Introduction The topic of whether Human Growth Hormone (HGH) should be administered to children who are considered to be hormone deficient children. Several doctors have been devoted to the serious study of the effects of Human Growth Hormones and have found out a lot about this topic since its fi...

Endocrinology is the study of chemical communication systems that provide the means to control a huge number of physiologic processes. Like other communication networks, endocrine systems contain transmitters, signals and receivers that are called, respectively hormone producing cells, hormones and ...

Hormones Hormones are organic substances that are secreted by plants and animals and that function in the regulation of physiological activities and in maintaining homeostasis. They carry out their functions by evoking responses from specific organs or tissues that are adapte...

Question: Should human performance enhancing drugs such as growth hormones be allowed in cycling? If human growth hormones (HGH) were allowed in professional cycling, there would be both advantages and disadvantages. If they were allowed, we would see much closer races, world records broken, stro...

Up until the age of nine or ten years, there is little difference in the physical appearance of a boy or a girl, except the genitals. Boys and girls behave differently but this is mostly as a result of 'socialisation' or the way other people have molded the child to behave like a girl or like a boy....

Roots of Forgiveness The fact that human beings have become and remain the dominant life forms on this planet rests not solely on the fact that we possess a larger, more complex brain, but on those higher cognitive functions which that brain provides. One of the most distinguishing of these is f...

Three reasons why a neuron may not generate an action potential. Electrical signal is too weak. Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The total input falls short of the threshold. The interaction between heredity and environment can be used to explain the development of schizophrenic disorder. The...

Think of all those children out there that are born constantly hungry, which are unable to feel satisfied eating, and constantly obsessed with food and eating. This complex genetic mistake is known as Prader-Willi Syndrome. It is passed through genes of those who have it or a mistake in genes. It w...

Marijuana has many nicknames: sess, pot, dope, weed, green, boom, Mary Jane, herb, buds, grass, chronic, ganja, and trees. Marijuana comes from the flowers, buds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis. Smoking marijuana is almost as common as seeing someone smoking a cigarette. Some smoke marijuana ...