Concussions: A Compostion Study

The purpose of this study is to compare two different studies, one of anxiety and depression and the other on concussion patients. In the first study, two major psychological disorders, anxiety and depression, had been shown to affect many freshmen at UCLA. While studying both of these disorders, researchers began trying to counter each with new medicines and therapies. By educating the students, anxiety and depression were able to be recognized and relieved mostly through forms of communication and relaxation. In the second study, a major brain injury, more specifically called a concussion, called for new research on the process of diagnosing patients with concussions. Studies were done by comparing a control group and a group of concussion …show more content…
But concussions are hard to determine because of they do not always show up physically (Alan, et. al.,2014). Doctors have tried new studies to determine whether or not an athlete had a concussion. In recent years, doctors have benefited from concussion symptom inventories and computerized neurocognitive testing tools, but none of these allow a window into the pathophysiology of concussions (Alan, et. al., 2014). With these studies doctors have collected data from, they used patients from Pan Am Concussion Program at the Pan Am Clinic in Winnipeg MB. In the first part of the study they took MRIs of normal patients while exposing them to a carbon dioxide pressurized mask to establish a normal response to the pressure. They then did the same with concussion patients to determine the difference. The researchers were able to keep the amount of CO2 under control by only allowing in so much during the testing. In the second level Blood oxygen levels were acquired from both groups. Values from the control group were then compared to those from the concussion patients. The total number of individuals studied was 30, with 13 being excluded from the analysis for various reasons, some of which included incomplete blood oxygen level sequences, falling asleep, excessive movement, claustrophobia, and poor mask fitting (Alan, et. al., 2014). The final report included five subjects from the control group and twelve concussion patients (Alan, et. al., 2014). As for the first analysis, patients had higher voxel levels than did the control group as well as a decreased reaction to the carbon dioxide. The second analysis showed a higher level of reaction to carbon dioxide in the concussion patients than the control group and higher voxel levels. This study proves that increased voxel levels