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Topic: Nervous System

Related:
  System    Nervous  
  Central Nervous System    Information Systems  
  Control Systems    Management System  
  Quality System    Autonomic Nervous System  
  Peripheral Nervous System    Human Nervous System  
  Sympathetic Nervous System    Operating System  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Smallpox vaccine
Personality:Nervous,  Easily addicted
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite body part(s):Lungs,  Brain,  Skin
Favorite activity(s):Taking drugs
Interest(s):Biology
Favorite sportsperson(s):Lou Gehrig (baseball)
Ultimate fantasy(s):Having severe anorexia
Medical note(s):Undergoing therapy,  Has cancer,  Uses laxatives
Worst habit(s):Nervous twitch,  Taking Ecstasy,  Smoking Marijuana
Favorite quote(s):"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"How can men use sex to get what they want? Sex IS what they want." (Frasier Crane on FRASIER)
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Central Nervous System Manifestations Overview Neurologic manifestations of SLE are common and vary from mild to severe.
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MANIFESTATIONS Neurologic manifestations of SLE are common and vary from mild to severe.
The central nervous system comprises a fused ganglionic mass with peripheral nerves extending to various parts of the body.
Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer

The peripheral nervous system is the network of nerves that connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

There are close connections between the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system that regulates hormone secretion.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Biofeedback is a method that teaches people to control specific target functions of the central and autonomic nervous system, such as muscle tension and peripheral blood flow.
The sweat glands are closely allied with the autonomic nervous system and respond with extreme rapidity to nervous impulses originating in the autonomic nervous system.
The realization of autonomic nervous system dysfunction in fibromyalgia demands a scientifically holistic approach for its treatment.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

This system automatically provides for 1 patient Quantitative Assessment of the Autonomic Nervous system and the Level of Physical fitness during the Orthostatic test.
The central nervous system controls for both mechanisms are in the brain stem and are modulated by higher centers scattered throughout the midbrain and the cortex of the brain.
With the nervous system of a sea slug as experimental model he has demonstrated how changes of synaptic function are central for learning and memory.
Thomas Owens,
Police Officer

This was thought to be due to autonomic nervous system disturbance and as yet the problem remains unsolved preventing the subject from using the system.
 
 
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