Neurobiology

The first introduction of Caenorhabditis elegans (C.elegans) was in the early 1960s, by Sydney Brenner who used it as a model system to explore the genetics dissections of development, neurobiology and behaviour; he won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on C.elegans. The C.elegans model specialises in having a short life span, retaining a low maintenance cost and its ability to grow the organism in a large population, and a small concern for animal rights issues. Each of these features is a key

completely engaged in learning. Not much has changed in the past 18 years as I have spent my life in the pursuit of knowledge. For me, learning has always been about achieving a greater understanding of the world (from the life of Elizabeth II to the neurobiology of junk food addiction) and using that understanding to try to find my place. I believe that UChicago’s philosophy about learning—which prioritizes learning how to think, challenging assumptions, and enriching the world with knowledge—aligns perfectly

integrated for someone who desires to be a psychologist. With those skills, I think I am well suited to pursue a psychology degree at your university. In IBDP Biology High-Level class, my teacher has taught us a little about neurobiology. Through learning neurobiology, I know that some of the predisposed mental illnesses such as addiction are caused by genetics. After learning more about genetics and how it has a positive correlation with mental illness, I am even more inclined to offer a helping

feelings, and memories to a more conscious level of understanding is central to play therapy. I thought the readings this week were quite different content wise. Theresa A. Kestly’s work, “The Interpersonal Neurobiology of Play” had a more scientific take, allowing us to understand the neurobiology behind play and play experiences. Kestly discusses Panksepp’s Motivational Circuits, Porges Polyvagal Theory, the importance of Infant-Parent play and regulation, play in attachment terms, play in regards

Nehal, Mohammad and Afzal, Mohammad. (2013). “Evolution of Human Language – A Biolinguistic, Biosemiotic and Neurobiological Perspective”; Language in India, ISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 13:6, June 2013. Précis by Samantha Sutton, December 2, 2015 TOPIC In this article there are several depictions of how language has come about and how language has formed not only in humans but in the animal kingdom as well. Nehal and Afzal use several other scholars work in defining their research on the topic

to produce pleasure and to reduce painful affects is employed in a pattern that is characterized by two key features: (1) recurrent failure to control the behavior, and (2) continuation of the behavior despite significant harmful consequences.” (Neurobiology of addiction: An integrative review 2007 pg. 270) Marc Potenza, who did a phenomenal amount of research on behavioral addictions, believes that components of addictions are found to have the following affects: continued involvement in the behavior

Drug addiction: Neuro-Behavioral Approach ChanMee Bae University of Washington, Seattle PSYCH 448F Autumn2015 Abstract In this paper, I am going to summarize how chronic drug use affects the function of the brain and how this leads to the aberrant behavioral manifestations of addiction. (Volkow & Li, 2005) A view of drug addiction has been changed from the ‘choices’ of the addicted individuals to the dysfunction of brain. The drug addiction may be regarded as the disease of the brain reward system

Substance Abuse in Adolescents The topic of this paper will be substance abuse in adolescents. I will mainly focus on family structure, neurobiology, prevention, and treatment of the adolescents. I decided to research this topic because many of my acquaintances and family members have had to deal with substance abuse, especially during their adolescent phase. The driving point for me was that I wanted to understand why substance abuse in adolescents kept occurring and how I could help make the adolescents

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As we know, the practice of sexual behavior is perceived differently by diverse worldviews and consists of a wide range of activities (Hyde & DeLamater, 2014). There has been a number of debates on whether or not the nature of human sexuality can be developed through genetics, imitated through socialization, influenced by unconscious decisions or if it can be altered after childhood. There are a variety of theories that have been created to help understand the uncertainty of how human sexuality is