Category: Physiology

Give two examples of drugs and/or foods that you take/eat regularly or have taken/eaten in the past. How have these drugs affected your psychology (attention, memory, mood, movement, balance, etc.)? From a neurological perspective, what brain regions or neurotransmitters might be affected by these drugs and foods? This essay prompt may require some outside research.…

Prompt: Suppose you are studying a neural circuit that you suspect contains reciprocal inhibition between two neurons. Explain an electrophysiology experiment that you would do to determine whether or not the neurons are reciprocally inhibited. Make sure to specify experimental and control conditions, and explain the data that would support your hypothesis. Drawings are encouraged.…

Action potentials occur in response to graded potentials that reach threshold. They are necessary for the communication of information to, from, and within the brain. Your ability to read this page and to understand its message, to laugh and cry, to think and feel, to see and hear, and to move your muscles, depends on…

Instructions For The Second Paper Assignment It should be between 1000-1500 words. YOUR TA WILL SEND YOU SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU FOLLOW THEM, AS OTHERWISE WE MIGHT NOT RECEIVE YOUR ESSAY. MAKE SURE TO CONFIRM THAT YOUR ESSAY HAS BEEN SUBMITTED (E.G., TAKE A SCREENSHOT). Please select one question from the list…

As I mentioned in the introduction to last week’s discussion, psychology uses three methods to explain the process of learning. In classical conditioning we learn by making associations between two stimuli (things) that occur close together. This week we will focus on the other two perspectives/theories that explain the process of learning. These are operant…

Answer the following prompt in a well-developed paragraph. Include relevant support for your answer, which may involve integrating an applicable quote (either direct and/or paraphrased) from your textbook assigned readings. This is a “formal” writing, so stay in 3rd person point-of-view (no “I,” no “you,” no “we”). Create a Work Cited for your textbook. Follow…

Review the case study analysis topic below. Then, using the Case Study Analysis Assignment Outline, write a 6-8-page paper (including title and reference page). You are caring for a 58-year-old electrician admitted to your emergency room for purulent drainage from his incision site. He is one-week post-CABG. His cardiologist reports positive blood cultures. Hospital admission…