The article I chose is “Penn: Stressed Dads Affect Offspring Brain Development through Sperm MicroRNA” by Katherine Unger Baillie. Tracy L. Bale a professor of neuroscience at Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Perelman School of Medicine is leading a study on how the level of stress can affect offspring’s through sperm. Professor Bale researched on male mice, and to elevate their stress levels she exposed them to a predator’s odor such as urine from a fox and/or transferring them to different cages. She then compared the sperm to the unstressed male mice and noticed an increase of nine miRs from the stress exposed mice. miRs prevent RNAs from translating into proteins.
The overall prevalence of ALS in the United States has been estimated to be between one and two cases per 100,000 people. The overall prevalence worldwide is estimated to be between four and ten per 100,000 people. Even though ALS can occur at any particular age, the most common age at onset is the mid-to-late 50s. Men are affected slightly more than women, according to most studies, by a ratio of five to three. The vast majority of patients with ALS have no prior family history of the disease.
In the paper it seems that although men might be mentioned that majority of those who take
Women have two X-chromosomes so that is why they will not have the disease. They have one defected gene and one normal. Their normal
Her genes made her more predisposed to the development of this psychological condition,
There is a lot of evidence comparing Rhoda and her grandmother’s behavior. These examples prove that Rhoda received this trait from her grandmother, a well known murder. It further confirms that ASPD is a disease that is inherited genetically, not caused by someone’s
Moore, it was found that when studying the genes, they react and change to their environment, and he found that some can essentially turn on and off, and it depends on which are turned on and off to determine our behavior. Essentially, he found that our genes and the environment we are in are always reacting with each other, and so is our behavior along with it. But this would not be the first time tests fail us; some tests get it wrong, so we as a society cannot put all our trust in a study or a test. Testing for many things is always advancing with the times, and soon today's way of testing things like DNA and such will be a thing of the past. There are too many uncertainties in this study that the psychologist cannot control.
In the case of women, the risk increases mostly due to living longer. B. According to the same Mayo Clinic article, some evidence indicates that other health factors such as type 2 diabetes, smoking, heart disease, and obesity might also put you at a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Connective/Transition: Now that we’ve discussed some risk factors, let’s move onto the causes and effects
These traits should not be associated with one specific gender as these traits is as likely to be shown by
Not only was her gender preventing her from pursuing her dreams, but so was her ethnicity. Being a woman of Mexican descent meant working twice as hard to prove that she was capable of completing her education. 2. After Martha had attained her Ph.D. she applied for a position as faculty, but was rejected for being a woman. Subsequent to her rejections, she a U.S Public Health Service Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA, which allowed her to take part in two years of research in the area of human Psychophysiology.
My choice is Adults with Alzheimer’s /dementia Dementia has become a major health problem because of the worldwide increase in elderly populations, especially those 80 years of age or older. From the results of 47 studies, the prevalence of moderate or severe dementia was estimated to be 10.5 percent among those 85 to 89 years old. Few people were studied in these age groups, which makes the available prevalence figures uncertain. Dementia is associated with more than 60 conditions, the two most common being Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia.
In another experiment, it showed that females were more helpful. There have been observations that a person (either female or male) is more comfortable assisting a female than a male. Some people believe that women are kinder, comfortable, and helpful which is the reason why they tend to be assisted more than
Over the last 30 years, immense scientific progress in the fields of neuroscience, cell biology, genetics, and technology has allowed us to examine and understand the brain in much more detail than before. Recently, a team of ten researchers from the UCLA Research Center and the University of Wisconsin tested a new software produced in Denmark called Neuroreader, a program used for measuring hippocampal volume. With this new program, the slightest changes in brain volume can be detected rapidly, allowing for earlier diagnosis of brain disorders including Alzheimer's. Indeed, such advancements have altered the way scientists think about Alzheimer’s disease (AD), a progressive brain disorder that gradually eliminates the patient’s memory and
Dementia is defined as a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by a brain disease or injury marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. There are a wide variety of diseases and conditions that can cause dementia, however the most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s Disease. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia late in life. Dementia is characterized by loss of the ability to think clearly.
After comparing shared and non-shared environment, it was also seen in both studies that a non-shared environment has higher variance compared to a shared environment variance. In addition to having a similar conclusion, there was a trend within the numbers caused by the mean age of the samples. Samples from the Bergeman et al. study had an average age of 59 years while the samples from the Jang et al. study had an average of 31 years. This concludes that age can also be a factor that would influence the environment and the genetic influence (Table 3)
