Since 2004‚ 92 high school boys have died due to football related injuries. Andre Smith was the most recent student to join the list. This year alone there have been seven football related deaths. These statistics often raise the question‚ “Why?” Despite the frequency of these unfortunate events‚ not many steps have been taken to avoid future accidents. The impact of these deaths are visible in the declining number of students enrolling to play football for the past 4 years. Although football has
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studies) has limited indications in patients with blunt head injury. Plain films are sometimes indicated for penetrating injuries of the skull to determinate the course‚ location‚ or a number of gunshots or foreign body fragment‚ as well as possible depressed skull fragment. Patient with a significant head injury‚ history of loss of consciousness (LOC)‚ or postconcussive sequelae required immediate evaluation by CT scan. CT scan of the brain should be the initial screening tool for patient with symptoms
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half of the brain tends to function by processing information in an analytical‚ rational‚ logical‚ sequential way. The right half of the brain tends to function by recognizing relationships‚ integrating and synthesizing information‚ and arriving at intuitive insights. In other words‚ the left side of your brain deals with a problem or situation by collecting data‚ making analyses‚ and using a rational thinking process to reach a logical conclusion. The right side of your brain approaches the
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organization of their brains are superiority in verbal tests and being able to convey emotions better due to the fact that their emotional functions are within the left and right side of the brain‚ when for men‚ the function is only in the right side. Female brains are superior in verbal tests because language skills including grammar‚ spelling‚ and writing are all housed in the left side of the brain‚ whereas in a male brain‚ the language skills are located in the front and back of the brain which makes it
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Brain Disease Endangers Football To a high school football player‚ the idea of a disease being severe enough to endanger his revered sport likely evokes outrage‚ or at the very least‚ a severe case of skepticism. And understandably so. Football has defined our culture‚ and for many‚ served as a proud way of life for nearly a century. Without football‚ high school -and really all of America- just wouldn’t be the same. Unfortunately‚ new studies demonstrate that this “disease” may hold some
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There are three major brain divisions. They are the cerebrum‚ the brainstem‚ and the cerebellum. The cerebrum contains 40% of the weight of the brain and is founded in the superior part of the brain. This portion of the brain has many functions and lobes which perform certain functions. The frontal lobe is involved with “activating and controlling both fine and complex motor activities.” This involves speech. It is also involved with the executive functions‚ such as reasoning and rationalizing‚ among
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1 Critical Review No. 2: His Brain‚ Her Brain Abstract As Larry Cahill ’s article “His Brain‚ Her Brain”‚ points out there has been data showing a vast “...array of structural‚ chemical and functional variations” between the sexes; but does size matter? Lawrence Summers‚ former President of Harvard‚ thought so. Men ’s brains are 13% larger than women ’s brains‚ but does that really make them more advanced in math‚ physics and science? There are other anatomical variations and some of these
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BRAIN FUNCTION FOR AUTISM Brain Function for Autism Psychology 340 Brain Function for Autism The brain has forever stumped scientist on how it functions and which genetics and behavior place in the picture. With many genetic diseases that passed on through a recessive gene; this can cause physical and mental impairment in their offspring. This paper will be focusing on Autism the effects it has on many people. It has been studied
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can be very good for your body and health‚ they can also be harmful to you. There are many sports-related injuries that are unfortunately very common today. For these many injuries‚ there are also many precautions and treatments you can use. The most common injuries include contusions‚ sprains‚ strains‚ dislocations‚ and fractures. A contusion‚ more commonly known as a bruise‚ is an injury to the soft tissue caused by a force to this tissue that will result in pain‚ swelling‚ and discoloration
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Recent studies show that football players are likely to have brain trauma and will be affected in the long run. Because of the abnormal buildup of protein in the brain‚ it causes the tissue to be degenerated. Although brain trauma can become a problem for anyone at any time‚ football is a push for the problem. One of the common effects on the brain is chronic traumatic encephalopathy‚ which is the loss of memory‚ emotional and aggression control. After all‚ football should be banned from high school
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