Nervous+System+Wiki-kp

Once again my anatomy class was assigned another group project. For this project we got to pick who we worked with. Lydia Heter and Jiyoon Kim were my two chosen partners. Each group was asked to pick a specific disease and the neurotransmitter that dealt with that disease from a list. We had to research our chosen topics and create a Wiki for the class website. My group chose to research Alzheimer’s disease and acetylcholine (which is the related neurotransmitter). I enjoyed researching this disease. My grandfather that passed away two years ago had this disease and I always wondered how it worked. When he was alive my family had to deal with him constantly forgetting one of his grandchildren or forgetting something that my grandmother had told him the previous day. It was a sad thing for all of us to see him go through. It’s never easy for a family to lose one of their family members to this disease. As I learned about the different stages I was able to compare my grandfather’s behavior with some of the signs of the specific stages. My grandfather definitely went through all the different stages. The last stage is forgetting almost everything, or things that are very important to you. My grandfather did suffer from this stage before he died. As I researched the disease I grew more and more uneasy from the things that I learned that people with Alzheimer’s go through. I always thought that Alzheimer’s was just a simple disease that old people went through as they lost their memories. I came to discover how the disease actually occurs and how acetylcholine plays a major role in the disease. Even though it was sad to learn what my grandfather went through, I like being able to understand what he went through and why. Much more information on this disease can be found on the Wiki’s that my group members and I worked on. Although I like working with my friends, I also like working with people that I’m not well acquainted with. I love getting to know people. From all of these group projects, my fellow classmates and I have developed skills in working with people who we are not as comfortable with or who we are not as familiar with. We get to work with these people and discover their different strengths and weaknesses (which I am sure we will have to do in college and our chosen career).