Marshall McLuhan sees that technology is evolutionary and he claims that everything has grown from electricity and he links this to the human nervous system. McLuhan’s core argument is “the medium is the massage”‚ in which he goes further on explaining the claim that each medium influences the human sensations and perception. In his text‚ Raymond Williams explains how the social practices have a dominance over the technological practices in the development of human processes. Williams is a cultural
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a function. Emergent properties are the properties in which components of a system that is working together has‚ yet when the components are broken down individually‚ they are lacking these properties. Examples of emergent properties include the human brain and ant colonies. An emergent property of the brain is human consciousness. No single neuron holds complex information of the brain yet‚ within the nervous system‚ a collection of neurons create complex emotions. An ant can be considered
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exposed to these elements. If you are in the vicinity of the area sprayed‚ this is where you will get the exposure of Malathion. Usually the risk comes from Malathion in the air or on the surface of something you may touch. The brain and the nervous system are affected when exposed to Malathion. You may have trouble breathing or headaches‚ chest pains‚ vomiting‚ dizziness and even death. However if you seek medical attention immediately typically there are no long term affects. What happens if you
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Multiple Sclerosis‚ also referred to as MS‚ affects more than 400‚000 people in the United States and about 2.5 million people around the world. This is a disease that affects the nervous systems and disrupts the communication between the brain and the body. It can affect the immune system and manifest in other sicknesses. To show how one may encounter this disease‚ I’ll use as an example one man in general‚ whose name is Andrew Johnson. At the age of 32 he was diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting
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arrived on the ward at 7:30 ready to begin a 12-hour shift. After receiving handover‚ my mentor assigned me the job of bathing Mr B with the help of a healthcare assistant. Mr B has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)‚ a progressive disease of the nervous system with rapid deterioration due to spongiform encephalopathy. He is not expected to live to Christmas‚ even though he is only 19 years old. He is mentally aware of what is going on but is physically unable to demonstrate activities of daily living
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hypothalamus (p.455) The cerebellum is responsible for maintaining balance and posture (p.455) The reticular formation is essential for maintaining wakefulness and in conjunction with the cerebral cortex is referred to as the reticular activating system (p.450) The Broca speech area is rostral to the inferior edge of the premotor area on the inferior frontal gyrus. It is usually on the left hemisphere and is responsible for the motor aspects of speech. Damage to this area leads to expressive aphasia
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your body can last without food‚ water or oxygen? Factors of this would include your environment‚ your physical health‚ your mental health‚ and your diet. 3. How do you think the brain and the nervous system assist in times of limited body resources? The brain and the nervous system work together to send signals to the body letting it know when it needs to switch fuels and when it needs to stop all together. 1. How did the swimmer in the video prepare for the energy demands he was about
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soldiers were exposed to it the Dr. suggested to cut the soldiers who weren’t infected and harvest puss out of the blisters of an effected soldier and spread it on to the open cut‚ that would result in the virus slowly making its way into the nervous system while anti-viruses were created to kill the virus to keep the soldier from dying and that would act as an antibiotic to keep them from getting it. (p.s. im still revising and finishing it)
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There are three main nerves in your hand radial nerve‚ median nerve‚ and ulnar nerve. Each one of these gives movement and feeling to different areas of the hand. The ulnar nerve is one of the three main nerves in your arm. It travels from your neck down into your hand. The most common place for this nerve is behind the inside part of the elbow. The radial nerve descends down the arm with in the triceps with in the upper arm. Then moves down the arm within the humerus also known as the radial
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Look around you; Everyone looks different‚ on the outside‚ but have you ever thought that their brain may look different as well? The brain can be changed by many different factors‚ some of which have negative effects on how your brain functions. These effects could have been and can be prevented‚ others you‚ or your parents‚ have no control over. Preventable or not‚ the brain physically and functionally is affected by many different factors‚ some of which include: gender‚ learning disabilities and
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