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regions of the brain that are affected by dopamine are known as the striatum and the thalamus. Schizophrenia results have shown that in these regions in the brain, there are altered levels of D2 binding potential. Patients that have schizophrenia who do not take antipsychotic medications will have a lower thalamic D2 binding potential. So, schizophrenia patients that go untreated have a higher number of D2 receptors in the striatum. (psychcentral.com) 2. Glutamate Definition Glutamate is an amino

(fMRI) they could identify the areas of the brain activated by feelings of pride (medial prefrontal cortex, posterior superior temporal sulcus, and temporal poles – the brain regions related to Theory of Mind (ToM) and empathy) and also joy (ventral striatum – the area involved in pleasure processing). They showed study participants a series of statements that had previously

including substantia nigra which produces dopamine and dopamine normalize the neurons of the basal ganglia (Goodman & Fuller, 2015). The neural activity in PD is the imbalance of the dopamine pathways that conjoined with the substantia nigra to the striatum (Agid, 1991). Michell, (2004); Lang & Obeso (2004) identified that dopamine depletion is also due to an increase degeneration of the neurons of the brain structure with a consequence of changes in conduction to the other neural pathways. Also, there

INTRODUCTION This case study focuses on Richard who is 80-year-old and lives with his daughter Cathy and son in-law Bronco in a city metropolitan suburb. His other daughter, her twins, and his son who is ill live within two streets. It takes for Cathy and Bronco two hours to get to work, so they are not home from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Richard usually gets up after Cathy and Bronco have gone to work and spends most of his time watching the television. Meals on Wheels are delivered everyday for lunch.

Executive Summary Hyperbolic discounting is a human bias for humans to choose immediate reward rather than a higher valued reward at a future time. This bias is due to the human brains coping skills with all the information flowing around us. Our limbic system in the brain makes immediate decisions that are attached to our emotions (rewards feel good), while our frontal area of the brain makes the executive decisions. This bias leads to many businesses that profit of it, like credit companies

Cause Addiction is a multifactorial psychiatric disorder in which twin studies have established a compelling case for a genetic heritability of increased susceptibility in some human hosts more than others . Outside of genetics, addiction is partial to several environmental, behavioral, and developmental risk factors as “neither genetic nor environmental factors act in isolation to increase susceptibility to addiction.” Thus, there does not appear to be any necessary nor sufficient factors that

The two major hallmarks of Alzeheimer’s, in terms of cellular pathology, are neuritic plaques and neurofilbrillary tangles. NFTs Structure: paired helical filaments with some straight filaments Major component: hyperphosphorylated tau protein Tau protein is a microtubule-associated protein that is normally located in the axon’s microtubule network Adopt a somato-dendritic distribution in the neuron In pyramidal neurons they are flame-shaped In round neurons they appear round Insoluble, resistant

following increased glutamate release, increased calcium influx and excitotoxicity [63]. It is clear from the present study the AlCl3 induced a state of neurotoxicity mediated by oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation in the cortex, hippocampus and striatum of rats. This was associated with reduced cholinergic activity mediated by an enhancement of AchE activity. This effect was more prominent in the hippocampus which is a part of the limbic system needed for formation of various types of memory and

neurotransmitter that is associated with the rewarding experiences, which gives a pleasurable effect after consuming drugs or alcohol (Elsevier, 2010). After, alcohol consumption men experience more of a dopamine overflow in the ventral striatum. The ventral striatum is the area of the brain which corresponds to the reward system; pleasure, reinforcement, and addiction formation (Elsevier, 2010). Now, with this being said, it

decreased activation in prefrontal areas in SAD patients as compared to healthy controls (HC).” (Boehme et al. 2013) Research found in 17 SAD patients and 17 HC patents found that “HC subjects showed stronger activation than SAD patients in the ventral striatum in response to the speech vs control anticipation” (Boehme et al. 2013). the was also a cluster found in the amygdala of SAD patents