Essays Tagged: "Spinal cord"
A simple essay on multiple sclerosis.
Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, is a disease causing demylination of the white matter in the spinal cord and brain. The nerve damage slows, blocks or distorts transmission of nerve impulses. MS ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Phantom limb phenomena
For years, the favored explanation was, that the cut nerve endings continue to send impulses up the spinal cord to the brain. This explanation was repealed when the neurosurgeons cut just above the ne ... receptors of the neurons are stimulated, an electrical impulse is generated. It travels through the spinal cord, to the brain stem. This electrical impulse travels further to the relay station - thala ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Simple essay on Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis, also known as MS, is a disease causing demylination of the white matter in the spinal cord and brain. The nerve damage slows, blocks or distorts transmission of nerve impulses. MS ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The aetiology, current and potential treatments of multiple sclerosis
ormation, myelin (a fatty covering which surrounds and insulates nerve cell fibres in the brain and spinal cord) is destroyed. As myelin is responsible for facilitating the smooth and high-speed trans ... high-speed transmission of the impulse along the axon, electrochemical messaging between the brain, spinal cord, and indeed the rest of the body will be interrupted when it is damaged. This interrupti ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Developmental Psychology (physical, cognitive, and psychosocial ).
r weeks, when the neural plate folds up to form the neural tube. The bottom of the tube becomes the spinal cord. "Lumps" then emerge at the top of the tube and form the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Human Nervous System.
In the central nervous system, the brain and the spinal cord are the two main parts. The brain and spinal cord are protected by bone. The skull enclo ... brain and spinal cord are protected by bone. The skull encloses the brain, and the vertebrae of the spinal column surround the spinal cord. The brain and spinal cord are also covered and protected by ... rain and spinal cord are also covered and protected by 3 tough membranes called menings. The cerebrospinal fluid cushions the brain and spinal column. The brain contains four ventricles filled with th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
The cons of abortion.
tion, so therefore a fetus is a distinct organism. At 3 weeks of pregnancy nerve growth begins, the spinal cord begins to develop and at the end of the spinal cord is a small mass that will be formed ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
Discusses the symptoms, possible treatments and famous cases of ALS.
a life threatening neurodegenerative disease. ALS occurs when specific nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary movement gradually degenerate. It could be a result of viral infe ... on liquids and food, and difficulty controlling emotions. The lower motor units are located in the spinal cord. When the lower motor neurons are affected, signs are muscle twitching, muscle cramps, w ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
What role do Glia cells play in the neural functioning?
nervous system are organised into two different parts, the central nervous system constituted with spinal cord and brain, and the periphery nervous system is dived into two branch's: the somatic nerv ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
This was given as a speech.
the crash therefore preventing their head from snapping forward and causing permanent damage to the spinal cord or even death.There is no evidence to suggest that just because a child's feet hit the b ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
This is a report on the importance of using a saftey belt. I handed this in for my health class and rceived a 100.
over a wide area of the body, allowing the body to slow down gradually, and Protecting the head and spinal cord. Safety belts are the most effective means of saving lives and reducing serious injuries ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
This essay is about Meningitis. It Has answers to everthing you need to know about meningitis its effects, causes, giving very in depth infromation.
MeningitisMeningitis is an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. People sometimes refer to it as spinal meningiti ... rough poor hygiene or polluted water.In blood, infection is fought off by white blood cells. In the spinal fluid, there are no white blood cells...and there is nothing there to fight off infection. On ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
DRUGS. (MDMA,Acid, Roofies..ect.)
imes called Georgia Home boy, liquid ecstacy, or G. GHB slows the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord), causing a sedative effect. It is oderless and colorless and can be easily slipped into ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
The Brain
is continuous with the pons and the midbrain. At the bottom it makes a gradual transition into the spinal cord. Sensory and motor nerve fibers connecting the brain and the rest of the body cross over ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
West Nile Virus
0s. The virus became recognized as a cause of severe human meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the spinal cord and brain) in elderly patients during an outbreak in Israel in 1957. Equine disease was ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Tailbone fracture
of the pelvic organs. More importantly the tailbone contains tissue that helpsprotect the brain and spinal cord.A tailbone fracture is often caused by falling into a sitting position on thetailbone. I ... tailbone fracture can lead to complicationsalmost anywhere in the body due to the connection of the spinal cord andcoccyx. Headaches are very common after damage to this area. It is crucial toprotect ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Neurons, Hormones, and the Brain. 49 Definitions!
Central nervous system (CNS) - The portion of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.Spinal cord - A collection of neurons and supportve tissue running from the base of ... running from the base of the brain down the center of the back, protected by a column of bones (the spinal column)Peripheral nervous system (PNS) - All portions of the nervous system outside the b ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Polio
ns and some primates. Three closely related viruses cause polio. In serious cases Polio attacks the spinal cord and brain stem and eventually causes paralysis. In Polio the muscular, brain and nervous ... the patient has the beginning of neurological symptoms, indicating that the virus has infected the spinal cord. Acute Polio leaves the patient with permanent motor impairment ranging from mild muscul ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
The Human Brain
n of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of what is known as gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Nervous System
tes the body's responses to internal and external stimuli. In vertebrates it consists of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, ganglia, and parts of the receptor and effector organs.Your nervous system i ... omposed of the central nervous system, the cranial nerves, and the peripheral nerves. The brain and spinal cord together form the central nervous system. The cranial nerves connect the brain to the he ...
Subjects: Science Essays