Nervous System Articles

• Schizophrenia
  Parkinson's
  Controlled Substances
  Illegal Drugs
  Insomnia
  Pharmacology
   
  

  Dopamine

  Dopamine is a chemical naturally produced in the body. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter, activating dopamine receptors. Dopamine can be supplied as a medication that acts on the ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Diabetes
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Spinal muscular atrophy

  Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a term applied to a number of different disorders, all having in common a genetic cause and the manifestation of weakness due to loss of the motor neurons of the ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Sports Medicine
  Neuroscience
  Nervous System
  Intelligence
   

  Computational neuroscience

  Computational Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary science that links the diverse fields of neuroscience, computer science, physics and applied mathematics together. It serves as the primary ... > more
• Diseases and Conditions
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Today's Healthcare
  Sports Medicine
   

  Neurology

  Neurology is a branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Physicians specializing in the field of neurology are called neurologists and are trained to diagnose, treat, and ... > more
• Brain Injury
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Accident and Trauma
  Sports Medicine
  Intelligence
  Brain Tumor
   
  

  Head injury

  Head injury is a trauma to the head, that may or may not include injury to the brain. The incidence (number of new cases) of head injury is 300 per 100,000 per year (0.3% of the population), with a ... > more
• Eye Care
  Medical Imaging
  Food Additives
  Sports Medicine
  Nervous System
  Healthy Aging
   
  

  Color vision

  Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelength (or frequency) of the light they reflect or emit. A 'red' apple does not emit red light. Rather, ... > more
• Obesity
  Eating Disorder Research
  Nutrition
  Diet and Weight Loss
  Healthy Aging
  Hormone Disorders
   

  Appetite

  The appetite is the desire to eat food, felt as hunger. Appetite is regulated by a close interplay between the digestive tract, adipose tissue and the brain. Decreased desire to eat is termed ... > more
• Intelligence
  Neuroscience
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Healthy Aging
  Psychology
  Behavior
   
  

  Cognitive neuroscience

  The field of cognitive neuroscience concerns the scientific study of the neural mechanisms underlying cognition and is a branch of neuroscience. Cognitive neuroscience overlaps with cognitive ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
  Food Additives
  Brain Injury
  Sports Medicine
   

  Excitotoxicity

  Excitotoxicity is the pathological process by which neurons are damaged and killed by the overactivations of receptors for the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate, such as the NMDA receptor and ... > more
• Kidney Disease
  Hypertension
  Urology
  Healthy Aging
  Hormone Disorders
  Diseases and Conditions
   
  

  Kidney

  The kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. Part of the urinary system, the kidneys filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them, along with water, as urine. In ... > more

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