Essays on Nerve Cell

Introduction

Depression is a disease affecting a large part of the population today. Though many people experience sadness from time to time, depression is a much more complex disease. It affects a person’s daily life and often results in physical pain. Unlike the occasional feelings of sadness that fade away, depression lasts longer (NIMH, 2014). Biopsychology involves the scientific study of the relationship between behavior and biology (Green, 2013). In the study of their relationship, biology and behavior mostly interact in the brain and nervous system. It will also apply to the analysis of depression in relation to the biology; this study ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Educational Institution NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE IN MEDICINE: james e. rothman Since 1901, the Nobel Foundation, which was established as a bequeath of the late Alfred Nobel has awarded Nobel Prizes in five notable fields of global achievement, among which is Physiology or Medicine. Featured in this article is the recipient of one of the three foreemost scientists who received that award in 2013, James E. Rothman. Along with Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof whose work alongside Rothman’s paved for the discovery of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in human cells. This achievement represents an advancement ...

Prior to 1983, erectile dysfunction was considered a mental problem. This is because very little was understood about male sexuality. However, the discovery of phentolamine by Dr. Giles Brindley was a groundbreaking development as it paved the way for further development in this field (Brain, and Lambert). This discovery led to the understanding of how male sexuality works. Viagra came into the scene in the 1990s, but it was certified by the FDA in 1998. Immediately after approved, the drug became a household name and a culture metaphor (Tiefer 273–294). Viagra is a trade name given to the drug Sildenafil, a Phosphodiesterase type ...

a) Explain why the effort of hormonal (Endocrine ) control tends to be slow whereas nervous control is usually very fast.

Endocrine control is normally slower when compared to nervous control majorly because hormones once released by the endocrine gland have to travel via the circulation to reach their target receptors on the effector organ which generally takes more time. Meanwhile, information relayed by nerves is in form of impulses (that is, action potentials generated due to electrical excitation produced by a change in the charge across the surface membrane of the neuron evoked by the stimuli) that simply travel along the ...