Brain damage

watch and support the game of Football? Since the creation of the sport back in 1869, brain damage has presented a difficult obstacle for players of collegiate and professional levels. Erich Buckman, a lifelong Football fan who writes for Los Angeles based TV states, “The thrill of watching a player get up after a big hit has been replaced with the concern that he has unknowingly suffered permanent brain damage, something the NFL has gone to extreme lengths to cover up.” Because of the

Introduction The human brain is a complex structure that gives an individual the cognitive ability to perform a variety of actions. The cerebellum, hypothalamus, hippocampus and Wernicke’s area of the brain work together to help coordinate different impulses and actions. A regular activity- such as bathing my daughter would become severely hampered if damage were to occur in these areas of the brain. Cerebellum “Receives sensory input from the eyes, ears, joints and muscles about the present position

Examining the influence of brain damage on object location memory (OLM) may reveal the importance of impacted regions of the brain and in turn identify specific interventions needed. Multiple models have been developed to understand the complex nature of memory. These models include: the multi-store, working memory and object-location (Lawton, 2011).Object-location is the ability to remember the position of items in our environment (Shih, Meadmore & Liversedge, 2012); it is made of up of three distinct

The news article I have decided to focus on is called “Chronic Stress Can Damage brain Structure and Connectivity”. The author, Christopher Bergland, discusses a study that was done at Berkeley and researchers discovered that chronic stress actually causes long-term changes in the brain. Bergland (2014) makes an interesting point in the beginning of the article about how children who are exposed to chronic stress are more likely that have problems with anxiety and mood disorders. A majority of the

The Reality of Brain Damage from Football Introduction to Psychology Northcentral Technical College Stacy Schmidt Football brain injuries are somewhat common and people are more aware of the types of damage it can cause to the brain. A concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury. It can occur after an impact to the head or after a whiplash-type injury that causes the head and brain to shake quickly back and forth. Concussions are usually not life-threatening, but they can

I would not give my son permission to play football because it will cause concussions and bodily injuries, promotes violence, and causes permanent brain damage and death. After reading recent studies of what could occur when playing football for many years. In the article, ¨Football Can Damage Kids Brains, Even If They Don't Have Concussions¨ state's children who start to play tackle football before the age of 12 have a risk of behavioral and emotional troubles when adults. In the game you could

Have you ever wondered what power can do to you? In Jerry Useem’s article, Power Causes Brain Damage, he simply explains it all. He explains how power affects your brain by giving examples of experiments and studies done by scientists. Jerry Useem starts his article off connecting power to a prescription drug. He wants to open the idea that power can be just as bad. The first example mentioned in the article is the scandal involving the CEO of Wells Fargo, John Stumpf. This happened a few months

that children who nearly drown don’t have as bad of brain damage as previously thought. To convey this, the article showed a 17 month old boy named Conrad who almost drowned and was left with great brain damage. After several months of recovery, Conrad could barely move and was unable to speak. Although he seemed in a vegetative state, his mom still wanted to see the extent of the damage. The problem with evaluating young children for brain damage is that their brain’s haven’t fully developed so it

metabolizes the alcohol. This can lead to a decrease in brain cells, abnormal location of neurons, and gross malformation to the brain. Since alcohol causes this central nervous system damage, it is classified as a neurobehavioral teratogen, which is a group of teratogens that cause brain damage and modify behaviors. (Riley & Vorhees, 1986). The CNS damage is the primary defect due to alcohol and it is quite common to have these damages without any physical abnormalities. The more alcohol that

Discussion: MSUD is a disorder of BCAAs metabolism with a frequency of 1/185,000 live newborns all over the world, while incidence is quite high in Eastern part Pennsylvania as high as 1 in 200(1). It is an autosomal recessive hereditary metabolic disorder is due to defective oxidative decarboxylation of the branched-chain alphaketoacids (BCKAs) derived from transamination of the the BCAAs, valine, leucine and isoleucine. The oxidative decarboxylation of this BCKAs is catalyzed by the branched-chain