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Comment on Understanding the Amazing Brain Movie Reflection by crowkee

crowkee — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:51:52 +0000

Half a Brain, No More Pain

All the different people in the movie had some interesting brain conditions. I thought the girl who had half her brain taken out was the most interesting. The fact that the other half of the brain can take over the functions of the other half is pretty amazing. I was surprised how well she recovered from it. If the rest of her head filled with fluid, you would think she would have to be super careful with head injuries for the rest of her life. I still don’t really understand how her brain stays in place with half of it missing. After some research, I found out that hemispherectomies can be used for other kinds of physical trauma. People have survived things as severe as gunshot wounds in the brain. I would never have thought someone could have made it through that.

Comment on Understanding the Amazing Brain Movie Reflection by gonzjac

gonzjac — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:43:39 +0000

The Human Motor

This movie was amazing!!! I don’t remember many of the scientific/fancy words used but it is still awesome that a human can live with half of a brain. I think that that was the part that most amazed me. I never knew that a person could live with just half of a brain!!! That is crazy!! Or how the right side you our brain controls the left part of out body and the left side controls the right side of our body. My question about this is: does our memory capacity change with only half a brain? And would this affect a persons learning?

Im not sure about this being a fact, but it is a pretty amazing news article that i just had to post up here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1200958/Girl-born-half-brain-person-world-fields-vision-eye.html

Comment on Unknowingly Visiting A Dermatologist by sisostep

sisostep — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:06:13 +0000

Wow that is very interesting! That is something to to really impress the customers. I agree with creating a new program for future “Dr. hairdressers” to check customer’s scalp conditions. Who knows, maybe they can save lives by doing this since most people don’t normally check their scalps for any oddness.

In a different article I searched up, 203 professional hairdressers were surveyed from 17 salons, asking how often they check for abnormalities in the patient’s head. There’s more statistics, but I’d rather not put it all here.
37% said that they had looked at the scalps of half their customers
29% had examined the necks of more than half their clients
15% had checked the faces of more than 50 percent of customers

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011-10-18/Skin-cancer-check-may-come-with-new-hairdo/50812278/1

Comment on Mood Changes During Pregnancy May Harm Baby by sisostep

sisostep — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:46:43 +0000

It’s hard to stay on a certain mood until the appointed time of birth since it would simply take too long and it’s something that we can’t fully control. According to a different article, it says that 13 percent of pregnant women and new mothers go through depression. I agree with what your article said that when a mother is depressed, it is best to leave them alone. There’s little we can really do about mood changes so we should try to keep the risks as least as possible.

http://www.womenshealth.gov/publications/our-publications/fact-sheet/depression-pregnancy.cfm

Comment on Python Hearts Could Help Heart Disease by kellang

kellang — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:37:53 +0000

Medicines which include healthy amounts of triglycerides could be helpful to human hearts, but only levels of triglycerides that are normal for humans could be helpful. This website: (http://www.hearthealthyonline.com/cholesterol/cholesterol-basics/triglycerides_1.html) helped me understand triglycerides in humans a little better. Since triglycerides are “packaged” by the liver and pumped into the body, I doubt that they would have much effect on making the liver grow, but could effect other organs potentially. High levels of triglycerides in the body can be a warning sign that a patient is at risk for heart attack or diabetes. Levels are usually high when patients do not exercise or have poor diets. However, peoples’ triglycerides fluctuate after meals, experiencing a spike just like pythons do. So paired withe exercise and boosted with healthy meals, triglycerides could potentially be helpful for regrowing damaged organs such as the heart.

Comment on Extreme Training dangerous??? by kellang

kellang — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:42:07 +0000

The benefits of extreme exercise do outweigh the risks if the participant goes about it right. They cannot throw themselves into hard training right away, but need to build up to it, and like roemwill says, they need to be allowed to rest and recover. In this other article I found, it said that a very small percentage of heart attacks can happen from strenuous activity, but only in older people who are not accustomed to this activity. Professional athletes involved in extreme training should keep a close eye on their heart rates and listen to their bodies natural signals, but should not be put off of extreme exercise by the risks.

http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_effects_of_exercise_on_heart_circulation_000029_3.htm

Comment on Can Your Tap Water Kill You? by nolakei

nolakei — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:40:20 +0000

This really caught my eye, because i use a netti pot when i am sick. Kind of makes me nervous. But that is really strange how it will eat the neural tissue. I wonder where they got there water from. Does boiling your water first kill the PAME?

Comment on Can Your Tap Water Kill You? by crowkee

crowkee — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:59:47 +0000

That sounds like a fairly unpleasant way to die. It does seem like a pretty rare occurance. You would think people who do something like snort water into their head would want to make sure it was clean. Hopefully there aren’t high amounts of amoeba in our water systems, because you would think that could lead to large amounts of deaths.

Comment on Old & Rare Gene Mutation by crowkee

crowkee — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:55:46 +0000

Its crazy to think how long a single gene mutation has lasted. You would think that at some point thousands of years ago it would have “died out.” The line of carriers would have all died or it wouldn’t have been passed on. Maybe studying this disease could help with understanding how other diseases are passed on a survive for centuries?

Comment on Color change up. by gonzjac

gonzjac — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:30:44 +0000

This post is very interesting. It does make me wonder how it is that doctor Homer found this.
I think it would be kind of cool to change my eye color, even though I love my eye color, and as for the risk of going blind, it wouldn’t make much difference to me because I’m already legally blind.
In this website (http://www.blogrollcenter.com/news/change-eye-color-permanently/) I found says that the way that they found this new surgery was because there was albino people were trying to change their appearances. This surgery was first tried in Panama. According to the doctors this surgery cannot damage or help the eyesight of the person, so people that currently have astigmatism will have to continue wearing their corrective lenses.
You should really look at the website because there is an amazing picture of a person’s eye!!