Brain Disease Endangers Football To a high school football player‚ the idea of a disease being severe enough to endanger his revered sport likely evokes outrage‚ or at the very least‚ a severe case of skepticism. And understandably so. Football has defined our culture‚ and for many‚ served as a proud way of life for nearly a century. Without football‚ high school -and really all of America- just wouldn’t be the same. Unfortunately‚ new studies demonstrate that this “disease” may hold some
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What I learned in this unit is that the brain is made up of several special parts‚ each of them work in different parts. The brain has many jobs. It controls our spinal cord‚ our central nervous system and our nervous system. The spinal cord carries messages to the brain and also to the nerve cells that carry messages from the brain. Your body senses everything. Like something smashing your toe. You react to it. It all sends itself to the brain and it reacts. The cerebrum‚ controls thinking
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Abstract This paper explores the meaning of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and how it affects children and adolescents through their school years. The paper will first introduce what a traumatic brain injury can be‚ how it can be identified‚ and what the affects can be to the students. There will be two peer reviewed journals that speak on types of TBIs. The first article is based around information on Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS)‚ where the second article focuses the impact of post-traumatic stress
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Dr. Louann Brizendine’s book “The Female Brain” is an elaborate look at how women tick. This book has proven‚ thus far‚ to be a nice addition to our class work. It is contemporary piece of literature that combines both neuroscience and real life anecdotes that give insight into the minds of women. In the introduction‚ “What makes this woman”‚ Brizendine takes a difference perspective by stating some basic differences of women and men. I really appreciate her curious nature toward the topic. “While
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Concussions and Developing Brains Mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI)‚ otherwise known as concussions‚ occur in people from infants to senior citizens. A concussion occurs when a person’s head suffers a sudden impacting force‚ usually a blow to the head‚ and the brain gains momentum in the free space between it and the skull‚ and slams into the skull. Concussions are characterized by a sudden loss of brain function‚ and other emotional‚ intellectual‚ and behavioral changes. In today’s youth football
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Neurogenic Diabetes Insipidus‚ Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone‚ and Cerebral SaltWasting Syndrome in Traumatic Brain Injury Trauma Topic Description: This article focuses on Central Neurogenic Diabetes Insipidus (CNDI)‚ Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone (SIADH)‚ and Cerebral Salt-Wasting Syndrome in Traumatic Brain injury (CSWS). Comparison of lab results and treatments are reviewed. Topic objectives: At the end of this topic‚ the participant will
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Traumatic Brain Injury A description and criteria for Traumatic Brain Injury using DSM-IV-TR According to the Center for Disease Control‚ a traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an individual sustains a jolt to his head or a piercing head damage that interrupts the functions of human brain. The degree of TBI varies from mild to traumatic. Mild TBI occurs when a person loses consciousness for a short period. Traumatic TBI on the other hand occurs when an individual experiences long-term period
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find new ways of interaction. The most crucial field of research is Brain Computer interface. Primary destination of this study is to show the possible designs and illustrate a device which can recognized brain signals as input with the help of researches which are done in the past. Moreover‚ in this study the users of a device will also be discoursed. HOW BCI ADDING NEW FUNCTIONALITIES TO HCI? Why need brain computer interfaces? Brain Computer Interfaces give utterly another means to people to communicate
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A traumatic brain injury is potentially one the most devastating disabilities. It not only affects the person suffering from the injury but can turn whole families upside down. The range and severity of problems arising from a brain injury will vary significantly from person to person because every person’s brain injury varies in the extent and location of the damage. Some of the affects of a brain injury are not immediately obvious and only become apparent as time progresses. The following are
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Brain injuries in football have to be prevented at all cost. The sport is very dangerous on all levels. The proper safety is not in place to protect the players lives.Many lives have been affected negatively and some lives were even lost due to violent nature of the game. As the captain of the football team twenty year old Owen Thomas committed suicide during his senior year at the University of Pennsylvania (Schwarz). When his brain was studied after his death it was found that he had a rare case
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