Adrenal gland

Before any public or social performance any person will be affected in different ways depending of their confidence and capacity of managing their emotions. Every dancer needs to learn new choreographies in short periods of time to be able to perform in front of an audience. It is completely normal that any person experience stress or anxiety before a performance. These emotions affect the confidence of the person and could lead to affecting the quality of their performance. Dancers need to…

Leading the adrenal gland to release stress hormones, one major hormone being cortisol. In this process the blood stream is flooded with glucose, heart rate increases, and blood pressure increases. Your energy supply is reestablished. While a normal stress response spikes…

I. Introduction Born in the 1960s, Carolyn grew up in a time of changing contemporary standards concerning female sexuality and feminism. The culture in which she was raised informed many behavioral decisions she made throughout mate selection, pregnancy and childrearing. With little ability to compare her own female experiences to those of her somewhat absent mother, Carolyn worked closely with her father, husband and friends to inform herself on life changes she would have to make to…

PS137: Introduction to Research Methods Semester 1 Assignment 1 2017/2018 Please read the following short summary of a research design, and answer the five questions below. Psychologist Niamh has observed from her everyday experiences that people who have long commutes to work tend be more tired and unhappy (versus people who have shorter commutes) and she thinks that this may have a negative impact on their psychological well-being. To test this scientifically, Niamh recruits participants who…

What do you do when you see yet another overweight child? Do you sit off in the distance watching the situation get worse, or do you stand by their side and help them with their problem? Three out of four children ages five to ten get less than one hour of physical activity daily, according to a new survey. This is a problem because the American Heart Association recommends that children have at least sixty minutes of exercise a day, and only twenty-five percent of children accomplish this.…

What is Heart Failure? According to MayoClinic.Org,” Heart failure, sometimes referred to as congestive heart failure, occurs when your heart muscle doesn't pump blood as well as it should. Certain conditions, such as narrowed arteries in your heart (coronary artery disease) or high blood pressure, gradually leave your heart too weak or stiff to fill and pump efficiently.” Web. . January 12, 2016 There are contributing factors that can lead to heart failure such as coronary artery disease,…

serious and concerned on how he will allude Zaroff for 3 days so he can win the game. In real life if a person fears for their life their adrenaline kicks in and makes them move faster and makes them stronger adrenaline is a hormone secreted by the adrenal glands, especially in conditions of stress, increasing rates of blood circulation, breathing, and carbohydrate metabolism and preparing muscles for exertion so…

Nucleus The Nucleus is an example of a command centre found inside a eukaryotic cell; it’s usually the most prominent organelle, yet it occupies only 10% of the total volume of the cell. If this cell did not have a Nucleus, it would be defined as a prokaryote cell, however if the Nucleus was damaged and not repaired, the cell would simply die. The cell nucleus is enclosed within a double membrane (contains an Inner and Outer Nuclear Membrane) called the Nuclear Envelope, which separates the…

The controversial topic of performance enhancing drugs are still in discussion today. Some believe that they’re good to use, while others believe they give an unfair advantage to the sport being played. A performance enhancing drug is any substance taken by athletes to improve performance. Typically, well-known athletes are the ones to use performance enhancing drugs. Performance enhancing drugs are used by multiple athletes of every sports across the world. Therefore, the athletes who use PEDs…

The brain likes to be in homeostasis, its own equilibrium, and if a trait-anxious person’s brain is used to it being anxious all the time it might take a while for the brain to adapt to a different way of thinking. When people get stressed, the adrenal glands release a hormone called cortisol. Too much cortisol can have severe effects on the body, a weakened immune system, interfere with learning and memory, effect blood pressure and cholesterol, the list goes on and on. This means that…