Atrophy

Media multitasking, as defined by the study conducted by Ralph, Thompson, Cheyne, and Smilek, is the engagement of more than one medium in a given time (i.e. listening to music, reading, and watching a video simultaneously). Utilizing a series of online self-report measures, the study examines media multitasking and its relation to various aspects of everyday attention; particularly failures of attention and cognitive errors, mind wandering, and attentional control, emphasizing attentional…

Introduction The United States Air Force’s foundational tenet for command and control of air and space forces is “centralized control and decentralized execution” executed by a Joint Forces Air Component Commander through an Air Operations Center. Centralized control and decentralized execution is the fundamental organizing principle for the United States Air Force and affects everything from presentation of forces to weapon systems to doctrine to professional military education. This long…

similar to that of Parkinson’s Disease which makes diagnosis more difficult. Among them are Multiple system atrophy (MSA) a disorder that affects the autonomic nervous system, Dementia with Lewy bodies associated with irregular protein deposits, Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), although rare it causes complications with balance and Corticobasal degeneration (CBD) causing brain atrophy. The specific cause for Parkinson’s Disease still remains unknown, however it has been linked to genetic…

becomes reduced, many interactions becomes disrupted or changed. Specifically though, early degeneration of the striatal occurs. The restoration of mTORC1 activation would improve mHTT metabolic phenotypes and even enact the reversal of striatal atrophy (Lee et al.,…

particular cognitive functions such as; emotions, memory and coordination etc. Alzheimer’s disease effects the brain in different ways but the causative factor is brain atrophy, research by (Thompson et al., 2003) showed a grey matter decrease of ~2.3% in Alzheimer’s patients per year, compared to 0.9% of the control. This brain atrophy can be seen by eye, brain gyri become narrower and sulci grooves between the gyri become wider. The ventricles increase in size as they contain more…

Myotonic Dystrophy is an autosomal dominantly inherited disorder at which an individual has the inability to relax his or her muscles; thus progressing to muscle degeneration and decrease muscle tone [1]. Currently there are two types of muscular dystrophy that are known in the both the medical and scientific community. There’s type one myotonic dystrophy also known as congenital myotonic dystrophy which has an onset at birth. Then there is type two, myotonic muscular dystrophy which has an…

people from Biogen, a firm that creates medical drugs to help treat various medical conditions, came to discuss the medical and business sides of creating a new treatment called Spinraza. Spinraza is a drug that is used to treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy(SMA) which is a rare genetic linked condition that causes a loss of nerve cells inside of the spinal cord. This loss of nerve cells causes a loss of motor function and can often be lethal, especially when the age of onset is earlier. Spinraza…

Enhanced muscular strength and endurance can lead to improvements in the areas of performance, injury prevention, body composition, self-image, lifetime muscle and bone health, and metabolic health. Most important, greater muscular strength and endurance reduce the risk of premature death (Reuter 101). Muscular performance can be broken down into two components, strength and endurance. “Muscle strength is the ability to exert a maximal amount of force for a short period of time. Muscle endurance…

A fracture is considered compound when the skin is broken and the bone protrudes from the open fracture/wound. There is sometimes considerable soft tissue damage and a higher risk of infection from the open fracture. Immobilizing the injured leg will help to prevent causing more damage to the soft tissue around the break. Immobilization may also keep from causing injury to the femoral artery which could be fatal. Keeping the femur as still as possible after the break may also help doctors…

Along with Steinert, Batten and Gibb were the first to report on what is now known as DM1. Batten and Gribb describe two cases of what they termed myotonia atrophica. Patient 1 was a 37-year-old male while patient 2 is a 56-year-old male. In both cases, the authors note wasting of the sterno mastoids, vastus internus and forearm muscles. Both showed a weakness of the orbicularis paperbarum and stiffness in the jaws and tongues as well as initiation of walking. There was lack of or sluggish…