Neurobiology

Procrastination: Habit or Disorder? "Procrastination is 'the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today.' " - Wayne Dyer (6) Universally common to college students, procrastination is often addressed as a bad habit. Yet, in most cases, this isn't a nuance, but a perpetual occurrence - no longer qualifying for the term "habit." Typically thought of as a behavioral trait, procrastination thrives on a cycle of blame shifting and avoidance. Falling victim to this "habit" myself, I embarked

Sara Hamlin Deena Albert Parks ATH 340 08 December 2015 Epilepsy Epilepsy is a neurological condition of the brain that is also known as seizure disorder causing an individual to have recurrent seizures (“Epilepsy and Seizures”). Epilepsy and seizures are often interchangeable when defining a neurological condition; both involve the nervous system. The primary difference is that epilepsy is a disorder and seizures are considered a symptom. An individual can experience changes in behavior and their

Introduction Imagine one day you walk into a room, in which everybody is talking and laughing but the only thing you can possibly hear is a very faint noise. How would you feel about your inability to communicate? About 13% the total U.S. population is deaf or hearing impaired (Harrington). It is impossible for them to go to clothing store without a deaf interpreter which makes them feel as not self-sufficient and isolated from the rest of the society. Past research has examined that by implementing

Take Ben Barres for example, a brilliant neuroscientist whose career spanned over 4 decades and consisted of revolutionary discoveries concerning glial cells and their function in the brain. Barres was a professor of neurobiology at Stanford, having earned his MD from Dartmouth Medical School and PhD from Harvard University. In addition to these extraordinary accomplishments, in 2013, Barres became the first openly transgender scientist inducted in the National Academy

The majority of cells in the human body are not human at all. The 100 trillion prokaryotic cells that make up our microbiota, constitute 90% of the cells in our bodies, and are derived from more than 40,000 bacterial strains (Forsythe & Kunze, 2012). Bacterial cells reside in animal hosts as commensals, symbionts, or as pathogenic parasites, forming a veneer over almost all body surfaces (Dave et al., 2012). Increasingly, research is showing the importance of host microbiota composition and the bidirectional

word “technology” often conjures images of sleek and shiny devices which make life simpler, but it too can lead to dreadful consequences. “Reality is inside the skull” (Orwell, 218), making advances in bioengineering, particularly advances in neurobiology at the center of questioning. The mind can be manipulated directly by interfering with bio-molecular mechanisms. Already, experiments with mice are being held by Todd Sacktor and his team at the Weizmann Institute of

MEMORANDUM OF LAW IN OPPOSITION TO PETITION FOR REMOVAL OF CHILD FROM PRISON NURSERY NOW COMES, Stephanie Smith, the minor child in the above-captioned matter, and hereby moves this Court for a finding that the Department of Children and Families has abused its discretion, because the Department acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, by removing Stephanie from the prison nursery, where she resides with her biological mother, Sofia Smith, and placing Stephanie with her paternal grandparents

AMC”s “The Walking Dead” is a post-apocalyptic television show based on an ongoing comic book series. Set in Atlanta, Georgia the plot follows a small group of people, led by police officer Rick Grimes, struggling to survive after a pandemic of an unknown disease causes people to turn into zombies. After infection, a person initially dies, but is then somehow revived back to “life.” These zombies, or “walkers” as they are deemed on the show, seemingly have no self-awareness, but are able to walk

Dellisa Gordon Clinical Symposium April 27, 2016 Bipolar Disorder and Nursing The central focus of this paper will be Bipolar disorder and how it relates to nursing. Bipolar disorder can be classified into two sections: bipolar I and bipolar II. Bipolar I involves periods of potentially unprovoked mood swings from mania to depression (Joseph Goldberg, 2014). Bipolar II is a less harsh form of mood elevation, causing milder episodes of hypomania that may alternate with spurts of deep depression

have to be careful over labels given out, because a mere diagnosis is complex, and can have many ramifications on the patient receiving it. In the article, “Mental Illness is Too Broadly Defined,” University Provost Steven E Hyman’s (Professor of Neurobiology and former Director of the National Institute of Mental Health) statement about how psychiatry defines and measures mental illness is, “We have no equivalent of a blood-pressure cuff or blood test or brain scan that is diagnostic (Mental Health