Alertness

teachers to allow kids to chew gum during tests and quizzes. All of the research I was able to obtain completely supports my hypothesis. Each of my sources suggest that chewing gum makes a difference. Chewing gum is good for the brain and can boost alertness by 10%. It does not, however, help us think any faster. Performance is only boosted for the first 20-30 minutes of the test. After this, people chewing gum performed just as well as people not chewing gum. Also, simply pretending to chew…

Modalert: Modalert is the generic trade name for Modafinil. Modafinil is a prescription medicine designed for narcoleptics. It is associated with improved mental functioning in a sleep deprived state that boosts alertness and prevents sleep. Modalert is regarded as best memory enhancer, as it really exalts memory and cognition. It is a potent and highly famous supplement in the category of nootropics(supplements that is primarily ingested for its brain effects). There can be many reasons for…

resulting in restorative rest. Mental alertness was tested in 1996 by the Touch Research Institute and it was found that individuals who received a chair massage improved their ability to solve mathematical problems when tested before and after the massage. (3) The control group were told to sit in a comfortable chair and relax for the same period of time before given their second set of math problems. The benefits of massage can support mental alertness. As we move forward with our…

dealing with problems during class that they can’t control. You think students sleep in class knowing their grades are going to be in danger?(etho) Based on ‘’National Sleep Foundation’’ student’s alertness was tested and ‘’ they showed more alertness at 8 pm than earlier in the day, and even greater alertness at 10 am.’’ When students are awoken on that required rest time they tend to exceed and focus more in class. However, some think that the students are responsible for these actions. Many…

brain. The effect can cause the brain to warm up quicker and recall what it needs to remember (Abel “Does Chewing Gum Affect," n.d.). Chewing gum can affect test scores because chewing gum warms up the brain, memories are stored in the brain,and alertness plays a factor when test taking . Chewing gum can improve…

The consumption of caffeine has been showed to have both long- and short-term effects on the health. The most pronounced effect of caffeine on the cardiovascular system is the ability to raise blood pressure. In healthy individuals this is often not of great concern however hypertensive individuals might suffer from an acute increase in blood pressure, leading to server health. In addition a regular intake of caffeine is evident to lower the risk of developing arrhythmia as well as an important…

Small, irregular amounts of caffeine will work again, and with a regular sleep schedule, sleep rhythm will leave the body just as refreshed as shortly before quitting habitual caffeine. Staying properly hydrated will provide the same alertness boost as caffeine, and blood sugar will no longer fluctuate based on the times of caffeine intake. The average working American coffee drinker that buys coffee during the week spends $1092 dollars per year (Morran), and that much more cash can be…

term that has been discussed in the literature was ‘entrepreneurial alertness’ in defining the process of opportunity recognition. Whereas, it described as an ability to detect opportunities that were missed without searching (Kirzner, 1999). Gaglio and Katz (2001) advocated that some entrepreneurs are more likely to find relationships and patterns in information that they have than others. Also, it is believed that greater alertness boosts the probability of an opportunity to be identified.…

foodstuffs and produce such products as coffee, tea, chocolate and energy drinks. Plants produce caffeine as a natural pesticide against species of insects. In the human body, caffeine acts as a stimulant to the central nervous system and can increase alertness and reaction time (www.livestrong.com – February 2013). There are also clinical uses of caffeine such as being used in aspirin and some other preparations for treating headaches (Rang, Dale, Ritter – 1995).…

On April 4th, 2017, I had the opportunity to be part of the care team of Medical City Denton’s (MCD) Emergency Department (ED) as a student nurse. Shortly after the morning ED shift huddle, a patient in her mid-fifties was brought in by paramedics due to a stroke. Upon arrival to the ED, the patient was initially responsive to verbal commands, but took a turn for the worse as she was returning from the radiology department after a computerized tomography (CT) scan. The CT scan indicated…