...Health Benefits of Running In the modern community, more and more people choose running for a workout and running has become one of the most prevalent sports. A considerable number of people are accustomed to run every day. Some people like to run in the morning, while others prefer to run in the evening. Generally speaking, not only running is an easier way to do exercise, but also the most important thing is that running is beneficial to health. Running can reduce anxiety, prevent cancer and promote brain plasticity. Running is beneficial for reducing anxiety. This is also the reason why some people under stress select running. Some people who are under great stress feel relax and release tension after running. They seem to forget the stress that they had before. Landers who conducts analyses about anxiety, points out that “Running or other exercise are associated with reductions in anxiety, but only for aerobic forms of exercise” (A Meta-Analysis). The aerobic forms of exercise have characteristics of low intensity, having rhythm, no interruption and lasting for a long time. People running under aerobic forms will breathe normally and feel relaxed. Apparently, people running under anaerobic forms can’t breathe enough oxygen and will easily feel more tired. Maybe this will affect people to work or study. Each exercise has two aspects. If people run in error way it will not be benefit for health. In contrast, people run properly will achieve reducing anxiety. Another benefit...
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...III. Stroke’s Effect on the Body When at looking a stroke’s effect on the body there multiple different places that all culminate together to end up effecting the person’s gait. As stated before a stroke effects the brain. This is where all of the damage happens that ends up causing a domino effect of side effects. Once the brain is effect by a stroke the next area that is majorly effected is the nervous system. The nervous system is made up of the central nervous system (CNS) and the peripheral nervous system (PNS). When a stroke happens the brain cells that control a certain nerve die and once this happens the nerve can no longer receive a signals from that part of the brain so the victim loses that ability. This moves down to the PNS and...
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...love, or the effects of love. In an article written by Tara Parker-Pope of the Wall Street Journal, Pope discusses the possibility of “love” running out in a long-term relationship. She also says, “Recent studies of brain scans show that being in love causes changes in the brain that are strikingly similar to serious health problems like drug addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder.” This is interesting because in class discussions, we have come to the conclusion that love is a feeling and emotion, which generally has a positive connotation but is different for everyone. As far as love running out in a long-term relationship, we discussed Eros and having a sense of desire when it comes to a relationship. These are two different views on the same topic, both of which make a good case. The article by Pope discusses a scientific study done where they took “15 subjects who were deeply in love but were nursing broken hearts.” When they showed them pictures of someone they knew but were unattached to, there was no effect on their brain. When pictures of the one they loved were shared, the “picture triggered the dopamine system in the brain.” This goes to show that love is actually a real thing. Therefore, I believe that Pope’s scientific approach to love, and Eros, are very similar. Eros is described as having a deep, passionate, and intense feeling towards someone. With the tested subjects, there was proven evidence, that there was a chemical change in the brain, which shows...
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...Tina B. Crews Ashford University PSY 350 Physiological Psychology Instructor: Jennifer Shultz July 09th, 2012 Running Head…… Depression 1. Introduction There are many individuals in the world that are depressed for many different reasons. For example, many individuals can become depressed as a way of reacting to loss of a love one, a job, life's struggles, or a low self-esteem. When depression occurs, many individuals experience feelings of intense sadness including feeling helpless, hopeless, and worthless. These symptoms may last for days to weeks and may keep a person from being able to function normally.I chose this topic to understand why individual may become victims of depression as well how different treatment alternative can assist individuals to cope with depression. According to the article there are many different signs as well as causes of depression. To name a few of the signs of...
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...A concussion is temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head or violent shock. Concussions have been known to have long term effects on people which has raised concerns about the effect it has on teen players. Teen players are still at a young age in which their brain is still developing and is more vulnerable to brain injuries than adult athletes. Running plays are the leading cause for injuries in both high school and college football, and in high school it accounted for the majority of season ending injuries and concussions. I know this because the text states, ”Running plays were the leading cause of injury in both high school and collegiate football, and in high school they accounted for the majority of season-ending injuries and concussions. Positions with the greatest risk of injury were running backs and...
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... Page 7-10 Possible Treatments for ADHD Page 11-12 Medication for ADHD Page 13 Evaluation Page 14 Conclusion Page 15 Bibliography Page 16-17 Introduction As part of the assessment in my Psychology module, my tutor has asked me to select an illness for my second assignment. The assignment must be informative and well researched. I am expected to cover the basics of the illness. I have decided to do my assignment on (ADHD) Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, I have chosen this disorder as I have not got much knowledge or proper understanding of it and would like to educate myself more and file it in my brain with all the other illnesses/disorders I do know about. ADHD is a well known disorder yet there seems to be a lot of confusion on the topic also. Within the assignment I plan to research the topic to the best of my ability through media, books, magazine, internet and organisations where it is possible. I will cover the causes, symptoms, treatments, look into help groups and centres, my aim is to get a clearer understanding of how the disorder comes about basically live the life of an ADHD patient and see how life is through their eyes. I will finish my assignment with my own thoughts and evaluation on the knowledge I have gained and finally I will list the information sources I have used. ...
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...former players are a lot more common. Tragic reports about former players committing suicide, as well as incidents amongst the youth. Dangers of Football Football is arguably the most dangerous contact sport in America. Head injuries and concussions have always been a part of the game. The number of tragic cases and the lifetime effects that experts are beginning to witness on the older players, make experts question the health of the youth’s future in the sport. People do not take sports related head injuries as seriously as they should. Many NFL players who did not tend to their head injuries like they should’ve were known to have had C.T.E. (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy). Many cases and reports about head injuries go to show why athletes, parents, doctors and even coaches should start taking head injuries more seriously. When we think of a concussion in football, we instantly think about a hard head clashing tackle, or a blindside hit on the quarterback, not knowing that a concussion can occur from something as little as a player getting tripped up and hitting their head on the turf the wrong way. Players don’t truly understand the effect that a tiny injury may have on you, and if that injury is not treated it will create even bigger health issues. This leaves question in the air of “why should athletes take head injuries...
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...Running, Mind, Body, and Sole Health Benefits Running may be painful and tiring, but it has also become a very popular past-time all over the world. Running can benefit your entire body while keeping you fit and in shape. Studies show that running five miles a day can burn up to two thousand calories at a time. Running is a cost effective easy activity that anyone can do anywhere. Running cannot only be beneficial to your body but also to your mind therefore it helps your health in many ways. Knowing how beneficial running is has made it very popular in the last few years. By increases your health overall why wouldn't you consider it? In addition to losing weight, relieving stress, improving lung function, also running will help boost your immune system. A free, besides a good pair or running shoes, the activity that can benefit your way of life seems like a smart thing to start. There are so many more benefits to running that should get people motivated. Running is an easy, free, excellent way to lose weight and maintain the weight loss. Once achieve your targeted weight running will help you stay consistent. Running is an effective exercise that burns the most calories per minute. "Syracuse University researchers measured the actual calorie burn of 12 men and 12 women while running and walking a mile each. The men burned an average of 124 calories while running, and just 88 while walking; the women burned 105 and 74." (www.RunnersWrold.com, How Many Calories...
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...Running Head: COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND THE EFFECT ON THE BRAIN 1 Computer Technology and the effect on the brain Malcolm Alexander Park University Table of contents 1. Abstract 3. Research and Development 5. Summary of data/conclusion 6. References COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND THE EFFECT ON THE BRAIN 2 Abstract Computer technology has been around in our lives for a few century’s changing our lives for better and worse. The first set of evidence of mechanical calculating appeared in the 17th century as well as the first recorded word of computer. What we know as our modern day computer was first introduced around the 19th century. Since then computer technology has been advancing every day, making past technology obsolete very quickly. Nowadays computer technology is part of most people’s life. In the 1960’s people on average would watch around 5 hours of media compared to today’s 12 hours (Wells, 2010). Yet with all of this advanced technology how is it affecting our brains and body? In this paper I will attempt to answer these questions. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY AND THE EFFECT ON THE BRAIN 3 Computer technology is a part of many people’s lives in this modern age. Computers have made a big impact into our lives around the 19th century. Since then they have been advancing so quickly. Before they were thought of as...
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...stereotype of the "dumb jock" has never sounded right to Charles Hillman. A jock himself, he plays hockey four times a week, but when he isn't body-checking his opponents on the ice, he's giving his mind a comparable workout in his neuroscience and kinesiology lab at the University of Illinois. Nearly every semester in his classroom, he says, students on the women's cross-country team set the curve on his exams. So recently he started wondering if there was a vital and overlooked link between brawn and brains--if long hours at the gym could somehow build up not just muscles, but minds. With colleagues, he rounded up 259 Illinois third and fifth graders, measured their body-mass index and put them through classic PE routines: the "sit-and-reach," a brisk run and timed push-ups and sit-ups. Then he checked their physical abilities against their math and reading scores on a statewide standardized test. Sure enough, on the whole, the kids with the fittest bodies were the ones with the fittest brains, even when factors such as socioeconomic status were taken into account. Sports, Hillman concluded, might indeed be boosting the students' intellect--and also, as long as he didn't "take a puck to the head," his own. Hillman's study, which will be published later this year, isn't definitive enough to stand alone. But it doesn't have to: it's part of a recent and rapidly growing movement in science showing that exercise can make people smarter. Last...
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...emergency room. Based on the background information, Cassie’s current situation can be understood from the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) concept. ACEs are traumatic events that can have negative, lasting effects on health and well-being (Chapman, Dube, & Anda, 2007). Cassie is dealing with PTSD, which is a personal experience that involves actual threat to one’s physical integrity, due to her childhood trauma. Biologically, Cassie’s PTSD is impacting her brain development due to poor behavioral choices that are harmful to the brain. For example, Cassie’s out of control behavior puts her body in a state of arousal, and high alert because neurologically she doesn't have the capacity to return back to baseline where her parasympathetic nervous system kicks in and signals the brain to relax and rest (Cozolino, 2014). Therefore, the stress hormone cortisol remains throughout her body, which is toxicity to the body and mind....
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...Running head: PAIN CASE STUDY Case Study: Pain Amit Dhir, Omeid Heidari, Sean Mayer, Ololade Ikuomola & Adam Boyce NR110.542 Physiological/Pathophysiological Basis for Advanced Nursing Practice I 09/29/2015 Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing On our honor, we pledge that we have neither given nor received any unauthorized assistance on this assignment. 1 Running head: PAIN CASE STUDY CASE STUDY Pain Use this document in documenting your response to the Patient Case Questions. CHIEF COMPLAINT “My back is killing me. The pain is mostly sharp and stabbing, and sometimes it’s a dull ache. You’ve got to do something. Those Tramadol pills aren’t cutting it and they’ve bound me up.” “I am not sleeping because of the pain.” MEDICAL HISTORY P.M. is a retired, 81yearold male being seen for a routine health maintenance visit. He has a history of lower back pain, morbid obesity, hypertension, hypothyroid, occipital lobe stroke, bilateral total knee arthroplasty, GERD and sleep apnea. Now reporting pain in feet. He has been a smoker for the past 64 years, reporting 12 ppd. He is accompanied by his wife of 62 years. CURRENT MEDICATIONS Tramadol 50100 mg p.o. Q 12 hrs prn back pain Atenolol 25 mg p.o. Q a.m. Levothyroxine sodium 125 mcg p.o. Q a.m. Clopidogrel 75 mg p.p. Q a.m. Ibuprofen 600 mg ii p.o. prn knee pain Aspirin 650 mg p.o. prn “when I can’t get to sleep” ...
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...The Spark Study Mindy Bacon. Clark Community College The Spark Study Americans have increasingly become sedentary, non-active people. This results in obesity, an alarming rise in type two diabetes, attention deficit problems, heart disease, and chronic depression in both adults and now is an epidemic in children. This book explains why physical activity especially aerobic activity is crucial to the way our brains learn, affect mood, depression, stress and attention. In Chapter one of “Spark, The Revolutionary New Science Of Exercise And The Brain”, shows how exercise improves brain functioning. A revolutionary case study was performed in a school district outside of Chicago. Naperville Central High School in Illinois transformed nineteen thousand students into very healthy and fit students with only 3 percent overweight versus 30 percent overweight nationally (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). The students are also among the smartest in the nation. In 1999 Naperville’s eighth graders took an international standards test: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). Asian countries have out performed United States of American students in math and science for many years. As stated in the New York Times, most Asian countries score well, almost half of the students score in the top, while only 7 percent of U. S. students do (Ratey & Hagerman, 2008). The children from Naperville, Illinois took the TIMSS and astonished the world. They scored...
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...Taylor Daily U0677774 11/04/14 Article #3 “Good Habits, Bad Habits” The article I choose to read researched the neurological effects of habits on our brain and if it was possible to change our habits. We all struggle with habits that make us less productive or less efficient but that said we also have many habits (actions we don’t think about) that help us get through a day without wasting time with extra thinking. It is interesting from the article that our brain can make habits but cannot seem to forget them. They are stored even when not being used for a later date and time when needed. Our brains are working and thinking even if we aren’t aware of it. In the Infralimbic cortex of our brain, habits are stored and the actions that go along with them. That part of our brain is active when we go pour a bowl of cereal, or make a cup of coffee in the morning. It is the same routine and our brain isn’t wasting time or energy thinking about things we do everyday, these routines are habits. From an evolutionary standpoint it makes sense that our brains would create habits to help us only focus on the most important parts of the day, and let us focus of figuring out how to stay alive. It comes in handy in a tight situation to not have to think when a quick decision is demanded. Brains in humans and animals have habits that are stored for our safety and helping us get by day to day. A good example of a habit most people learn is driving a car. There is a lot of thinking going...
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...Types of exercise Physical exercises are generally grouped into three types,[7] depending on the overall effect they have on the human body: Flexibility exercises, such as stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints.[8] Aerobic exercises, such as cycling, swimming, walking, skipping rope, rowing, running, hiking or playing tennis, focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance.[9] Anaerobic exercises, such as weight training, functional training, eccentric training or sprinting and high-intensity interval training, increase short-term muscle strength.[10] Categories of physical exercise Strength training Agility training Eccentric training Resistance training Interval training Continuous training Sometimes the terms 'dynamic' and 'static' are used. 'Dynamic' exercises such as steady running, tend to produce a lowering of the diastolic blood pressure during exercise, due to the improved blood flow. Conversely, static exercise (such as weight-lifting) can cause the systolic pressure to rise significantly (during the exercise). Categories Physical exercise is used to improve physical skills. Physical skills fall into the following general categories: Cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, Stamina, Strength, Flexibility, Power, Speed, Coordination, Agility, Balance, and Accuracy.[11] Metabolic equivalent of task The Compendium of Physical Activities was developed for use in epidemiologic studies to standardize the assignment...
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