Category Archives: Nervous System Review
Which Ps3 Version Is The Best To Get Currently?
I know im a few years behind the times but I have finally decided to get a PS3. I looked up several reviews and all and am kind of nervous about all the glitches and everything that I have heard about. Is there a system version that I could easily get and is still a trustworthy machine? The main thing is I want to be able to get the extended warranty just in case something does go wrong with it.
Please don’t try to convince me on any other console.
Wrote An Article Synthesis Need Help Finalizing.?
The following corrections need to made:
The response provides a summary information from some sections of the article; a synthesis should integrate information from different sections to create a meaningful point. What is the main point of the article? What is the personal meaning the candidate took from the article? What is the take-away message?
The paraphrase is lacking a reference and the in-text citation is not properly cited. Carefully review APA guidelines.
Synthesis
- Stress.
Stress is something many individuals believe it is a normal part of their life. Unfortunately, many of them also believe that it is inevitable and they can do nothing to avoid it. But this is not the case. In fact, stress has various causes, very different from each other. Its cause could be physical anomalies, like not managing to sleep enough or having a body related illness. In fact even a cold can cause stress if you don’t manage it correctly. This example tries to show that even what we consider to be ‘small anomalies’ or diseases can be root causes of stress.
Stress can also be caused from mental health related anomalies and disorders. Here, a major role is played from the psychological factors influencing our lives. For example, the death of a loved one could shock your nervous system and the first effect is stress. This is rather a harsh example but consider this other one. Even the insufficiency of funds to fulfill one’s desires can create stress. This can come from a temporary unemployment status or even everyday obligations and pressures in the work environment do have the stress-formation effect on you. It is this stress ‘feeling’ that makes you feel that you are not in control of your own life.
The way stress affects people depends on the individual it ‘attacks’. People react very differently to it. The most serious cases could lead to depression or even major depression and schizophrenia.
Of course the body has various mechanisms that react to stress and stress related incidents. But this happens in the first stages of the situation. If this stress situation is prolonged, as it might be in a work situation, it can lead to more serious problems.
Some major effects of stress relate directly to your health. Here we see that stress is not only caused by body diseases but it also affects them by becoming the cause of other diseases. Stress caused by emotions could influence the increase of your heart beatings. So, thus it will influence the increasing of the blood pressure; increase the production of stress hormones, including the notorious adrenaline. “All these things increase the work load on your heart and put more pressure to your blood circulation system.” (Simon, 2009, par. 4)
For individuals with heart problems this could result fatal. In fact, clinical tests show that even if the patient has only minor heart disease problems, still the result of stress can be a heart attack, sudden death or heart failure. There are sufficient empirical evidence to demonstrate correlation between heart attacks and sudden death due to stressful situations. In fact, as doctor Simon points out:
“These situations have been shown to increase significantly following the acute stress of natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis and as a consequence of any severe stressor that evokes “fight or flight’ responses.” (2009, para. 9)
Stress created by job related problems and issues is another form of creating heart problems. But there exist other times where we form our own stress. This own-formed stress contributes to coronary-related diseases. Here smoking and other faulty lifestyles could be dangerous and influence the formation of heart problems. “Traits like excess anger, hostility, aggressiveness, time urgency, inappropriate competitiveness and preoccupation with work.” (Simon, 2009, para. 12)
Studies have shown that even cigarette consumption do influence the increasing of blood cholesterol levels and thus contribute indirectly to heart problems. Like the increasing consumption of cigarettes because of work related problems there exist many other factors that do help the formation of stress which in turn influences, directly or indirectly, the general health of our bodies.
References:
Simon, H (13 February 2009). “Stress”. The About.com website. Viewed, 14 October 2009: http://adam.about.com/reports/Stress.htm?p=1
Paraphrase:
While we are not sure which causes which, depression and anxiety are often coupled with the inability to adapt to stress. When a person cannot adapt to stress, this can lead to a number of negative effects on their day to day life. For example, increased levels of stress mean decreased levels of happiness. This, in turn, results in deterioration of personal relationships. What is more, over time, as stress hormones are repeatedly released, a person can have a hyperactive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system. (About.com, 2009). When this happens, a
Anybody Tried The Bodiphier System?
I am contemplating trying the BodipHier relaxer system…it is supposed to be a “natural” relaxer and not have harsh chemicals in it. Supposedly, the primary ingredient is alkaline water. I just received it from the company a week ago. After examining it, I found it smells like a regular no-lye relaxer. I am a little nervous about this product because I have heard mixed reviews. If anyone has any experience with it, please answer this question!
My Puppy Needs Some Serious Help And I’m Unsure What To Do? Long Paragraph So Read Only If Willing To Help.?
So, just two days ago my mother and I picked up a foster puppy from a rescue group, and though that he would be my project for the summer, you know, house training him and getting him on a leash. Well, the week or so before we visited him, I noticed something was a little weird about him. We estimated his age at about 2-4 months, and he wasn’t playing around like a normal puppy should be, he sat in my arms and cuddled. He was found on the side of a road about a month ago, and was brought into the rescue group by some very kind people. Well, since he was dumped on the reserve in Alberta, he had a good chance of picking up diseases such as parvovirus and distemper. He came into the group, a farm inhabited by many dogs and cats, in a little bit of a daze. He slept all the time, had goopy eyes, and a little bit of a runny nose. They all though that it was just overwhelming and he was possibly scared because he could have been easily abused. They left him with no medical attention for the time they had him, which was about three weeks. Apparently he seemed to be getting more playful and adjusting to his surroundings. We came and picked him up on Saturday, but we noticed that all he ever seemed to do was sleep, eat and drink. Occasionally, he would get look around, but remaining in the same place. Only once did he get up on his own and walk around to find someone, we left him alone on the couch for about eight minutes. We decided it was time to take him to the vet, he’d had his first set of vaccines to cover distemper, parvo and something else. We took him to the first vet and they said that he is very sick, underweight and dehydrated. She said that distemper was out of the question, although it is common in reserve dogs. She said parvo could be the cause, but he was still eating and drinking, and had only coughed up a bit of Flem, and the diarrhea wasn’t there, just the poo was a little soft and liquid-y. She suggested a respiratory infection, due to shallow breathing. His temp. was a little high, just about one degree higher than normal. We were told to go to another vet, where our pup was given a parvo test, which showed up negative, which was a relief. The only things remaining were his dehydration and the possible chance of distemper, and the respiratory infection. The second vet though it could have been a esophageal thing, because of the one regurgitation. But it seemed kinda far out, so he ruled it out. The vet also though distemper could have been high, because of the reserve. But quote from pet-supplies-review.com the symptoms are ” * Conjunctivitis (watery or pus-like discharge from the eyes) X
* Fever (usually present but unnoticed)
* Pneumonia (coughing, labored breathing)
* Rhinitis (runny nose or discharge from the nose) X
* Mild eye irritation
* Lethargy or listlessness X
* Lack of appetite
* Vomiting
* Diarrhea”
The x’s are symptoms he has, which is only three, I do not think that is enough to diagnose him with distemper.
And again, “Once inhaled, the virus moves to the lymph nodes, where it rapidly begins reproducing. It then spreads through the lymphatic tissue and infects all the lymphoid organs. This takes only two to five days. After six to nine days have passed, the virus spreads to the blood, then to the cell lining of the respiratory, gastrointestinal, urogenital, and central nervous systems. Once it has done this, symptoms begin to appear.”
This statement does not match up with the pup’s condition. He came in three weeks ago, with the same symptoms as he has today. There’s no distemper on the farm/rescue group, the only way he could have caught it was on the reserve. I’m sorry if this does not make sense, it is hard to describe through typing. If he came in three weeks ago with the same symptoms, and would’ve caught it on the reserve, wouldn’t the virus be attacking his nervous system and be pretty much…well, dead? It says the virus is variable and progressive, and to remain in the same condition for three weeks seems a little odd for distemper. The owner of the rescue group has a deep passion for animals and has seen many cases of distemper, and does NOT believe that the puppy has distemper. She says there’s not enough symptoms and he wouldn’t have been able to catch it on the farm, and probably wouldn’t be alive right now.
I’m sorry for my ranting, but I am deeply sad about all this, it would just be so sad to see him go at such a young age, and after such a miserable life.
The vet really doesn’t seem to know what he’s talking about, he kept on switching the diagnosis and writing down incorrect information, almost changing it so he could get the diagnosis over with.
Please, please help if you are willing to. I’m also sorry for the incredibly long paragraph.