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    Empathy: How Perception Relates to Compassion Rebecca Wildman Mind and Brain Prof. Tong Word Count: 1624 Have you ever watched a video clip of a person getting injured, and then winced and felt pain in a similar area of your body? Sometimes, when someone else hits their knee or elbow on something, do you find yourself saying “ouch” or clutching yourself? Empathy is what allows you to feel the pain of someone else though you are not physically experiencing it. Some studies have shown that the empathic

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    The Human Brain

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    Many people do not understand the complexity of the human brain. Just as when one goes to buy a car they focus on the outside features instead of what is under the hood and how it works. Just as a car has an engine and other features working the car, the brain has different functions that control not only your movements, but also the way that you perceive the world. With the brain only weighing around three pounds it is known to be the best “computer system” there is. The brain has to communicate

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    Endocrine System Iesha Alexander, Racquel Shannon, Jerome Crumsey & Richard Parker Dorsey School of Nursing BIO 102 Endocrine System The endocrine system is inclusive of the glands of the body and the hormones they secrete. The secretion of these hormones helps to control numerous bodily functions. Hormones are chemicals that work in correlation with your body’s systems to function properly! These hormones are secreted directly into the bloodstream. Some of the systems controlled by the endocrine

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    The endocrine system is made up of cells and glands that make hormones and release them into the blood. These hormones help to regulate reproduction, sleep, metabolism, cell growth, and development. The word endocrine is a derivative from two Greek words: “endo”, which means within or inside, and “krinis”, which is a verb for secrete. In the endocrine system, there are different glands that each excrete different hormones. All of these glands are ductless, and secrete their hormones straight into

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    As an adolescent, hormones are raging and as their brains are continuing to develop hormones play a big role in their future learning and memory. The hormonal fluctuations of adolescent stress coupled with their gonadal hormone ups and downs, impact their learning capabilities and memory retrieval. Males with the predominance of testosterone learn in a unique way and exhibit certain advantages like spatial learning over females. Females on the other hand, with the predominance of estrogen exhibit

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    infused sevin in mg / KgBw % Inhibition 0 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 Whole brain ChE NOS nos 18.0 31.50 13.2 27.0 11.1 22.5 9.7 18.7 7.3 16.4 60.0 48.0 Basal ganglia ChE NOS 27.0 28.0 19.0 25.50 15.9 22.00 12.6 16.00 9.4 15.50 65.0 44.6 Frontal cortex ChE NOS 12.4 24.0 7.0 23.00 5.1 18.50 4.6 12.50 3.5 13.00 72.0 45.8 Medulla ChE Oblongata NOS NOS 13.5 27.0 7.9 21.50 6.2 16.00 4.7 13.50 2.9 11.60 78.0 57.0 Pons ChE NOS 12.6 26.0 5.9 22.50 3.8

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    Concussions In Football

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    American football is a contact sport accountable for generating copious amounts of concussions through extrinsic factors (such as temperature and altitude), as well as aspects corresponding to certain positions of players and types of play utilized within games (Yengo-Kahn, Johnson, Zuckerman & Solomon, 2015). Despite available rehabilitation treatments, concussive impacts are culpable for the diagnosis and lingering of an array of hardships upon even the experts of this sport. However, undercounting

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    Dating Teenagers

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    things that teens do are the things that they get good at. If you practice something you will remember it. If you don't do something for a while, you will forget how to do it. Teens tend to take more risks when they are with their friends. The frontal cortex of the human brain doesn't fully develop until you are in your early to mid twenties (First article). Tho teens do score way better then kids around ten on brain development test, they do not score as well as many adults. As a result of this many

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    Imagine this; thousands of your brain cells are lost, rotting away as you sit at therapy to help your dementia, all due to one thing you couldn’t win. A video game you constantly play for “fun”. People have constantly argued whether video games are good or bad for you. Parents are highly against this due to the affect it may have on their children, while as kid believe they are good for themselves because they solve problems, make better decisions for a character and how to use your supplies, according

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    Art therapy is a Multi-Functional Psychological therapy that helps the mental mind in connecting things that are disconnected like a patient with alzheimer's where the patient's medial temporal lobe that’s the part of the brain that controls memory. The medial temporal lobe is vital in the brain because that is where the brain recollects the memories and stores them. When you get older the lobe gets weaker in which causes it to disconnect thus causing “memory loss” or dementia. In art therapy we

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