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- 2731: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ... children control their hyperactivity, inattention, and other behaviors. Different doctors use the medications in slightly different ways. Cylert is available in one form, which naturally lasts 5 to 10 hours. Titalin and Dexedrine come in short-term tablets that last about 3 hours, as well as longer-term preparations that last through the school day. The short-term dose is often more practical for children who need medication only during the school day or for special situations, like attending church or a prom, or studying for an important exam. Judyth Reichenberg-Ullman ...
- 2732: Nutrition In Schools
- ... she handed them out personally at her convenience and asked me if I could return in one week to pick up the results. Knowing this I had to make my survey as simple and as short as possible in case it was handed out to first grade students without clear explanations. My survey begins with the question, "Do you feel school lunches provide the essential nutritional value needed for school age children?" This is a simple yes or no answer. Short and sweet. From the knowledge they have on nutrition, do they feel they are receiving nutritional meals. This in turn will tell me if the students feel that they are not getting enough nutritious food ...
- 2733: Being Physically Fit
- ... Some of the aerobic exercises include: Brisk walking, jogging, stair-climbing, aerobic dancing, cycling, swimming, rowing, and some forms of dancing (such as square dancing, folk dancing, or ballroom dancing). Anaerobic exercise consists of a short, sharp burst of strenuous activity, which include: sprinting a short distance and lifting of heavy weights (Clayman 20-23). Physical fitness is most easily understood by examining its components, or parts. These four components are: Cardiorespiratory endurance -- Three 20 minute sessions each week of continuous ...
- 2734: Cognitive Development in Children
- ... development, the IPT also observes how thinking is influenced by age. Atkinson and Shiffren advanced a model of memory known as the information-processing model (Matlin, 1983). This model consists of three memory stores: sensory; short-term and long-term storage. Information enters the processing operation the information through the screening mechanism known as attention. Although this process is initially unrefined, it increasingly becomes more selective throughout development, allowing only relevant information to penetrate into the sensory registration which very briefly retains the information in either the iconic memory (visual), echoic memory (auditory) and tactile memory (touch). From here, the information is transmitted to the short-term storage that holds the information actively being used or worked on to eventually reaching long-term storage, where information can be stored more permanently for later retrieval. One influential, developmental factor in this overall ...
- 2735: Tourette's Disorder
- ... as blinking, nodding, or arm flexion, may be less disruptive than an infrequent tic that occurs several times an hour, such as loud barking, coprolalic utterances, or touching tics. There may be tremendous variability over short and long periods of time in symptomatology, frequency, and severity. Patients may be able to inhibit or not feel a great need to emit their symptoms while at school or work. When they arrive home ... sees a nearly symptom-free patient leave the office who begins to hop, flail, or bark as soon as the street or even the bathroom is reached. In addition to the moment-to-moment or short-term changes in symptom intensity, many patients have oscillations in severity over the course of weeks and months. The waxing and waning of severity may be triggered by changes in the patient's life; for ...
- 2736: Why Exercise is Important
- ... 24 to 48 hours, Crouse concludes. Why We Have a Potbelly We've been talking about how important it is for our bodies to be in good physical shape. Study after study indicates both the short term and long term effects of exercising. Now, let's actually talk about the workout. The gut, or belly, is a person's worst enemy. For many of us with them, they just sneaked up ... trick, then get out and go for a walk or jump on the bicycle. Exercise helps control blood sugar, which leads to a steady state associated with fullness. Aerobic exercise reduces the appetite in the short run, says James Kenney, PhD., R.D., nutrition-research specialist at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, California, perhaps because it heats the body. 5. Just ask "why?" Before you eat, you need to ...
- 2737: Comparing Treatment Approaches
- ... the doctor about once a month. There are no apparent biological effects of the antibodies on the subjects, and it is viewed by Landry as one part of a comprehensive treatment plan, not a simple short-term fix. Limitations of the study are that it hasn't been tested. Adverse effects aren't known, and antibodies may have other unexpected effects on the body. If the body produces its own similar ... perhaps have worsened as a result of their addiction. There is no evidence that this therapy would not simply cause the addicts to change their drug of choice. Mello's therapy is, in brief, a short-term fix for addicts. It requires the continued administration of the drug for extended periods of time, and if the situation of the patient was such that it led them to cocaine in the first ...
- 2738: Dreams
- ... it's memory file for images, information and experiences and weaving them into a story (Kopecky,76). Psychiatrist and philosopher Gordon Globus of the University of California at Irvine, says to determine what kinds of stories they are and to figure out what they can tell us. He says "you need to look beneath the surface of a dream to find the coherence" (78). Since 1853, when REM, or the dream ... psychiatrist Milton Kramer. "What you think, how you feel, and what you believe in proceed from there." (Segall,43). People can make dreams work for them and help them lead better lives. Dreams, which are stories produced by combining fragments of images, information and experiences from a person's memory file, help people face truths about themselves and the world we live in. Dreams are very shapeable and everything we're ...
- 2739: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- ... 60). Mid-facial abnormalities are a part of the child for life. Some of these common abnormalities are a broad nasal bridge, poorly developed filtrum, thin upper limit, flattening of the axillary area, and a short upturned or beak-like nose. Some of the more serious effects that can be more dangerous are a poor dental alignment, optic nerve defects, and arterial septal defect (Welkselman, 297). Welkselman thinks that fetal alcohol ... alcohol syndrome" (Welkselman, 297). It is responsible for an estimated twenty percent of all cases. This is really a tragedy because it is entirely preventable. Some major and obvious symptoms are distractibility, increased motor movements, short attention span, impulsiveness, and fine motor dysfunction. Welkselman has done a large number of studies and found that the neurobehavioral disturbances typical of attention deficit disorder (ADD) are very common among FAS children (299). Children ...
- 2740: Creatine
- ... order to increase a persons endurance). However, these procedures have many drawbacks. Mainly, they are illegal. An athlete may be suspended from playing their perspective sport for using them. They have many long terms and short term side effects. But now there is a new drug that can give an athlete the edge that they desire. Creatine has exploded onto the supplement market. Last year alone Creatine sales topped 100,000 ... which claimed to be 100% Creatine, the findings were that all expect one were well under 100% Creatine, and one was only42% Creatine. (McDonald 79) That is a financial drawback to Creatine. Furthermore, several small short- term side effects include dehydration, diarrhea, and muscle cramping. Also, Creatine might not be able to help a person in their sport. For example, Creatine does not benefit an athlete who participates in an aerobic ...
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