Glaucoma and Vision Impairments
For my project I decided to create an animation to illustrate the vision impairments caused by open-angle glaucoma. If this does not show the animation, I also posted it in media just in case. https://humanap.community.uaf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/848/2021/11/Glaucoma.png
The skin you’re in
My project is to help in understanding how our largest organ functions, the integumentary system. This organ of the body, so much overlooked does so much for us including thermoregulation, protection, and forming a physical barrier against the environment.
Prosopagnosia
Prosopagnosia, also known as ‘face blindness’ refers to the neurological condition in which those affected suffer a severe deficit in recognising familiar people from their face and rely on voices or distinct features such as hairstyle or clothing to recognise people. Alongside the inability to recognise faces, many people also …
VHL Tumors
My STEAM project is about the tumor growth from VHL- Von Hippel-Lindau disease. Von Hippel-Lindau disease is an extremely rare disease that causes tumors and cysts to grow all over in your body. They can grow on your brain stem and spinal cord, eyes, kidneys, pancreas, adrenal glands, and reproductive …
Sarcopenia
My STEAM project will be centered on the effects aging has on the skeletal muscles within the human body and what if anything can reduce the effects aging has on the skeletal muscles. The objective of this STEAM project will connect and expand on Unit five interaction of muscles and …
Nervous System STEAM Project
Attached is a painting I did, demonstrating the overall nervous system in the middle. The nerve cells on the left side of the painting show a healthy string of neurons, with myelin sheaths and oligodendrocytes intact. On the right, depicted is the degenerative effects a disease like Multiple Sclerosis can …
Dystonia compared to normal muscle contraction
A muscle contraction begins with a signal from a neurotransmitter from the nervous system. The signal innervates individual muscle fibers and sodium ions are released, depolarizing the entire fiber membrane and its tubules. Once the membrane has been depolarized, calcium ions are released from storage in the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The …
Stages of Mitosis
My project goes in more depth the stages of Mitosis. This is important because it is how our cells properly divide for every cell from skin cell to neuron cell within the body. The cell cycle is comprised of three parts interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. According to chapter three of …