Brain

Alcohol can really harm your brain. For teens when they get drunk they affect their brain short- term. Some of the short-term effects could be doing things that are risky, such as having sexual intercourse (unprotected), driving while intoxicated, and they could even become violent. Not only will it affect the brain it will also affect the body in many ways including your memory, the decisions you make, and it can even cause death (drugabuse.gov). Drugs can also affect the brain, drugs like marijuana for

The article talks about the systematic review that was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Occupational Performance for People with Psychosocial, Behavioral, and Emotional Impairments After Brain Injury. The research was completed in association with American Occupational therapy association evidence based practice project. 1,512 articles were initially chosen from various databases such as Medline etc. However, only 35 met the inclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria

Marijuana continues to be the most widely used drug in the Western Hemisphere, its cognitive effects robustly revolve around memory. There have been many studies done on the chemical effects that marijuana has on the brain centers concerned with memory and learning. There are more productive studies relating to the effects of cannabis on short-term memory that show different memory processes effected by this drug. Though there is not much knowledge on the effects the drug has on long-term memory

Page 1 A lot of people have always wondered if caffeine has an affect on your brain. Well, along with your brain, caffeine can also affect many other parts of a person's body. Caffeine mainly has effects on the central nervous system and partly on the brain and muscles. Caffeine can have a negative effect on someone’s mood, actions, memory, how they feel, and on many other factors. “Caffeine is the most widely used

Music on the Brain, is a documentary film produced by ABCTV Catalyst in Australia. It is to inform people about the effects music can have on people with dementia, also known as Parkinson’s disease. It talks about the emotional connections that music can have within the brain. This documentary is directed to target older people that are effected by dementia or Parkinson’s. Throughout the documentary, the narrator, Dr. Jonica Newby, uses examples of the rhetorics ethos and pathos to capture her audience

How Caffeine Can Effect the Brain Many people start their day with a cup of coffee. According to John Hopkins, “Around 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine every single day in one form or another”. It seems if we need a wakeup call to our morning, many of us grab caffeine to give us that extra boost of energy. How much caffeine is ok for the average person each day? The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee from Healthgov.com recommend 3-5 eight ounce cups of coffee per day or up to 400 milligrams

Are there physical differences in the male and female brain? Are there gender differences in memory? If there are differences, do they begin as early as childhood or adolescence? As we age, and experience life, are men or women more superior in the recollection of memories? Even a novice in the study of gender and memory could presume that male and female’s brains are different, and they would presume correctly as evidenced by the results of many studies performed and the articles written to record

Nardine Samuel Mr. Pagnani Speech 3 February 2017 Informative Speech: Music and its effects of the brain Did you know that music is one of the few activities that utilizes the whole entire brain? Did you know that music can physically alter your brain structure? Today I am going to be talking about the power of music and its impacts and effects on the brain. Throughout my whole life I have always had a passion for music of all different types and genres. I listen to music wherever I go and during

I read the article called “Secrets of the Brain” by Carl Zimmer from the February 2014 issue of National Geographic. Zimmer told of a story of a 43 year old woman named Cathy Hutchinson suffered a massive stroke which caused her to lose movement ability, becoming completely paralyzed, and lost her ability to speak. Her doctors didn’t know if she was brain-dead or still mentally there, until one day Hutchinson’s sister asked Hutchinson if she could hear and understand her and Hutchinson looked up

Experts estimate that hundreds of thousands of Americans risk brain injury every year, and many do not realize it. In addition, a lot of doctors do not know it either. Given the amount of attention that head injuries have received, this can still be somewhat surprising. They even created a movie titled, "Concussion," to bring awareness of head injury to the professional sports industry. That has served as a flash point to help bring public awareness to it so that we can do our best to address the