Multiple Sclerosis and the Central Nervous System
My topic is about how MS affects the body. It affects the central nervous system ( the brain and the spinal cord) which affects the rest of the body. I also compared and contrast the PNS and CNS. MS affects many systems of the body including the digestive, immune, skeletal, …
Sensory cells
For my project I compared and contrasted this different sensory cells and also compared them to the sensory cells we have within our teeth.
STEAM Project: NMDA Receptor Hypofunction and Detectable Psychosis
This project focuses on the NMDA neuroreceptor and demonstrated hypofunction in correlation with detectable psychosis.
Osgood-Schlatter Disease
For my STEAM project, I did Osgood-Schlatter Disease. OSD is a disease that stems from the overuse of the patellar tendon and causes a protruding section of bone at the tibial tuberosity. This impacts approximately 20% of physically active adolescents who are skeletally immature and the effects usually subside within …
Achilles Tendon Ruptures
For my STEAM project I wanted to more in depth into Achilles tendon injuries. I made a model of the tendon and its attaching muscle and bone. My visual was made from house hold items, reusing the skeletal model from our lab kits. For the first leg model I carefully …
Multiple Sclerosis
For my STEAM project I did multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a autoimmune disease that affects the nerve cells of the CNS. I used styrofoam and pipe cleaners to make a damaged nerve cell. I used felt sheets to show the damage that the immune system does to the myelin …
Alcohol Related Peripheral Neuropathy
My STEAM project shows the symptoms that can be experienced due to sensory nerve damage from alcohol related peripheral neuropathy. My dad has alcohol related peripheral neuropathy. Without feeling it ourselves, my family and I have always struggled to understand exactly how the pain feels to him. He described his …
The Land of Frostbite
I decided to do a comic on what occurs on the cellular level during Frostbite. My media is a comic on a human cell and a wood frog cell and what happens with them during freezing temperatures. I made mine a tragic love story, much like Romeo and Juliet. Frostbite