Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Final post

The three positive outcomes from this project have been.

  • I learned about the brain and how it makes your body react.
  • I was able to transfer that information to others proving I learned something.
  • And I completed it by the deadline.

What I learned related to technology was how to blog .

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Drugs on the brain

This is my third post and I’ve finally learned about my topic of controversy and I’m starting on my article les for my magazine tonight but ill give you some information on illicit drugs.

Hallucinogens are one of the drug categories, these cause hallucinations “duh”.
Drugs in this category are: Mushrooms, LSD, and PCP which is especially dangerous and can cause death.

Stimulants are another drug category and are the most common from my understanding. These cause the body to fell stimulated. Drugs in this category are: amphetamines, methamphetamines, Ritalin, ecstasy crack, cocaine, and designer drugs. The worst thing about these drugs is the they all increase heart attacks and are extremely addictive to your brain.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Synapse And Neurotransmitters

So you understand neurotransmitters I will explain synapses and their purpose.

A synapse is the way your brain passes information from cell to cell. A synapse uses chemical and electrical impulses to send these messages.

Each nerve cell has thousands of synapse and these synapses are democratic. There are two types of synapse, Inhibitory and exhibitory. Inhibitory won’t cause the cell to fire and exhibitory will. Also the area of the synapses on the cell determines the strength of its “vote”.


Over the past few days I’ve learned about neurotransmitters and how they work. I have yet to learn how illicit drugs affect the nervous system but I’ll Explain What I Know about Neurotransmitters.

A neurotransmitter moves from neuron to neuron going from an electrical impulse to a chemical which there are nine of but all fit into three chemical compounds and then back to an electrical impulse. This all happen in a place called the peripheral nervous system but there are neurotransmitters all over the rest of your body as well.

Neurotransmitters are released into a gap where they convert into chemical form and are received by receptor cells then change back into electricity. These receptors are placed on a postsynaptic cell the gap is called a synapse they combine with protein and cause an impulse depending if it is inhibited or exhibited.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Parts of the brain

I have been learning about the nervous system and how it work I have yet to learn about my topic of controversy but will post about that later for now I will list what makes up the brain.


Parts of the Brain:
Lobes:
Frontal lobe: This area of the brain Deals intellect and planning.
Parietal Lobe:This area includes the sensory and motor skill parts of the brain.
Temporal Lobe:This areacontrols memory and emotion.
Occipital Lobe: This Is the viual area of the brain.
Brainstem: This connects the brain to Spinal Cord.
Left hemisphere: Motor cortex, Sensory cortex, Visual cortex, Auditory cortex, Cerebellum
Right hemisphere: Corpus Callosum, Thalamus, Hypohalamus, Amygdala,