sleep apnea

Parents dealing with the stress of the their own child not being able to focus in school or have a difficult time with discipline, and having to put their children on medication is sometimes beyond their control. The interesting information is that instead of jumping into medication so quickly I learned in my Child and Adolescent class that it's important to also look at the sleep patterns of the child or children. 

Sleep Apnea could be causing a child's focus to be minimal and the restlessness during the day due to lack of oxygen the child may be getting during a night’s sleep.

Sleep apnea for definition purposes is impaired ability to breathe while sleeping. People with sleep apnea have breath-less periods of a minute or so from which they awaken gasping for a breath. People usually do not remember or think of not breathing while sleeping so it’s not usually thought of especially when children are not doing well in their daily lives. Sleep apnea results from several causes, including genetics and hormones and in adults it’s usually during middle age and the result of obesity.

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The video that I have chosen is to see other reasons that could be causing children to have problems in their daily routine and instead of jumping into medication so quickly to do some research on sleeping patterns. 

Sleep Apnea does have effects on how humans can suffer throughout a daily basis and I think of the children with this problem and parents not being aware. 

Sex Differences in Childhood Behavior

Are dolls appropriate for boys? Are trucks appropriate for girls? What does it really mean when children before the age of 3 play with toys of the opposite sex?

 Examples that were shown in the textbook, Biological Psychology 11th edition, : were that infants between the ages of 3 to 8 months were placed in front of sex dominant toys such as dolls and trucks and noticed that girls looked at dolls and that boys look at both equally.

Studies suggest that prenatal hormones, especially testosterone, alter the brain in ways that influence differences between boys and girls in their activities and interests.

I agree that toy preferences are not just determined by hormones, I believe that parents influence the preference of toys predetermining  from their own childhood activities and or instruction. 

I believe that children are taught to choose toys by the parents and coming from having a boy as my first child and a baby girl the second I choose the toys and books that each one receives and enjoys all the time.

I make sure that children see toys that are appropriate for their individual sex unconsciously. That does not mean that I do not allow for my children to choose for themselves, but I know for a fact that I do this.

I choose this video and the article to explain that all the genetic or hormone theory have important reasons to believe that children may be predetermined in a certain way or that children are programmed in certain way to their sexual preference later on in life, BUT I also believe that it has a lot to do with child rearing during anyone's life.

synesthesia

I can't imagine looking at a letter in another color,although it could give me some insight possibly to problem solve or maybe to see what sound looks like.Synesthesia is the experience some people have in which stimulation of one sense evokes a perception of that sense and another one also. Meaning a cluster of people from in the same family might see the letter J in the color purple and the other may see the letter in yellow. Or  you may see the sound of a fighter jet with several letter KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!

The diagnosis is vague but it has some starting points. The phenomenon occurs in the cerebral cortex, not in the receptors or their first connections to the nervous system.



These pictures show examples of what may stand out to people with synesthesia or what may be difficult to find.

This video explains the phenomenon that is not explainable the concept of saying that word just tastes awful or that food tastes like a specific shape or color. Sounds and Colors blend together and reality is wired differently. Once this happens in a persons' life there is no changing it. That means for the rest of their lives a specific number has a different color or a specific letter and hearing sounds might do something to do that is peaceful or annoying. How bazaar? I can say that having Synesthesia may give you a hand up but as for me it could cause major destruction. 

Alzheimer's disease

Coming into a hotel lobby after a family celebration and getting ready to continue the fun was the only thing on our minds and seeing cops getting ready to take my grandmother was the last thing we could of even imagined seeing. She was lost, and had no clue on where she was and who her family was and it was overwhelming to all of us as a whole. 

She was 76 years old when she lost her battle to ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE! She began at her early 40's but as a grandchild I truly had not concept of what was really going on, I just always said that's something that grandma does. I was told by my mother, that my grandmother's Alzheimer's  was under control for quite a while with medication, but as time passed it continued to get worse. I saw first hand how she left her real life and became someone that was angry and aggressive with the Alzheimer and Dementia she developed.

It was the most difficult time in our family to deal with the fact that no one could understand her and see her view of the world, she always was lost in her own home and confused on who each one of her children were let alone her grandchildren.

Being aware of this awful disease is the best idea because being informed can help families and as it did for us and know what would be to come from the disease. 

Split-Brain People

Imagine having all the connections in a big city, like New York City condensed into the brain and knowing that at any moment you can connect to any part of the city as a whole or individually!!!
No imagine that the connections of seeing a whole are not there and/or not being able to connect to Grandma well because the cell phone towers in the east side are down. What then? How do we connect?
Split-Brain people are people who have had surgery done to the Corpus Collosum that is a set of axons that exchange information across the hemispheres.
The two-hemispheres are the left and the right and each hemisphere has a powerful influence on the other, the right side gives the big picture and the left side gives specific detail and the information is exchanged through all the connections like in a big city, but when the Corpus Collosum is cut the two hemispheres are disconnected.(East Side of the City and West Side of the City= NO CONNECTION) 
Split-Brain patients usually happen to control the effects of severe epilepsy, a condition characterized by repeated episodes of excessive synchronized neural activity. Epilepsy can result from a mutation in a gene controlling the GABA receptor , from trauma or infection in the brain, brain tumors, or exposure to toxic substances.

Split-Brain people continue to have their normal day life and amazingly can do things separately with each hand or side of the brain but the connections are lost in complex manners. What is seen in one visual field or the other has a different idea of what was seen or could possibly not know what it saw but when touching an object the person with a split-brain can then say what it was.
The Video explains the complexity of each side and the functions of what each side needs for each other. Like stated in the video the right side sees the patterns and the whole and the left side interprets the information given from the right, so when the Corpus Collosum is no longer there it is difficult for these patients to distinguish quickly the meaning or the picture as a whole.
Once again I explain that it is difficult but not impossible because of there are other connections in the brain that are being strengthen to help for the lose of the Bridge Between the City, and those would be the anterior commissure, the hippocampal commissure, and a couple of other small commissures.

Is it okay to cut the Corpus Collosum is not okay, what really are the effects, are there more pros to cons?
I truly feel that in a way it is helpful to patients that suffer from severe epilepsy and I do understand that the cases vary from case to case but with technology so advanced now a days I believe it could help in the long run. I know that there are some effects but like the readings from previous chapters in the Biological Psychology Book 11th edition, the brain is a powerful machine and functions can be changed and/or manipulated to help individuals.