Essays Tagged: "Central nervous system"
HALLUCINOGEN
HALLUCINOGEN. While many drugs speed up or depress the central nervous system, there is a class of drugs that distorts how we feel, hear, see, smell, taste ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Ritalin
ten? Or does society just want a convenient way to solve a complicated problem. Ritalin is a central nervous system stimulant that is somewhat similar to amphetamines. It was created in 1955, c ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
This essay tells you: What Alcoholism Is, What Are It's Side Effects?, and Why To Avoid It.
y tissue.Alcohol is not healthy. Moderate and high doses of alcohol dishearten the functions of the central nervous system, including the brain (the higher the alcohol level, the greater the impairmen ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Multiple Sclerosis.
sease so it can be brought to the attention of the nation.Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system. Itdestroys the fatty myelin sheath that insulates your nerve cells. Wit ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Imagination is the Highest Kite One can Fly
My family has a very close friend, named Alex Wannamaker who was born with a severely damaged central nervous system. This birth defect has left him somewhat paralyzed and confined to a wheelcha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The Effects of Stress, Alcohol Outcome Expectancies, Gender, Coping Styles, and Family Alcoholism on Alcohol Consumption
r (1956) as the Tension Reduction Hypothesis (TRW). It states that alcohol's sedative action on the central nervous system serves to reduce tension, and because tension reduction is reinforcing, peopl ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Rabies Virus
s enters small nerve ends around the site of the bite, and slowly travels up the nerve to reach the central nervous system (CNS) where it reproduces itself, and will then travel down nerves to the sal ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM)
cephalitis (EPM)Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a disease among horses that damages the Central Nervous System (CNS). If not treated, it can be deadly. The protozoan, Sarcocystis neurona, ... s that might be in their feed, hay, or water. Once ingested by the horse, S. neurona travels to the central nervous system. A horse can be infected, but not develop the disease. 50% of all horses in t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Parkinson's Disease...Everything you will ever need to know about Parkinson's Disease.
kinson's disease.Parkinson's disease is a very serious disease. It is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system that results from degeneration of nerve cells in a region of the brain that c ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The Effect of Caffeine on Reactions
l happen because caffeine is a stimulant. This drug increases the blood pressure and stimulates the central nervous system, this also stimulates the action of the heart and lungs. This stimulant speed ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
HIV/AIDS - Description, causes, statistics etc.
ytes) and cells of the organs (bone marrow, spleen, liver, and lymph glands). It affects the lungs, central nervous system and gastrointestinal system. People begin with having the HIV virus. An HIV i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
This essay is about Jonas Salk, so the title is "Jonas Salk."
Polio is a viral infection of humans that occasionally spreads to the central nervous system. Once this happens, permanent muscle paralysis development often occurs. Thes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Fetal Alchol Syndrome
rink during pregnancy. This affects the development of the fetus causing physical malformations and central nervous system deficiencies. For physicians, diagnosing fetal alcohol syndrome can be diffic ... known. Regardless of whether or not fetal alcohol syndrome is diagnosed when the baby is born, the central nervous system effects can last a lifetime. As these children grow into adulthood, they usua ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
The aetiology, current and potential treatments of multiple sclerosis
IntroductionMultiple sclerosis is the most common human demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, and the most frequent cause of chronic neurological disability in young adul ... hen a person is under attack from MS, an inflammatory response is evoked in the white matter of the central nervous system. This inflammation occurs in random patches called ?laques? Subsequent to the ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The nervous system and its bodily functions.
ells) that that sends information to the brain to be analyzed. Neurons live both in and outside the central nervous system. Understanding how the neurons work is vital to understanding the nervous sys ... might not be connected to the right channel. There are three main parts of the nervous system: the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system. The brain and spinal cord makes up central nervou ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Diagnoisis of Attention Deficit Disorder and if Ritalin should be taken.
ADD see the world more clearly" ( Hallowell 235 ).Ritalin is methylphenidate, which stimulates the central nervous system. It is used to help people ADD or ADHD. Ritalin calms them and helps them foc ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
What is OxyContin.
e named product for the generic narcotic oxycodone hydrochloride, an opiate agonist. Oxycodone is a central nervous system depressant, a very effective medication for mild to severe pain.A 40 mg table ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Aicardi Syndrome: a rare yet intimidating X-linked genetic disorder.
zle to the scientists of today. The human brain is a highly delicate mechanism found as part of the central nervous system. Its responsibilities include monitoring and regulating the activities carrie ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Human Nervous System.
In the central nervous system, the brain and the spinal cord are the two main parts. The brain and spinal c ... cushions the brain and spinal column. The brain contains four ventricles filled with the fluid; the central canal is filled around spinal column.The brain has three major parts, cerebellum, cerebrum, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Alcoholism and its affects.
loss of appetite, vitamin deficiencies, stomach ailments, sexual impotence, liver damage, heart and central nervous system damage, and memory loss.Alcohol blocks the messages going to your brain and a ... your brain and alters your perceptions and emotions, vision, hearing, and coordination.Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant. It affects virtually every organ in the body and chronic use can ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol