women my age, so the doctor asked many probing questions and concluded they wanted to do some additional test. This was the evening that I received my very first spinal tap. The spinal tap concluded that I had excessive cerebral spinal fluid on my brain. After spending three more days in the hospital I was introduced to my new neurologist. Before going home I was educated on my new diagnosis of intracranial hypertension. The doctors gave me a lot of reading material, and a follow up appointment with
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Meningitis is one of the fastest spreading diseases as it is an infection on the lining and fluid around the brain and spinal column. The cause of this disease may be bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic. The most often of these is viral meningitis, which causes hearing loss. The hearing loss caused by meningitis is the body’s reaction to the disease during the
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3 Thinking Techniques to Improve Your Intellectual Horsepower Here are 3 simple thinking techniques I tend to use each day. There are some more advanced thinking techniques, but here I’m boiling down to a set of 3 you can use today. In fact, you can even use them while you read this post. I’ll go through the thinking techniques in order from simpler to more complex, so you can use them right away. For the sake of this exercise, let’s think of "thinking" as simply asking and answering questions
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Cord 3.2 Cells of the Nervous System 3.5 Five Major Divisions of the Brain 3.3 Neuroanatomical Techniques and Directions 3.6 Major Structures of the Brain ISBN 0-558-78571-9 Biopsychology, Eighth Edition, by John P.J. Pinel. Published by Allyn & Bacon. Copyright © 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. 3.1 ■ General Layout of the Nervous System I n order to understand what the brain does, it is first necessary to understand what it is—to know the names and locations
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Study Guide Essentials of Psychology By Robert G. Turner Jr., Ph.D. About the Author Robert G. Turner Jr., Ph.D. has more than 20 years of teaching and education-related experience. He has taught seventh-grade science, worked as a curriculum developer for the Upward Bound Program, and taught sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and honors seminars at the university level. As a professional writer, he has written nonfiction books, journal and magazine articles, novels, and stage plays
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B12, I'm getting Shrink-brain." In a discovery by Oxford University recently their findings revealed that there is a clear link between low quantities of vitamin B12 and brain shrinkage. Scientists who were using physical checks, memory tests, and brain scans to examine 107 people from the ages of 61 to 87. The same group of volunteers were later retested and the researchers found that those with the lowest levels of the B12 vitamin were also found to have smaller brains, conclusively confirming
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BRAIN ABSCESS Definition -an infection in the brain that is encapsulated (confined within its own area) and localized to one or more areas inside of the brain -a collection of immune cells, pus, and other material in the brain, usually from a bacterial or fungal infection -occur in all children, but are more common in young school-aged children and occur twice as often in males than in females -usually associated with congenital heart disease in young children Etiology -Direct extension
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Not Proud.” Gunther entails the wondrous accomplishments Johnny made, along with his terrific fight against a brain tumor. Throughout the whole book, Gunther describes Johnny’s attitude as positively upbeat and wittily sarcastic, even though Johnny seemed to already have accepted his death early on. Gunther starts the memoir by informing the reader that Johnny dies after fighting a brain tumor for fifteen months; then, goes on to describe Johnny’s life as a whole. Johnny was sixteen years old, attending
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neurons located in the brain & spinal cord. 3. Differences between neurons and nerves affect recovery, One reason neurons have only a limited capacity to be repaired or rewired after damage is that there is a genetic program that turns off regrowth when neurons become fully grown by causing problem with motor coordination, strength and sensation. Recent advances in stem cell research suggest the human brain may be able to grow more neurons. If this were possible, the brain could repair damage caused
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altered. The Cannon-Bard theory says that the experience and the expression of someone’s emotions are two totally different things. Although it’s two different things is also thought of having equal responses that are caused by the feelings of the brain from the emotions and also the autonomic and somatic nervous system's expression. It’s also said that one does not initiate or in no way directly cause the other. This theory unfortunately is not proven due to different analysis as well due to some reports
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