Cell and Molecular Biology

Th is week on Monday, April 16, we presented our "Mental Illness in Young Adults" in the Health Science building. Overall, I believe the presentation went very well. We did not receive the audience we expected of parents and their children. Instead, the senior citizens from the Franklin Building came to hear our presentation. As for our first presentation with them, they were a perfect audience--attentive, genuinely interested in the topic, and applied the information to their personal lives. We divided the topics accordingly: I spoke about depression, Rondell spoke about anxiety, and Timi spoke about ADHD. For each mental illness, we discussed the definition of each mental illness, symptoms of the mental illness, risk factors of the mental illness, and finally, statistics of mental illness. We had intended to emphasize ways in which parents ought to notice changes in their child's behavior to notice the onset of mental illness if it arises. However, as this would be rela...

Next week is our presentation for Convention Day and our group will be discussing mental health. Our group plans to meet tomorrow to work on a poster and will also provide our listeners with a handout of slides we created that they may keep with them for future reference. We have yet to divide up the information and assign specific topics to each group member that they will research and present on. However, I plan on discussing symptoms and statistics for depression/anxiety in young kids so that the parents may acknowledge any warning signs their children may exhibit in the future. Concerning statistics, I believe it is important for parents, if their child belong to any of the demographics with high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation (such as with LGBT youth) that they would ensure their child feels loved and supported in order to prevent such mental illnesses from occurring. If the parents understand the symptoms of such mental illness and statistics concerning these...

Key Terms: Active transport Uniporter Facilitated diffusion Active transport - Channels that require ATP to transport molecules across the membrane against their concentration gradient. An example of active transport is the sodium-potassium pump, which uses ATP to pump three sodium ions outside the cell and pumps two potassium ions into the cell. This establishes a concentration gradient across the cell membrane and a net negative charge inside the cell and a net positive charge outside the cell.  http://schoolworkhelper.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sodium-pump.jpg Uniporter - A channel that allows for facilitated diffusion and transports one molecule at a time across the plasma membrane by undergoing conformational change. Uniporters transfer molecules at a rate faster than the rate of simple diffusion but slower than the rate of the transfer of molecules through ion channels.  Facilitated diffusion - Channel that transports molecules down t...