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The Central Nervous System

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The human brain is the command center of the central nervous system it receives input from the sensory organs and sends outputs to the muscles. The human brain also has the same basic structure as other mammal brains, but is larger in relation to body size, and at times it is invalided by diseases that infect the control center of the brain.Today I am going to write about the three major divisions of the brain, diseases, that affect the brain , animals vs human brain. Also, weather or not the brain can be replaced by an artificial organ. The forebrain regulates the mental process. The first structure of the forebrain is the limbic system which plays a role in fear and aggression and the hippocampus plays a role in a transfer of information …show more content…

The midbrain functions include everyday movement, eye movement, hearing and visual, Also the midbrain is made up of the tecum and the tegmentum. The tegmentum is the brainstem you can find it between the ventricular system and the distinctive basal. So, basically the tegmentum is the floor of the midbrain and the tecum forms the ceiling. Last, the hindbrain includes the medulla, the pons, and cerebellum. Which the medulla is right beside the spinal cord. Which contains outsides functions like breathing, and blood flow. So the medulla controls very important functions. The pons gives signs to the forebrain. Which this includes hearing, taste, bladder control, ect. The cerebellum detects motor movement like coordination, balance, speech. There are alot of diseases that are associated with the brain. Like the diseases called neurodegenerative. Neurodegenerative is the disease that makes your brain and nerves become worse over a period of time. It makes your personality different and causes a lot of confusion. It also destroys your brain tissue and your nerves. This disease is very serious to have their is a lot of people that suffer from it all across the …show more content…

Multiple sclerosis affects the spinal cord and the brain. There's a lot of ways to determine if you have multiple sclerosis because a lot of people might not know the symptoms of it until it is to late. Which that includes weakness ,not having the energy to get up and do anything, bladder issues, vision get very blurry, pain as in your muscles and neurologic. My grandmother has Multiple Sclerosis and at first she had some of these symptoms she didn't understand why until she went to the doctor. It's a very hard disease to handle.
Another disease is the Huntington disease (HD). The Huntington disease is genetic which it breakdowns the nervous. It also has no cure because it is genetic. Which, that means for example if my mother had it when I am born I have a 50 percent chance of getting it It affects your physical and mental ways threw a period of time. Threw out the world there are 30,000 people with the disease and 200,000 with the change of having the Huntington disease. But unfortunately, The brain is the only organ that cannot be replaced by an artificial organ. Because it to big of a risk to do that yes they can fix things in your brain. Like for example let's say you have a tumor and they need to take a piece of that out or a percent of your brain they can do

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