What does the brain do with sulphur?
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Taurine is a sulphur containing amino acid-a colorless crystalline compound- found in free form in invertebrates and in the biles of mammals.It is present in most cells of the body-adrenal glands, blood,cardiac muscle and the brain.\nTaurine is a metabolic factor involved in the conjugation and excretion of bile acids. It is an important regulator of various muscle systems and is essential for proper growth.It promotes intestinal absorption of lipds(fats) as chlole\n\n\netc,,etc,,-------
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It has its basis in brain structure.  I saw it on Discovery Channel a while back.
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The tongue has receptors in it, that distinguish different molecules, which the brain interprets and records, and uses for reference later on. In conjunction with the tongue, the nose differentiates smells that coincide with tastes, and are also recorded somewhere in the brain. "Taste" is actually smell and taste, as interpreted and learned by our brain! :)
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it blocks the pain receptors in your brain. So you're brain doesn't "register" that there is pain.\n\nI'm not sure of the exact chemical pathways.
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The brain is part of the nervous system.  The smallest component of the nervous system are axons, which have a head and a tail.  Millions of these line up head to tail and form the nerve endings in your body.  In the space between each head and tail (called a synapse) chemicals can flow.  When something happens (you prick yourself), an axon signals chemicals to flow between the synapse, activate the next axon, and the next until the message reaches your brain and you react.  Different drugs affect the ability for these chemicals to flow across the synapse (speeding up, slowing down, or not at all) or wipe out axons all together leaving gaps in the message chain.
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Many of the drugs were sulfur based. Also aspirin, neosynephrin, tincture of iodine, mercurochrome, Gentian's Violet, unguentine
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The olfactory area is the area responsible for the sense of smell. Molecules of thigns that smell are stumuli for the olfactory nerves that send electric signals to ur brain and u get the sense fo smell.
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The human brain controls heartbeat, respiration, digestion and other autonomic functions. It is the seat of thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The brain is what makes the cognitive mind possible such as perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories.\n\nWhile all that is good and fine if this is a homework question for elementary school or middle school just put down that it controls thoughts and emotions or something less complicated.
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Many people have given the correct answer--it's to increase the surface area--but that doesn't really say *why*.  Your brain is divided into white matter and gray matter.  The white matter makes up the interior.  It's white due to a fatty insulator created by astrocytes which wrap around the axons of neurons (the axons are a lot like wires that move information from one place to the next).\n\nThe exterior is called the cortex, and it's known as the gray matter.  It's a thin layer around the outside and the surface of the "wrinkles".  BTW, the term for the "wrinkles" are fissure for the really deep ones, and sulcus (plural sulci) for the smaller ones.  The gray matter appears gray because there aren't any of the insulators.  The insulation in the white matter makes nerve impulses travel quicker, but it gets in the way of the neural connections (and the way nerve cells work is by making connections to eachother and sending chemical messages between cells).  So in the gray matter, we find no insulation, but that's where all of the connections are made.\n\nThe more connections you make, the more complex your behavior can be.  The patterns formed by the connections are what dictate the complexity of cognition and perception.  Less intelligent animals have smaller and smoother brains.  In order to have a large cortical area, the brain folds up.\n\nHope that helps a bit.
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because the body cannot live without BRAIN
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See the below link of the definition of muscarinic.  My best guess is that it is a type of neural receptor that takes in this stuff called muscarinic, which would be a good thing since it is highly toxic stuff to have in your body.  The receptor would be a good thing in the brain because it would recieve the toxic alkaline, therefore removing it from the environment of the brain. \n\nThis is just my best guess based on limited psychology classes and wikepedia.  Good luck!
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There is a school of thought that there is no such thing as sulphurous acid, that what is referred to as sulphurous acid is merely a solution of sulphur dioxide in water,\n\nHaving said that, "sulphurous acid" is a mild reductant and might reduce aqua regia, which is a strong oxidant due to the nitric acid content.  In practice, dilution would be more important than than the reduction using sulphurous acid but you could get the effect by bubbling gaseous sulphur dioxide through the aqua regia.\n\nIn point of fact, I have my doubts whether sulphur dioxide would act as a reductant under these conditions; I suspect the kinetics would be very slow.  If it did, you might see reduction of gold to metal or possibly precipitation of gold chloride.
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Gray matter.  It controls everything else.\n\n\n\nIn theory...
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Great Question!Here is some information about how the brain works:\n\nHow does your brain work?\n\nYour brain is the hub of your nervous system. It is made up of 100 billion nerve cells - about the same as the number of trees in the Amazon rainforest. Each cell is connected to around 10,000 others. So the total number of connections in your brain is the same as the number of leaves in the rainforest - about 1000 trillion.\nYour brain is made up of 100 billion nerve cells - about the same as the number of trees in the Amazon rainforest.\n\nHow does your nervous system work?\n\nThe nervous system is a network of cells called neurones which transmit information in the form of electrical signals. Your brain has around 100 billion neurones, and each communicates with thousands of others - as many connections as in the world's telephone system, the biggest machine on the planet. Neurones communicate with each other at special junctions where chemicals help to bridge the gap between one neurone and the next. \nThe nervous system is a vast network of interconnecting neurones.\n\nMore about nervous connuections:\n\nThe electrical signals (nerve impulses) carried by neurones are passed on to other neurones at junctions called synapses. The signal may be directly transferred at electrical synapses or, if there is no physical link between adjacent neurones, the signal is carried across the gap by chemicals called neurotransmitters. By using neurotransmitters, the nervous system can alter the way a message is passed on. Each neurone communicates with many others and this contributes to the amazing complexity of the brain.Each neurone communicates with many others.\n\nHope it helps.
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Scientists are still trying to decipher exactly what is the mechanism by which we taste and smell.  But this we do know: vapors from the substance in question enter the nose and interact with receptor sites there that are keyed to specific responses in the brain.  The combination of the receptor sites that are activated by the vapor generate a signal that the brain interprets as "smell"/"odor"/"aroma" (take your pick).\n\nThink of the various smells you exerience each day -- pears have an ester known as n-amyl acetate that generates that characteristic smell.  Iso-amyl acetate smells like bananas.  \n\nAnd then there are the fouls smelling compounds -- usually containing sulfur -- such as hydrogen sulfide (rotten eggs), or  methanethiol (or methyl mercaptan) -- which is used to generate the smell in natural gas (which is otherwise odorless), or butanethiol -- skunk spray!\n\nAmines typically have a fishy, musty odor.  Fatty acids tend to have a rancid smell.\n\nEach of the chemicals I have mentioned has a variety of chemical structures, and some similarities: the thiols all have a -SH group in the molecule somewhere, which interacts with receptors in our noses to send a signal to the brain of YUCK!! NASTY!!  Most esters have a pleasant, fruity smell -- there, the characteristic group is R-C(O)O-R'.  Primary amines have the R-NH2 structure, secondary amines replace 2 hydrogens with organic groups, and tertiary amines replace all three hydrogens with organic groups, but they all have that nitrogen in there. \n\nI hope that helps.
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Interesting. The brain is a bundle of neurons, but it has no "feeling" itself.  An electrode inserted into the brain is painless.
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They come from the stem of the brain.