There are trillions of nerve in your body. That is a lot of nerve. The nervous system can transmit nerves 328 feet per second. If you break your spinal cord you can be paralyzed. There are more nerves in the human body than stars in the milky way. I didn’t know that! A baby brain consists of 10 million cells at the time of birth. The nervous system is a very important system to our body.
The nervous system is made up of the brain and spinal cord. The brain controls all of your daily functions. The spinal cord helps transmit signals through the body. The brain and spinal cord together form the central nervous system (CNS), where information is processed and responses originate. The nervous system is made up of two major organs.
The major function of the nervous system is to send messages to the brain to let it know what is going on. It lets the brain understand the pain before
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The skeletal system protects your body from injury, and lets the nerves know when something is up! The endocrine system has hormones that affects the growth of the nervous system. The integumentary system has hair follicles that interact and help the nerves out. The nervous system has a big impact on other systems.
One disease of the nervous system is Alzheimer's. Alzheimer’s is a disease where you lose memory of everything. That is horrible! Age is currently the greatest known risk. Scientists still don’t understand the cause for Alzheimer’s. There currently isn’t a long term cure. Alzheimer’s disease is an awful disease!
Another disease of the nervous system is epilepsy. Epilepsy is when the activity of the brain becomes different. Some symptoms are confusion, uncontrollable jerking movements, and loss of awareness/consciousness. There is no identifiable cause for epilepsy. You have a risk for it if you are a child or older adult, have family history, or if you have head injuries. Epilepsy is
A bunch of nerves put together is called the Nervous system. The Nervous system helps with body coordination and provides sensory information about external problems. The nervous system controls the brain, spinal cord, sense organs, etc. Without our nervous system, we would not be able to function, since
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects the brain causing people to have seizures. A seizure is a big disruption of electrical communication between neurons, leading to the temporary release of excessive energy in a synchronized form Epilepsy is very unpredictable. Having a seizure disorder doesn't mean that you can only have one type of seizure. People can have many different types of seizures; it can vary on the person. In some cases depending on the type of seizures someone may have they can grow out of them. (“Epilepsy Foundation." What Is Epilepsy? N.p., n.d. Web. 09 May 2014.)
Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia which is a brain disorder that impairs mental functioning. Dementia attacks the part of the brain which controls memory, language, and thought. It makes everyday tasks like remembering to brushing your teeth, or to pay your bills next to impossible to do, which is why so many people who are diagnosed with this disease are in complete care. This disease has different phases, the first being slight forgetfulness and then the persons emotions may heighten as well as language impairment, violent outbursts, loss of bladder control and from there it keeps getting worse until complete dysfunction of the brain occurs and eventually death, which most of the time is the result of infection.
Not everyone who has a seizure has epilepsy. Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder characterized by recurrent, unprovoked seizures. Unprovoked means that there is no immediate cause for the seizure, such as a fever, an infection of the brain, or head trauma. Nearly 10 percent of people will have a seizure during their lifetime; most of these are provoked seizures during an acute illness or condition. These people may never have epilepsy. There are two types of seizures people can have. One is partial seizure or focal they begin in one part of the brain. They cause varied symptoms auras which is a funny feeling in your stomach, staring, chewing, lip smacking, shaking, or stiffness in parts of the body. Generalized seizures are when the entire brain is effected. This causes loss consciousness. One type is grand mal is when the body stiffens and jerks. Another type is petit mal, which is momentary loss of consciousness without abnormal body movement. Some factors of this are infections of the brain this includes meningitis, encephalitis, and brain abscess. Strokes are also a risk of epilepsy. Also alcohol can cause seizures for heavy drinkers when they stop drinking abruptly (withdrawal seizures) and also have a good chance of epilepsy. Epilepsy can also cause brain tumors usually they are slow growing and don't affect them for years. Some other factors that cause epilepsy is age the risk of seizures is higher in young children. Also gender epilepsy is higher in males than in females. The most common treatment for epilepsy is the daily use of anticonvulsant or antiepilectic drugs to prevent seizures. These medications act on brain signals to limit hyperexcitability. While medications do not cure epilepsy, they allow many people to live normal, active lives. Other treatments are vagus nerve stimulation this treatment involves electronic stimulation of the brain using an implanted device like a pacemaker. Another is epilepsy surgery this is when a part of the brain that is causing the seizures is removed so that it prevents it from spreading to anther part of the brain.
Epilepsy is a condition characterized by recurrent seizures which are unprovoked by any immediately identifiable cause (Hopkins & Shorvon, 1995). It is also known as a seizure disorder. A wide range of links and risk factors are associated with the condition, but most of the time the cause is unknown. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting approximately two and half million people in the US and about 50 million worldwide. Though seizures can occur at any age, epilepsy is most commonly seen in children and the elderly. Most respond well to treatment and can control their seizures, but for some it is a chronic illness. A clinical diagnosis is the first step to finding a potential cure for the disorder.
The human nervous system is divided into two parts, the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system, CNS, is just the brain and spinal cord. The peripheral nervous system, PNS, includes the nerves and neurons that extend outwards from the CNS, to transmit information to your limbs and organs, for example. Communication between your cells is extremely important, neurons are the messengers that relay information to and from your brain. Nerve cells generate electrical signals to transmit information.
What is epilepsy? Epilepsy is a disorder where the diagnosed patient has recurring seizures. Under normal conditions, neurons in the brain discharge randomly. However, seizures happen when abnormal bursts of electricity are set off in the brain by neurons that discharge in a coordinated fashion. A seizure can have varied lengths; anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.
The nervous system is our ?body's information gatherer, storage center and control system.? It collects information about the external conditions in relation to the body's internal state, to analyze this information, and to initiate appropriate responses to satisfy certain needs (Maintain Homeostasis).
During our everyday lives, we do a lot of things such as learning new information at school, write notes, walk our dogs at the park and communicate with other people around us. The one responsible for all of these actions that we do is the nervous system in our body. Our nervous system, which consists of the brain, spinal cord and the nerves, serves as the command center of our body. A person will be in a lot of trouble if something goes wrong to their nervous system. It can affect the way a person moves, speak, breath and even learn. Neurological diseases is the term used to describe an illness that involves the nervous system. There are “more than 600 neurological diseases” (Jankovic et al., pg.186) however, on this paper, we are only going to focus on a certain type of degenerative diseases which is the Corticobasal Degeneration.
The brain and spinal cord make up the central nervous system. The brain doesn't just control your organs, but also can think and remember. That part of the brain is called the mind.
Mykenzie Moyle Ms. Douglass English I, P.4 16 May 2014 Research Paper Alzheimer’s Disease is formed in the brain but, yet, has no known cure or treatment. Alzheimer’s disease has many symptoms. Memory is the biggest symptom along with mood swings and having a hard time keeping up with a conversation. A patient with Alzheimer’s goes through 7 stages; The first stage, which is misplacing things or forgetting what something is used for, second stage, they start losing more of their memory and they begin to forget where they are or what they are doing, the third, fourth and fifth begin to mentally decline and need someone to take care of them and worsen over time.
The nervous system carries messages to and from the brain and spinal cord all over the body. It is a complex network of nerves and cells that can be split primarily into 2 sections; the central and peripheral nervous systems. The Central Nervous System (CNS) consists of the brain and the spinal chord. It is the control centre of the human body, information from all parts of the body is integrated and communicated to the CNS.
The nervous system is composed of all nerve tissue in the body. This organ system forms a communication and coordination network between all parts of the body. It plays a major role in everyday activities such as breathing, walking even blinking. It is made up of nerve tissues to receive and transmit stimuli to nervous centers and initiate response. Neurons are nerve cells that transmit signals from one location of the body to another. With damage to the nervous system the body would not be able to function properly. The body has to be well taken care of in order to insure proper regulation. The two anatomical divisions that work hand in hand to help regulate the nervous system are the central and peripheral nervous system. According to the Campbell’s seventh edition biology book the nervous system is the most intricately organized data processing system on earth. It is a complex collection of nerves and specialized cells.
The nervous system is the processing system in a human body which is responsible for coordination of movement and ability to respond to stimuli, intelligence, self-awareness, thought and emotions.
The nervous system’s main function is to coordinate all of the activities in the body. The main organs are the cerebellum, which controls and coordinates movement. The cerebrum, is the center for conscious thought, learning, and memory. The last main organ is the brain stem. The brain stem keeps the automatic systems in your body working. Problems of the nervous system include, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis. You can care for your nervous system by wearing a seatbelt, wearing a helmet, and by not using drugs or alcohol. Something very confusing about the nervous system is that the left side of human brain controls the right side of the body and the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body!