Twitches

It was September 26, 2014, the night of the biggest high school football game in Albany, GA between Westover and Monroe. During my biology lecture class, my friend and I contemplated driving home for the game. I had not seen my sister cheer all last semester. I decided this would be the perfect time to surprise her. High school rivalry games are always great opportunities for returning alumni to meet up with old friends and flaunt themselves, usually in the latest styles, to make an impression on the crowd. I recall wearing a teal crop top, joggers, and a pair of black and teal Jordans. Upon entering the stadium, I was engaged in a conversation between myself and a friend. She bragged on my body as she explained that a mutual friend of ours suggested that my stomach was the "perfect stomach", in comparison to hers. The "perfect stomach"? What exactly does she mean? It was then that I realized I had experienced my first encounter of, unintentionally, making someone feel self-conscious about not having the perfect body. Amy Bloom once said, "You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful (Bloom)." Despite Bloom 's thinking, not all people share the same logic. The rational senses of the people are not generated within themselves. Moreover, each decade society has cultivated trends describing the perfect body. Body trends change every year through generations. Fashion TV shows, such as Project Runway, insist one day you are in, and the next day you…

Return to Halloweentown versus Twitches Too A drama, family, comedy, and fantasy films can sometimes seem too similar, but both movies have some differences that set them apart from others. Although Return to Halloweentown and Twitches Too are similar in that they both have witches, saving family and friends, and destroying bad people, Return to Halloweentown focus on breaking the curse on the necklace while Twitches Too addresses setting their father free from the dark shadow. …

Advanced Life Support or ALS is a set of life saving steps that goes beyond the Basic Life Support or BLS. BLS can be provided by any first responder, trained or untrained. ALS requires trained rescuers to go beyond chest compression by using intravenous medications and an AED to increase blood circulation, and provide adequate ventilation using a breathing tube. During a sudden cardiac attack, the heart twitches irregularly and therefore is ineffective in pumping blood throughout the body. …

definitively determine that ALS is present. However, most ALS patients experience a gradual onset of symptoms that become more severe. The beginning symptoms could be a simple as having difficulty buttoning your shirt, grasping and object, or even experiencing changes in pitch when speaking. Most of the first symptoms are associated with the inability to control muscles effectively, and begins with weakness in limbs, often worse on one side than the other. Other early symptoms may include…

needs to be nurtured for proper brain development to be able to cope with physical and mental pain. The point of the study was to determine how the infant’s brain reacts to pain with the mother being present or not present. This study was determined by analyzing the gene activity of infants. A mother’s “TLC” can affect the early development of infant’s brain by observing the actions of genes inside the brain. The research provided by this article shows how a nurtured infant brain has better…

the release of calcium. At high frequencies, there is a build up of calcium, which causes a longer contraction with more force. With more recruitment, there was more calcium released, causing a stronger twitch. The minimum intensity required for recruitment is the minimum amplitude required to reach the threshold to create a response. As the stimulus amplitude persisted to increase, an increasing number of motor units were used so that the of the contraction increased as well. Once all of the…

Every one out twenty six people have epilepsy and in the United States three million people are diagnosed with this disease (Cure Epilepsy). Epilepsy is a neurological disease that disturbs your nerve activity in your brain which results in seizures. Neurons are something that transmits messages to your brain and then are sent through your synapse which is the space between two neurons. That process is normal for most but people with epilepsy it is not because the nerves no longer will turn off…

Due to the fact that one of the two ways to increase the strength of a muscle contraction is to increase the frequency at which the motor units fire in order to create a summed effect, it is expected that the shorter the time interval between consecutive stimuli, the greater the force of contraction. If there is a greater amount of time between the stimuli, the muscle would be able to relax before the next stimulus is fired. However, as that time decreases, the individual twitches begin to…

comprehension), apathy • 40% of patients presented with cognitive phenotypes, 40% present with muscular, 20% a combination of both (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation) • Many of the phenotypes mimic those of other neurodegenerative disease (i.e. Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, MS, etc.) makes diagnosis difficult o Presence of “spongiform changes and plaques” caused by prion proteins is the only way to confirm CJD Mental symptoms worsen as disease progresses with most patients lapsing into a coma…

frequency of the firing of action potentials across multiple motor units. This is exactly what was observed in the compound action potential recordings in Figure 2, which showed that the CAP amplitude increased proportionately as the stimulus intensity increased after 20% above threshold. It is known that the force of which the muscle contracts will increase as larger motor neurons are recruited along with smaller weaker ones (Wakeling, 2005). The resultant CAP observed in experiment 2 was due…