Introduction Malnutrition as defined is the lack of a sufficient quantity or quality of nutrients to maintain the body system at some definable level of functioning. It has been estimated that 37-80 percent of all pre-school children in the developing countries like Philippines suffer from protein calorie malnutrition as assessed by the manifestation of syndromes, nutritional indexes, and weight deviations (Bengoa, 1974). Mild to moderate malnutrition, also called chronic under nutrition, is much
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characteristics. The genes also shape the development the organ systems particularly the nervous system and the endocrine system. The most significant organ of the nervous system perhaps that is developed with the influence of the inherited genes is the brain. Giving a closer look, the genes actually are not capable of directly affecting the behaviour. (Johnston & Edwards, 2002) Factors that are known to have direct effect on the behaviour are sensory stimulation and physical influences. But knowing that
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Robert Hargrove SSCI206-1301B-62 Unit 2 Individual Project Alfred Kent Van Cleave My Experience with Adaption The nervous system along with the brain is always adapting to match the surrounding environment. This paper will give you my experience for the experiments I conducted. My first experience is with rubbing my fingers with the sandpaper. After gently rubbing my fingertips with the sandpaper, on a scale of one to seven, I would rate it a five because it made my fingertips rough and
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Term Paper: Aggression and the Brain Aggression as a general term refers to the act of inflicting physical or verbal harm with the intentions of causing pain. It is very questionable why people choose to harm each other especially if there is no reason, such as self defense, involved, but research has been evolving on that issue to show how the biology of the brain is related to aggression and how different the neurochemistry of the brain of an aggressive person to a non aggressive one.
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Aging changes in the nervous system URL of this page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/004023.htm As people age, their brain and nervous system go through natural changes. The brain and spinal cord lose nerve cells and weight. Nerve cells may begin to transmit messages more slowly than in the past. Waste products can collect in the brain tissue as nerve cells break down, causing abnormal structures called plaques and tangles to form. A fatty brown pigment (lipofuscin) can also
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the human mind is not a spiritual, but a physical thing. The theory claims that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain.” Smart says that experiences such as pain, seeing something, or having a mental image are not just correlated with events that take place in the brain, but that they are brain processes, and nothing more. Smart insists that at the level science is going soon even the behaviour of man will “be explicable in mechanistic terms”. To
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QUESTION 1 Our mind and bodies always seem to be in synch, but what if we covered our eyes, would our brains and our bodies still be in synch? In class we watched a demonstration of two students. One student was blindfolded and touched the second student's nose. The second student touched the first student's nose at the exact same time the blindfolded student touched the second student. This made the first student think that he was touching his own nose and that his nose had gotten longer because
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The brain is a vital organ in our flourishing body. It has astronomical assessments that are performed on a daily basis. The brain empowers the nervous system, the learning ability, the sensory information, coordinates the function of the body and stimulates our mind in order to live and survive in the world of living organisms. The mind empowers emotions and reactions towards certain situations. Emotions are usually developed from surrounding environments, settings, experiences, oras and through
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INTRODUCTION Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disease that affects the neural basis of the brain. Discussion of the symptoms, the causes and drug therapies for schizophrenic patients will be discussed and covered. Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is yet completely understood. The areas of the brain affected in schizophrenia can not be named by one specific region of the brain. There are a number of regions of the brain that are affected by schizophrenia. Changes reported in the parahippocampal gurus
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Axia College Material Appendix C Building a Medical Vocabulary Ch. 2 Complete activities A, B, & C. A. Use the word bank below to build the medical word that corresponds to each definition in problems 1-13. Click the grey box to begin typing. |-ior |later/o- |infer/o- |umbilic/o- | |-al |dors/o- |caud/o- |inguin/o-
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