Essays Tagged: "nerve cells"

Marajana

ore of it to get the high in which they desire. It effects your brain by making the THC disrupt the nerve cells in the part of the brain where memories are formed. This makes it harder for the user to ...

(4 pages) 57 0 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Alzheimer's Disease, "The Disease of the Century". 7 page paper on the history, causes, effects and research on the disease. Includes citation in apa format

deteriorating mental health for many years before her death. Alzheimer noticed a disorganization of nerve cells in her cerebral cortex, the area of the brain responsible for controlling memory and rea ... There were two oddities he found. The first was an accumulation of cellular debris surrounding the nerves he called this senile plaque. The second oddity were groups of nerves that were bunched and t ...

(6 pages) 511 1 3.8 Mar/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

AIDS

o-called neuropsychiatric abnormalities, or psychological disturbances caused by physical damage to nerve cells.Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, through mid-1992, more than 190,000 AI ... w well established that HIV can exist and proliferate within the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. This results in a broad range of symptoms, including meningoencephalitis (see ENCEPHALITIS) ...

(12 pages) 245 0 4.2 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Alzheimers Disease

ctims incapable of caring for themselves.What happens to the brain in Alzheimers Disease? In AD The nerve cells in the part of the brain that controls memory, thinking, are damaged, interrupting the p ... s. The cells develop distinctive changes that are called neuritic plaques (clusters of degenerating nerve cell ends) and neurofibrillary tangles (masses of twisted filaments which accumulate in previo ...

(2 pages) 109 0 3.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

What is the disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclrosis?

What is the Disease?ALS is an extremely deadly disease affecting the nerve cells that control the victim's voluntary muscles. These nerves shrink and eventually die, lea ...

(4 pages) 61 0 3.4 Dec/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Multiple Sclerosis.

a disease of the central nervous system. Itdestroys the fatty myelin sheath that insulates your nerve cells. Withoutthis insulation, nerve communication is disrupted. The body then makes this ... ee tests are performed to measure thetime it takes for impulses to travel through your brain and nerves. Thesetests are known separately as the Visual Evoked Potential Test, the AuditoryEvo ...

(4 pages) 114 0 4.2 Apr/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Alzheimer's, a progressive and irreversible brain disease

ferences were present when comparing the normal brain to the Alzheimer's brain. There was a loss of nerve cells from the Cerebral Cortex in the Alzheimer's victim. Approximately ten percent of the neu ... ngles are also found in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. They are found within the cell bodies of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other diseases that ...

(19 pages) 256 1 3.8 Dec/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

research paper on marijuana

uses the endocannabinoids, but they suspect that these molecules strengthen the connections between nerve cells, thus, strengthening memory abilities.5)When cannabinoids are abundant, everything is ma ...

(5 pages) 306 1 3.1 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Neural Networks

r95, Ga93).        Artificial neural networks take their name from the networks of nerve cells in the brain. Although a great deal of biological detail is eliminated in these computi ...

(12 pages) 206 2 4.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Parkinson's Disease...Everything you will ever need to know about Parkinson's Disease.

sease. It is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system that results from degeneration of nerve cells in a region of the brain that controls movement. This degeneration creates a shortage of ...

(3 pages) 138 1 2.4 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

What is Glaucoma?

oma is caused by the pressure inside the eye being elevated causing lack of blood flow to the optic nerve, thereby causing the vision loss. There are two main types of glaucoma. There is chronic simpl ... t is needed to preserve the vision. The more common of the two is chronic simple or open-angle. The nerve cells that are lost due to glaucoma are called ganglion cells. Each of these cells has a long ...

(5 pages) 34 0 3.4 Feb/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Huntington's Disease

and psychiatric problems. Huntington's Disease is a progressive disorder involving degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. It is one of the more common inherited brain disorders. About 25,000 Ameri ...

(2 pages) 58 0 5.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The nervous system and its bodily functions.

death rates from heart disease, stroke, accidents, etc. The nervous system is a network of neurons (nerve cells) that that sends information to the brain to be analyzed. Neurons live both in and outsi ... s system. Neurons The neuron has two important structures called the dendrite and axon, also called nerve fibers. The dendrites are like tentacles that sprout from the cell and the axon is one long ex ...

(8 pages) 207 0 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Facts about Marijuana

a and THC is also associated with impaired attention and memory in school. THC damages and destroys nerve cells and causes other changes in the hippocampus. Marijuana in the brain causes users have du ...

(3 pages) 48 1 3.6 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

The bio-psychological approaches to understanding mental events and behaviour result in more conclusive findings than using a social approach and/or examining environmental factors. Discuss.

ised that identity and personal characteristics can be attributed to the make up of the individuals nerve cells and their associated molecules. Crick therefore believes that all mental events and beha ...

(9 pages) 221 2 3.9 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The effects of marijuana on the Human brain.

0 chemicals and when the plant is smoked or vaporized the heat produces many more. Receptors in the nerve cells of the brain receive these chemicals and the chemicals cause the nerve cell to change in ...

(2 pages) 64 0 3.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Marijuana effects of marijuana an dwhat they could do

a and THC is also associated with impaired attention and memory in school. THC damages and destroys nerve cells and causes other changes in the hippocampus. Marijuana in the brain causes users have du ...

(3 pages) 126 1 4.6 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Mixed Short Biology Essays.

gans that produce hormones into the bloodstream. The nervous system carries messages in the form or nerve impulses throughout the body. Hormones and nerve impulses can bring about changes in the organ ... regulatory system and help maintain homeostasis within the body. The nervous system is a network of nerve cells that carry electrochemical impulses through nerve fibers throughout the body. It regulat ...

(4 pages) 109 0 4.3 Jun/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

What is cholesterol?

anes. Scientists have now found to their surprise that cholesterol may also regulate when and where nerve cells in the brain form the vital junctions known as synapses.*Cholesterol is a waxy fat that ...

(7 pages) 100 0 3.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Looks and disabilitys in businesses.

oluntary movement in a part of the human body, caused by disease or injury anywhere along the motor-nerve path from the brain to the muscle fiber. Paralysis may result from injury, poisoning, infectio ... occluded blood vessels, or tumors. Occasionally paralysis is due to congenital deficiency in motor-nerve development. Permanent paralysis results from extensive damage to nerve cells or to a nerve tr ...

(20 pages) 240 0 4.6 Oct/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers