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The infant does not need to grasp tightly or walk in the first few months after birth -- instead, it needs to feed and develop. Only when those basic functions are complete does the brain kick in for further development (Kalat, pp 124-5).
Part 3 - Haloperidol is a drug that blocks dopamine synapses. What effect would it be likely to have in someone suffering from Parkinson's disease?
Dopamine is an organic chemical that is a neurotransmitter and hormone. It is responsible for a number of neurological functions: reward-driven learning, motor function, voluntary movement, cognition, and mood. Parkinson's disease is an age-related degenerative condition that causes tremors, motor impairment, and lack of the individual's ability to control which muscles react to stimuli. Scientists believe that Parkinson's is caused by the loss of dopamine-secreting neurons in a part of the brain called the substantia nigra. This is an area of the midbrain that plays an important role in...
If a Parkinson's patient already has a loss of dopamine, then the use of haloperidol would have a negative effect, likely increasing the symptoms of the disease (Kalat, p. 261).
Part 4 - Neurologists assert that if people lived long enough, sooner or later everyone would develop Parkinson's disease. Why?
Many researchers believe that Parkinson's is a genetic disorder that occurs in 20 times more of the population than is diagnosed. They believe it is both age and environmentally related, and that a combination of environment stress, the body's inability to repair cells as one ages, means that eventually, this gene would be expressed more if people lived longer. It would simply be a matter of statistics: the older the patient, the more likelihood of environmental damage and the less ability to repair cellular mechanisms (Kalat, p. 249, 256).
Source:
Kalat, J. (2010). Biological Psychology, 11th ed.…
Many researchers believe that Parkinson's is a genetic disorder that occurs in 20 times more of the population than is diagnosed. They believe it is both age and environmentally related, and that a combination of environment stress, the body's inability to repair cells as one ages, means that eventually, this gene would be expressed more if people lived longer. It would simply be a matter of statistics: the older the patient, the more likelihood of environmental damage and the less ability to repair cellular mechanisms (Kalat, p. 249, 256).
Source:
Kalat, J. (2010). Biological Psychology, 11th ed. New York: Wadsworth.
Therefore, it would tend to hold more credibility. Social theories based on bone breakage were based on theory alone. When one considers the merits of these two conflicting theories, one has to examine the behaviors and condition of modern animals, especially when making such general statements. If one considers what happens to modern animals when they are hurt, the non-social theory would have more support. Dehydration would be the most
From the point-of-view of the variation and flexibility of the species such cultivated woody crops rank as no more than cornfields. While the tree farms are conveniently be stretched on the private lands, national forests those are considered priceless reservoirs of most of the biological diversity of the nation cannot expand so easily. The commercial logging is considered as the greatest danger for survival of the national forest system.