Spark Book Review

This analysis persists of key points, about The article “Stress and the brain by Janet Elder”. The author forged an excellent informative piece to educate the reader on the effects of stress on the brain. The author states that “Stress can be both good and bad. It is part of life, and your brain and body respond to it”. The author clarifies that, "Whether stress is harmful or helpful depends on the amount of stress, how severe it is, and how long it lasts".

This book helped tremendously in developing a lot of skills that I have practiced over the years. When reading this book, I read it with a very critical eye. Reading the book this way helped me to not get caught up in any emotional turmoil that would cause me top read the book from a biased viewpoint. When reading works of any stance, reading with an open mind is very important when

What Did You Expect To Learn When You Picked Up The Book? To What Extent – And How Effectively – Were Your Expectations Met?

A study conducted by Harvard Medical School regarding on how could exercise help your brain and what kind of exercise will help your brain to have a better result. In this article, we learn that exercises can help your brain and can also help your memory. The researchers examined different people to try to understand what exercises could help your brain using 30 minutes section. In this study, the researchers randomly evaluate people doing exercises like cardio and compared their memory and their productivity with those that didn’t any type of exercises.

2. Effect of high stress threat can change and damage learning and even kill brain cells.

Overall, this book is a really deep thinking book, I haven't fully understand what the author is trying to teach us, but I love this process of stretching my

I believe this book has been an important step for me in considering the future

In the book Spark, written by Dr. John J. Ratey, he discusses how exercise can positively affect how your brain works. He provides studies and personal experiences to support the claims he makes. I always knew exercise would improve your life but never could have imagined how much it can affect your brain health as well. The chapter I thought spoke the most to me was chapter two, Learning: Grow Your Brain Cells.

The Last Lecture made me rethink the priorities in my own life. After reading the book, I feel as if I now have a better understanding of just how important life is and how quickly it can be taken

Overall, this book has astounded me even though it was too short. I rate That Place of Knowledge 4 out of 4 stars as it subsume more useful ideas, and I recommend to everyone who ought to be

Although a range of previous findings on stress physiology suggest that stress may have ameliorating or detrimental capacities, the possible connections between stress and diseases remain hotly debated despite its wide acceptability (Esch, 2002). Based on this premise, researchers have in recent years intensified investigation on the role of stress in various diseases such as neurological, mental, epidemiological, and cardiac diseases to mention but a few. Particularly, researchers in the field of stress research have been more concerned about the underlying mechanisms and pathophysiological pathways by which the onset of diseases are potentially influenced by stress, this domain however continues to be widely studied. For instance, it is believed that stress represents a major complicating factor in neurological illness and

Counseling clients enter the counseling session experiencing various aspects of stress and stress responses. This stress disrupts the homeostasis of the client’s physical body and causes the body to activate its survival mechanisms, which include immune, neuroendocrine, peripheral, hypothalamic-pituitary, and neurochemical systems (Weber & Reynolds, 2004). The stress response serves the purposes of altering and activating the system for survival if needed. The stress response can alter the brain’s functioning and its structure if deemed sufficient. It can become maladaptive if the compensatory stress response is fatigued and the system cannot return to pre-stress homeostasis levels. “Sensitivity occurs when neurochemical systems that mediates the brain’s stress response becomes irreversible and change” (Weber & Reynolds, 2004, p. 117). The repetition of the damaging reactions causes the brain to become more sensitive to any future events that are deemed stressful. After repeated acute stress situations, the brain stops fighting the damaging reactions and shuts down to stress to protect the system.

After reading the introduction and the first few pages of the text, I believe this book definitely opened my mind and research topic more to greater questions to ask myself and my audience.

This book is an eye opener, making you look at things in a different way changing your views and perspective of things we thought were impossible or that they had no relationship at all. He incentives you to formulate the correct questions by questioning everything that you feel curious about. Just remember what a genius once said, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."- Albert Einstein. Just remember how the book says

The articles by Erikson et al., Gatz, Korol et al., and Draganski et al. explore the concept of increased physical activity and/or mental activity having effects on the cognitive function and development or deterioration of the brain as we age. Although I agree that physical exercise is critical in increasing cognitive function because of the health benefits it provides, as well as the increased blood flow and circulation throughout the body, I ultimately believe that a healthy brain is not achieved solely by physical exercise or mental exercise, but both. I think there is a link between physical and mental exercise, and that the combination of these two activities creates higher cognitive functioning of the mind as well as the body. The mind and body come together and meet to make an overall healthy individual.