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Ronnice Moore

Texas A&M International University - Laredo, Texas - 0 views

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  • Young adults—male and female—who play violent video games long-term handle stress better than non-playing adults and become less depressed and less hostile following a stressful task, according to a study by Texas A&M International University associate professor, Dr. Christopher J. Ferguson.
    • Ronnice Moore
      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      If this is factual then I will be excited that it is but has it been proven that it is factual?
  • “In this study, 103 young adults were given a frustration task and then randomized to play no game, a non-violent game, a violent game with good versus evil theme, or a violent game in which they played ‘the bad guy.’ The results suggest that violent games reduce depression and hostile feelings in players through mood management,” Dr. Ferguson explained.
    • Ronnice Moore
      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      If the id evidence that backs up the reason why video games help relieve stress, depression, etc then do they have statistics for it?
  • Ferguson said that the results of this study may help provide others with ways to come up with a mood-management activity that provides individuals with ways to tolerate or reduce stress.
    • Ronnice Moore
      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      Personally, when I play video games it distacts me form everything else. When Im mad one of the things that calms me down is playing video games. I've been doing that since I was 11 years old. If it's been working for me this long then I'm sure that my personal expierience with video gaming can back up this article.
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  • However, he suggested that video games could increasingly be used in therapy with young adults and teens.
    • Ronnice Moore
      Ronnice Moore on 17 Feb 13
       
      The "news" is that video games are being used in therapy to help young adults and teens. But they're not just violent video games, they're also health related video games. They have certain workout games like dance dance revolution, the micheal jackson video game, just dance, (etc.) all kinds of games that help with therapy which has been proven to be sucessful.
Katie Raborn

Newborn infants learn while asleep; Study may lead to later disability tests - 0 views

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leanrning while sleeping

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  • "We found a basic form of learning in sleeping newborns, a type of learning that may not be seen in sleeping adults
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Mar 13
       
      Newborns could learn while sleeping. How do they learn while sleeping? How do they figure that out? How come sleeping adults can't do that, since adults are more developed?
  • Dana Byrd, a research affiliate in psychology at UF
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Mar 13
       
      credible source
  • The findings give valuable information about how it is that newborns are able to learn so quickly from the world, when they sleep for 16 to 18 hours a da
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Mar 13
       
      When a newborn sleeps for 16 to 18 hours a day they are able to learn quickly about the world.
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  • ested the learning abilities of sleeping newborns by repeating tones that were followed by a gentle puff of air to the eyelids.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Mar 13
       
      They tested the newborns by the repeating tones. Could they test other things to figure out how newborns learn while sleeping? How do they know if they aren't just dreaming instead of learning?
  • After about 20 minutes, 24 of the 26 babies squeezed their eyelids together when the tone was sounded without the puff of air.
  • The brain waves of the 24 infants were found to change, providing a neural measurement of memory updating.
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Mar 13
       
      So brainwaves detect memory updating.
  • While past studies find this type of learning can occur in infants who are awake, this is the first study to document it in their most frequent state, while they are asleep
    • Katie Raborn
      Katie Raborn on 05 Mar 13
       
      Infants learn while their awake but can also be found while they are asleep.
  • Learned eyelid movement reflects the normal functioning of the circuitry in the cerebellum, a neural structure at the base of the brain. This study's method potentially offers a unique non-invasive tool for early identification of infants with atypical cerebellar structure, who are potentially at risk for a range of developmental disorders, including autism and dyslexia, she said.
  • Newborn infants' sleep patterns are quite different than those of older children or adults in that they show more active sleep where heart and breathing rates are very changeable," she said. "It may be this sleep state is more amenable to experiencing the world in a way that facilitates learning."
  • Another factor is that infants' brains have greater neural plasticity, which is the ability for the neural connections to be changed
Caitlan Granger

What Are The Long-term Effects Of Teenage Pregnancy? | LIVESTRONG.COM - 0 views

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pregnancy teenage effects

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  • Teenage mothers often experience social exclusion
  • they are twice as likely to feel depressed as compared to adult mothers
  • If the father is a teenager, he is more likely to begin to abuse drugs and alcohol than other boys his age
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  • Children born to teenage parents are more likely to lack proper prenatal care
  • also more likely to be born prematurely, have low birth weight, or become hospitalized during their childhood than children born to adults, states the March of Dimes. The same source says that babies of teenage mothers are more likely to die during their first year of life
  • the children of teenage mothers are more likely to drop out of high school, or become unemployed than the children of older women. They experience abuse and neglect quite often, and many of them become parents as teenagers.
  • Caitlan Granger on 09 Nov 12
     
    Many reliable sources and quotes, therefore this site is trustworthy.
  • Caitlan Granger on 09 Nov 12
     
    I find it strange that a child born from teen parents is more likely to become a teen parent themselves.
Natalie Mitten

What we can learn from procrastination : The New Yorker - 0 views

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  • The philosopher Mark Kingwell puts it in existential terms: “Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing
  • Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.”
  • The procrastinator’s challenge, and perhaps the philosopher’s, too, is to figure out which is which.
  • Natalie Mitten on 06 Nov 12
     
    Interesting. Long, never gets to an end point...sounds like something I would write. Many various sources, from economists to social scientists to philosophers. I found it interesting that academics and scholars were more prone to it, and that in the adult world there are many prime examples of procrastinations directly marring their gain (i.e., tax returns). 
Alexis Ramsey

Understanding General Canine Genetics - 0 views

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  • In the dog, there are 78 chromosomes existing of 39 matched pairs which make up the dog’s “genotype”. On the other hand, the dog’s “phenotype” is what the animal actually looks like and this can be influenced by both environmental and developmental factors. For example, a dog’s adult size is partially determined by his genotype but is also influenced by such factors as health and nutrition as a puppy.
    • Alexis Ramsey
      Alexis Ramsey on 27 Feb 13
       
      Dog size depends on the dog's "phenotype". This is influenced by both environmental and developments factors. Such as the heath and the way the dog grew up.
  • Dr. John Hill 5658 E. 22nd Street Tucson, AZ 85711 (520) 748-1415
  • Each gene provides the genetic instruction to make one protein or control one function. For example, the genes tell the cell to produce a certain chemical or to produce a specific characteristic like blue eyes.
Caitlan Granger

How Is Autism Treated? | What is Autism? | Autism Speaks - 0 views

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    • Caitlan Granger
      Caitlan Granger on 08 Mar 13
       
      Sometimes children and adults no longer "meet the criteria" to keep going back for treatment, but not exactly cured either
    • Caitlan Granger
      Caitlan Granger on 08 Mar 13
       
      Is this true? When was this info last updated?
Natalie Mitten

Childhood and Adolescent Television Viewing and Antisocial Behavior in Early Adulthood - 0 views

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    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 19 Feb 13
       
      Wonder what this does to impact the results. Is NZ television very different from that of other cultures? Would that cause a stronger/less strong correlation?
  • television viewing hours
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 19 Feb 13
       
      I find it interesting that they didn't look at what type of shows, specifically.
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  • Excessive television viewing in childhood and adolescence is associated with increased antisocial behavior in early adulthood
    • Natalie Mitten
      Natalie Mitten on 19 Feb 13
       
      I'll bet this study could be taken further -- what factors that cause kids to resort to T.V. may also cause them to be anti-social young adults?
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission To Hospital - MediLexicon - 0 views

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child address hospital Science

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  • Simply knowing a child's home address and some socioeconomic data can serve as a vital sig
  • predict which children admitted for asthma treatment are at greater risk for re-hospitalization or additional emergency room visits
  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
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  • ," based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees, also can help hospitals identify families likely to report financial or psychological hardship
  • linked to adverse asthma outcomes
  • Andrew Beck, MD
  • incinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • geocoded home addresses (grouping households by geographic area)
  • social risk index from assigned census tract regions.
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rates
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room.
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships
  • three times more likely to report psychological distress
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room.
  • The links between socioeconomic disparities and childhood asthma are well-established. Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • do little to account for how socioeconomic disparities affect asthma.
  • help to target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.
  • , they want to assess whether the introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • data helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 29 Oct 12
     
    Child's home helps predict risk of hospitalization
Katie Stevenson

Child's Home Address Helps Predict Risk Of Readmission to Hospital - 1 views

www.cincinnatichildrens.org/...predict-readmission-10-18-2012

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  • research in the American Journal of Public Health.
  • geographic social risk index
  • based on census measures of poverty, home values and number of adults with high school degrees,
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  • families likely to report financial or psychological hardship – both of which are linked to adverse asthma outcomes, says Andrew Beck, MD
  • t Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.
  • could include enhanced care coordination, community health workers or help with better housing
  • Robert Kahn, MD,
  • help identify children admitted to the hospital with asthma who may need more aggressive, targeted assessments and/or interventions may prevent asthma attacks and reduce disparities,
  • increasing our ability to know a child’s likelihood of returning to the hospital
  • enhanced clinical care pathway right at the start of an admission.
  • readmissions is increasingly critical in the era of healthcare reform.”
  • (grouping households by geographic area
  • constructed the social risk index
  • assigned census tract regions
  • extreme poverty rates, median home values and high school graduation rate
  • 601 children hospitalized for asthma were evaluated and placed in one of three categories, or risk strata: low, medium or high risk.
  • 39 percent of all patients were rehospitalized or returned to the emergency room within 12 months.
  • low geographic risk, children in the high risk category were 80 percent more likely to be rehospitalized or revisit the emergency room
  • high-risk children had caregivers who were five times more likely to report two or more financial hardships in their households and three times more likely to report psychological distress.
  • medium-risk category were 30 percent more likely to be readmitted or return to the emergency room
  • . Poor, urban and minority children are at the highest risk for emergency room treatment and hospital admission
  • identification of children at increased risk could allow additional assessments and services to be put in place prior to discharge to improve patient outcomes
  • target and use scarce and overburdened hospital and community resources more efficiently.”
  • e to use the geographic social risk index to study other asthma outcomes and other conditions, such as diabetes mellitus.
  • introduction of geographic data into clinical care leads to more in-depth and reliable triage of patients.
  • helps link hospital- or community-based care to those patients most likely to benefit from it.
  • Katie Stevenson on 31 Oct 12
     
    Cincinnati Hospital finds knowing a child's address may tell if they are going to revisit or be readmitted into the hospital
Gabby Campanella

Mastocytosis - 0 views

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  • mast cells in skin, lymph nodes, internal organs (such as the liver and spleen) and the linings of the lung, stomach, and intestine
  • Gabby Campanella on 31 Oct 12
     
    Masto can occur in many adults and children, so why don't doctors know very much about it?
Katie Stevenson

Asthma Facts - 0 views

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asthma facts Science

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  • America
  • 40,000 people miss school or work due to asthma. * 30,000 people have an asthma attack. * 5,000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma. * 1,000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma. * 11 people die from asthma.
  • 1 in 15 Americans
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  • most common chronic condition among childre
  • common among children (7 to 10%) than adults (3 to 5%)
  • 5 million asthma sufferers are under age 18
  • (44%) of all asthma hospitalizations are for children
  • 4,000 deaths due to asthma each year,
  • Each day 11 Americans die from asthma
  • death rate for children under 19 years old has increased by nearly 80% percent since 1980.
  • Katie Stevenson on 01 Nov 12
     
    About Asthma and the effects it can have
Hailie Christine

Sleep deprivation - 1 views

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      Hailie Christine on 01 Nov 12
       
      About 47 million adults in the USA experience sleep deprivation
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