms its synaptic terminal with a muscle fibre, one of many fibres that make up a whole muscle. The mature neuromuscular junction is composed of three types of cells - a motor nerve terminal, a muscle fibre and a Schwann cell covering the junction. All three of these cells are highly differentiated and specialized for their functions (Kandel 2000, p. 1089). The ...
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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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Short Term Memory Long Term Memory
1,246 wordsREVIEW OF LITERATURE A person wakes up in the morning, brushes his teeth, takes a shower, puts on his clothes, and starts his day. What would happen if there weren t such thing as memory? People might not be able to get ready every morning to start their day. Why? Because memory allows people to remember what they have done or not done. Memory is the ability to remember something that has been learned or experienced. So, without it, people wouldn t be able to remember anything. They might not br...
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Nature And Nurture Genetic Factors
514 wordsDavid Reimer is a victim of a circumcision operation that went horribly wrong. Then the doctors decided to turn David into a female. The doctor decided that reassigning sex was easy. He figured that nurturing, not nature, determined psychological behavior. David is living proof of how wrong that assumption was. David grew up being raised as a female when he was born a male. Now David has encountered disastrous affects in his life because of that horrible decision. Nature versus nurture or geneti...
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Poor Education People
719 wordsThe debate over the importance of nature verses the importance of nurture has been going on since the beginning of modern science. Both sides of the argument have undeniably good points proving that that influence is more important than the other. Both nature and nurture are important because they both help in shaping personality. Of course nature can only go so far, because it is unalterable. The environment around a person, on the other hand, is ever-changing offering more opportunity for grow...
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Mad Cow Disease Anti Psychotic Drugs
2,398 wordsTable of contents 1. Memory Mechanism Found At Nerve Cell Connections In The Brain Source: Science Daily Date published: May 19, 2000 2. Drug Psychotherapy Combo Found Highly Effective in Depression Study Source: Science Daily Date published: May 24, 2000 3. Suckling Behavior of Newborn Rats Can Be Manipulated Through Use of Scents, New Research Shows Source: Science Daily Date published: May 29, 2000 4. Study Opens Doors to Significant Changes in Medications for Schizophrenia Source: Science Da...
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Rem Sleep Subconscious Mind
550 wordsI dont use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. (Escher) Why do we dream? Are they instructions from the spiritual world or just deep, hidden wishes that can be used to unlock the secrets of the unconscious mind? Nobody knows for sure. One theory that is prevalent today is that dreams result from the physiological exercise of the synapses of the brain. There is no proven fact on why we dream, which is why there are so many theories on the topic. There is Freud's theory that dreams carry our ...
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Neuromuscular Junction Nerve Impulses
1,028 wordsTransmitter Molecule Derived From Site of Synthesis Acetylcholine Choline CNS, parasympathetic nerves Serotonin 5 -Hydroxytryptamine (5 -HT) Tryptophan CNS, chromatin cells of the gut, enteric cells GABA Glutamate CNS Glutamate CNS Aspartate CNS Glycine spinal cord Histamine Histidine hypothalamus Epinephrine synthesis pathway Tyrosine adrenal medulla, some CNS cells Norpinephrine synthesis pathway Tyrosine CNS, sympathetic nerves Dopamine synthesis pathway Tyrosine CNS Adenosine ATP CNS, periph...
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