Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Insomnia In-Take

In-take: Patient will have troubles sleeping and feel a lack of energy in the day. Patient may complain of tiredness, mood swings, anxiety, and reduced productivity. It can be caused by anxiety, stress, depression, medication, drugs, alcohol, nicotine, and change in work habit etc...

Diagnosis: The patient need to have less stress and show a complete medical record. They will also need to keep a diary of their sleep habits for atleast a week. Then go to the doctor and have them perform a test.

Treatment: The patient can get over the counter medication from the doctor. But they can also work on sleep hygiene and their sleeping enviornment to improve it to get a healthy amount of sleep.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

#3 Narcolepsy?!?!?!

They think it is caused by lack of hypocretin. They don't know how to measure how much hypocretin you have or what amount of it you need. Hypocretin is a chemical in your brain that helps tell how awake you are. Heredity doesn't decide alone if you are narcoleptic but you also need to have one of the following: infections, brain damage, immune system damage, and low histamine.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

#2 Type A or Type B?

If one has a fear of snakes then you should address that fear little by little using baby steps. To defeat that fear they must overcome the fear. First they should hold very small snakes for some period of time and get used to them. Then you must get bigger snakes and so on and so furth. If you keep doing this then you may overcome your fear of snakes.

In a scale from 0 (Type B) to 100 (Type A) I score as 38. I sit near the middle but lean more towards the B side. I agree with this because I don't have all the patience i would like to have but on the other hand I am really calm and easy to get along with. The quiz said that staying at equilibrium is important to me and i agree with that all the way. I like to be relaxed but I have to do certain things to satisfy my Type A side.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

#1 How does tone deafness happen?

Usually is a birth defect but can be caused by brain damage. It makes people unable to sense a change of notes in music. They think they are singing/playing in tune but really they flat out sound horrible. But it doesn't only affect them in music it will inflict on correlations with tonal languages. It may make it harder for them to learn vocabulary or any languages.