Jordan Tarr Paper 3 Laura Jenson April 16th, 2015 The article I chose for this assignment is from the New York Times and is titled “Brain is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop” and it discusses the effects that chronic stress can have on the human brain. It’s well known that stress is a fairly natural response to stimulus around us. It is our flight or flight response, which largely contributes to the continued success of the human race. When this stress becomes chronic and doesn’t allow
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Epilepsy Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that causes abnormal brain activity that causes seizure activity, unusual behavior and sometimes loss of awareness. Epilepsy affects females and males of all ethnic background and race. Children will sometimes outgrow epilepsy and some will live throughout adult hood. Some symptoms of epilepsy are confusion, uncontrollable jerking, and loss of consciousness, many other symptoms depend on the type of seizure that the person is having. The different
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The Brain influence on Sexuality According to Coon and Mitterer, the brain is known for being one of the valuable parts of the central nervous because it “carry out messages to the nervous system.” (2003, p. 56). But the brain has other tasks to complete on a daily basis. Chemicals in the brain can alter numerous sparks of feeling toward an individual of the same sex or opposite sex. Some sex hormones have a strong influence on brain chemistry. The mechanics of heterosexual male and female brains
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author of Learning a New Sport May Be Good for the Brain, writes about how and why learning a new activity such as a sport is favorable for one's brain. Reynolds supports the belief that learning a new sport is good for the brain as he is learning how to snowboard. Reynolds believes that playing a sport is good for your brain because he personally did a lot of research and studies about this topic. Reynolds also argues that if one wants their brain to be healthier it must be a physical activity that
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Imagine that your nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord abruptly start to die, the cells that control the muscles that allow you to move the different parts of your body abruptly start to die. This is what it feels like when your body is afflicted by a disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and was named after a famous athlete who was one of the first people to be afflicted. On Lou Gehrig’s 39th birthday, he was
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Anencephaly is a serious birth defect in which a baby is born without parts of the brain and skull. It is a type of neural tube defect; these are birth defects that happen during the first month of pregnancy, and it’s usually before a woman knows she is pregnant. Keywords: N/A Birth Defects: Anencephaly Birth defects are a structural or/and a functional of abnormalities that are present at birth that cause physical or mental disability. They’re the leading cause of death for infants and a fetus
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a. Throughout sleep in an average brain, deep sleep is the first thing that we notice in the first half of the of the sleep cycle. After deep sleep occurs, we enter the second half of the sleep cycle and this is where REM sleep begins to occur. After about twenty minutes into stage four of the sleep cycle, you would begin to go back into the initial stages and then back into REM sleep. For abut every hour and a half, the sleep cycle would repeat through these stages. However, there are some changes
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make it possible for him to have it (Sydney). The cause of cerebral palsy is usually the same, there are multiple symptoms that occur, and though there is no cure, there are several ways to help treat it. Cerebral Palsy (CP) is commonly caused by a brain injury in the fetus, such as lack of oxygen before, during, or even after birth. Though research has found that in about 1 in 10 cases the cause
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I never would have imagined there was any meaningful connection between neuroscience and music; that is, until, a couple classmates and I played a little ear-training game during guitar class. “Sing an E-natural,” I demanded. (There’s no way they won’t be able to guess this, I thought.) They all sang an E-flat. I froze momentarily. Without stopping to correct them, I selected different note. “Sing a B-flat,” I ordered. …Still they were a half-step off. I audaciously plucked a B-flat on my guitar
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condition “pre-senile dementia”, but his colleague later renamed the disorder as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). During the years that Dr. Alzheimer studied dimentia he was able to prepare over 200 slides from the brain of a middle-aged woman who had died in a Frankfurt Germany asylum. These slides of brain material, which were once believed to have been lost forever, were uncovered in 1997 at the University of Munich. A team of scientists examined the slides and found the key indicators of the disease were
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