Growth and Differentiation of the Nervous System
The nervous system is formed of specialized cells called neurons that use electrical and chemical signals to carry information to and away from the bra...
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Nervous System
The nervous system is a highly precise and complex system of cells that allows animals to sense, process, and react to cues from the physical environment. The fundamental duty of the ne...
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Psychomotor Stimulant
This term is used to describe drugs that act as central nervous system (CNS) stimulants. Such drugs generally are appetite suppressants, decrease sleep and fatigue, increase ener...
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Advances in Understanding the Nervous System
Overview
Neurology, the study of the brain along with the body's nervous system, had little structure in the medical community of late-Medieval and ...
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Elucidating the Structure and Workings of the Nervous System
Overview
The detailed study of the nervous system did not begin in earnest until the middle of the nineteenth century. As with other areas ...
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Drug Effects on the Nervous System
The business of the nervous system is to transmit information from one cell to another. Although this happens in different locations and with different neurotransmit...
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Nervous System Overview
The nervous system is responsible for short-term immediate control of the human body and for communication between various body systems. Although the endocrine system achieves ...
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Nervous System
How are human functions such as movement, learning, thought, and reflexive action regulated by the body? For a very long time, scholars divided these processes into two large categories...
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Central Nervous System Stimulants
Central nervous system (CNS) stimulants are medicines that speed up physical and mental processes. They are used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (AD...
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Nervous System
The nervous system coordinates behavior and helps to maintain the internal stability of animals. It may be as simple as the nerve net of Cnidarians or as complex as the centralized syst...
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Nervous System
How are human functions such as movement, learning, thought, and reflexive action regulated by the body? For a very long time, scholars divided these processes into two large categories...
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Growth and Differentiation of the Nervous System
Psychomotor Stimulant
Advances in Understanding the Nervous System
Drug Effects on the Nervous System
Nervous System
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Nervous System