In some video games, zombies come to eat you, but can this happen in real life? Someone coming back to life is not probable, but if there was a specific virus to damage specifc parts of your brain, you could become a zombie.
Some diseases like Rabies use Retrograde Axonal Transport to get to where they want in the body by in this case, traveling through neurons (cells that make up most of our brains). The virus would spread to the Ventromedical Hypothalamus, which tells you you're full, the Amygdala, which controls emotion and memory, and the frontal cortex, controlling problem solving and impulsive actions. The infections of these specific parts of the brain would result in an angry zombie that doesn't recognize family or friends, and the extreme desire to feed on human brains.
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Some diseases like Rabies use Retrograde Axonal Transport to get to where they want in the body by in this case, traveling through neurons (cells that make up most of our brains). The virus would spread to the Ventromedical Hypothalamus, which tells you you're full, the Amygdala, which controls emotion and memory, and the frontal cortex, controlling problem solving and impulsive actions. The infections of these specific parts of the brain would result in an angry zombie that doesn't recognize family or friends, and the extreme desire to feed on human brains.
I found my information HERE
Interesting.... Remember it did say hypothetically there could be rabies which produce zombie like traits. I'm always amazed at how sci-fi movies/books always start with a science base and then take it to an extreme. How would I get ready for a zombie then? :-)
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