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Life Science Teaching Resource Community
This is a resource that was created by the American Physiology Society. It's an online community for Life Sciences educators! You can search any number of topics and will find teaching resources th...
Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life - The Washington Post
Learning to play an instrument in youth helps older people retain listening skills, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In an experiment at the Rotman Research Ins...
Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life - The Washington Post
Learning to play an instrument in youth helps older people retain listening skills, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In an experiment at the Rotman Research Ins...
Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life - The Washington Post
Learning to play an instrument in youth helps older people retain listening skills, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In an experiment at the Rotman Research Ins...
Early music training prevents loss of listening skills later in life - The Washington Post
Learning to play an instrument in youth helps older people retain listening skills, according to a new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. In an experiment at the Rotman Research Ins...
Article on Prenatal Development in Humans
The article I found discusses the links between prenatal development and brain maturation through and after puberty. They studied different environments in which a fetus was developed and linked it...
Items Tagged with "Life Sciences"
Gut Bacteria Might Guide The Workings Of Our Minds : Shots - Health News : NPR
Definitely something going on here...
Fearful Memories Passed Down to Mouse Descendants: Scientific American
Again, Epigenetics at work here.
The Cold Hard Facts of Freezing to Death | Outdoor Adventure | OutsideOnline.com
Very interesting article.
Antioxidants Speed Up Lung Cancer | The Scientist Magazine®
Remember this does not mean taking or consuming antioxidants will kill you, but it does suggest they may not be as beneficial as originally assumed in the prevention of chronic diseases, especially...
The Inner Life of the Cell « XVIVO Scientific Animation, medical animation & illustration
This is absolutely the most amazing visualization I have ever seen.
The Food Issue | Scientific American Reports
If you ever dish out $$ to purchase a magazine, this issue is worth it!
Quantum Biology: Better Living Through Quantum Mechanics - The Nature of Reality
Ah the complexity of nature!
Bionics Research ReWalk™ U.S. - the wearable bionic suit
Really amazing stuff going on in this field.
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5 diet tips and habits to skip
1. Eating out once a week Restaurant meals typically deliver more calories than homemade ones. And dining out even just once a week could hinder your slim-down efforts. Women who ate lunch out at ...
Stress Alters Children's Genomes
This is very interesting as undoubtedly, we all suffer from stress, serious stress from time to time in our lives, including childhood. I wonder if severity of stress (unstable homes are definitel...
Farmers race for a cure for ‘banana HIV’
LA LIMA, Honduras — Emerald green banana plantations stretch to the horizon in northern Honduras. But these fields — indeed, the entire banana supply chain for the US supermarkets — could face ruin...
Types of Teas and Their Health Benefits
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/tea-types-and-their-health-benefits
The Man Who Rewrote the Tree of Life — NOVA Next | PBS
This is interesting and shows how science really does creep forward, however slowly in it's understanding.
NIH Brain Teaching Resource
This is a evidence-based website that has resources for teachers (including activities that are downloadable, videos and simulations) and students.
Zombie Autopsies
A cleaver video that uses a comparison to a zombie brain to illustrate some of the key areas of the healthy human brain.
Lesson Plan for Neurophysiology: Zombie Autopsies
This website includes 4 lesson plans to teach about neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, drugs and addiction.
Consciousness Might Emerge from a Data Broadcast - Scientific American
Interesting article talks about basically a global workspace where the brain processes both conscious and unconscious thought and then decides what needs to be distributed to the rest of the brain....
Synthesizing Cognition in Neuromorphic Electronic Systems
Going to have read this again, and again and again to fully understand this. But at least now I better understand what "neuromorphic" means. This is the beginning of Data (from TNG).
Leptin also influences brain cells that control appetite, researchers find | neuroscientistnews.com
Leptin had a lot of promise in the 90's, perhaps this will be helpful.
Centre for Health Promotion
A U of T affiliated website that provides an overview of health promotion initiatives that have occurred around the world and reviews best practices in health promotion.
Health Promotion On-Line Course
The Ontario Health Promotion Resource System (OHPRS) is a collaborative effort of over 20 organizations in Ontario that work to promote health. Funding comes from the Ministry of Health Promotion a...
The Community Guide
A good resource from the US Government that highlights some management and intervention reviews for different health topics.
McMaster University's Health Evidence
This is a great tool for students to search for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of public health and health promotion interventions.
Research Tested Intervention Programs (RTIP)
A database of interventions that focuses on cancer prevention. A RE-AIM score of the intervention is given when you click on the study of interest.
Using What Works
A National Cancer Institute website that has modules to walk learners through planning an intervention (Needs Assessment included) and adapting an intervention for different purposes.
Partnership for Prevention- Tobacco
Partnership for Prevention is a NFP in USA. The website has a list of programs related to smoking cessation.
Health Equity Impact Assessment
MOHLTC resource for walking users through the steps of identifying how a program, policy or similar initiative will impact population groups in different ways.
Life Science Teaching Resource Community
This is a resource that was created by the American Physiology Society. It's an online community for Life Sciences educators! You can search any number of topics and will find teaching resources th...
NIH Medline Plus- Videos
A trustworthy website with videos of various systems in the body, games and quizzes. Great for professors of anatomy, physiology and health and wellness!
Promising practices for Social Marketing
An open access PDF resource from the Health Equity Office with helpful links for faculty and students about social marketing.
Public Health Ontario
A good website with links to other health promotion resources, such as resources for planning and evaluating health promotion.
Skills for health promotion toolkit
A toolkit that reviews planning and evaluating health promotion initiatives, and also discusses health communication and policies.
Ontario Health Program Planner
A free resource that can be used to walk learners through the health promotion planning phase. You can register for free to create your plan using their online tools. You can also search their data...
Health Council of Canada
Although the HCC is no longer operating, their website still has reports and publications available. This is a good resource for those covering the Canadian Health Care System in class.
Transtheoretical model- process of change scales
A website with various scales to determine a client's process of change for alcohol use, drug use, and smoking.
Simply Put... health communication
An open access PDF to help students communicate health-related topics to the public.
CDC online newsroom
A CDC resource that has news releases, educational resources and other links for many health-related topics.
Scitable
Nature's online resource for various science topics. It's got a nice section on Cell Biology and Scientific Communication.
The Health Communication Unit Webcasts
Webcasts that are on various health promotion topics. There is a good one on planning models from 2008.
Canadian Centre for Occupation Health and Safety
A website that reviews the steps to creating workplace health promotion initiatives.
Mental Health Works
A Canadian Mental Health Association resource for developing and implementing workplace health promotion initiatives.
Canadian Mental Health Association- Videos
A library of videos regarding workplace health promotion. A few of them feature employees talking candidly about their workplace wellness experiences... good and bad...
European Network for Workplace Health Promotion
A general resource for workplace health promotion, covering the basics of WHP and also has a toolkit of resources showing interventions for various health initiatives.
A New Way to Burn Calories | Science/AAAS | News
Very interesting...we have known for some time now that brown fat is much more metabolically active than white fat, but to be able to simulate it via immune response? Cool.
The Biology Project
Great resource with access to interactive tools to better understand cellular structure.
The Future of the Mind
Very comprehensive read on most of the latest research on the neuroscience frontier. Covers everything from the mechanics of thought to consciousness (human, animal and alien) to AI.
Atmospheric Movement of Microorganisms in Clouds of Desert Dust and Implications for Human Health
Welcome to Aerobiology and Aeroecology.
Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics: The emerging face of Nutrition
We are just getting started with this I think!
Inheritance: How Our Genes Change Our Lives and Our Lives Change Our Genes
Really easy read. Overall, good book discussing some of the latest information on epigenetics.
Epigenetic Transmission of the Impact of Early Stress Across Generations
Wow, so I guess the question is now: if these genetic constructs dictate so much of "who we are" and "what we become" even "how we think" can we undo with practice and/or therapy what nature has o...
Tibetans inherited high-altitude gene from ancient human | Science/AAAS | News
We are just beginning to understand all of this. How exciting.
Environmental and Gut Bacteroidetes: The Food Connection
There is a tentative inverse relationship between a decrease in these types of bacterium in our guts and increase in obesity. Tentative...and we are just beginning to understand all this... More ...
How antioxidants can accelerate cancers, and why they don't protect against them
My take away: Antioxidant supplements or those found in natural foods may not be helpful because they might not get to the site where they are needed to both protect against and fight cancer. Agai...
Powerful Genetic Engineering Technique Could Modify Entire Wild Populations — NOVA Next | PBS
Oh dear, and this is how it begins.....
Danish DNA could be key to happiness
For further info: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/danish_dna_could
US Obesity and Diabetes on Rise
Telling maps of the US showing the increase in diabetes and obesity.
The super-abundant virus controlling your gut bacteria - health - 25 July 2014 - New Scientist
Okay, so it's not just bacteria in our guts, we have a "virome" that controls the bacterial colonies. I still think we are just colonies of various bacterial and viral cells that came together and...
Alzheimer’s disease, b-amyloid, glutamate, NMDA receptors and memantine – searching for the connections
A bit technical, but fascinating.
Anti-Obesity Effect of Lactobacillus gasseri BNR17 in High-Sucrose Diet-Induced Obese Mice
There is something to this gut bacteria thing....this will only become more interesting as we learn more!
Is Poverty Genetic? : Videos : Science Channel
Very interesting and of course demonstrates the role poverty plays on brain development.
The Primordial Roots of Cancer | Acumen | OZY
Some good points in here...perhaps it is just a natural by-product of life (and of course pathogenic as I always say).
Mary Roach: The Science of Your Guts
They digress a bit at the beginning, but they finally get to the interview around 15min.
Mammals Made By Viruses : The Loom
I have always maintained that we are nothing but a collection of bacterium and viruses that worked together in a synergistic way to end up....us. I guess Mr. Smith was right, we are a virus.
12 ways food companies trick people into believing food is better for them
12 food catch phrases that do nothing to improve your health.
Anatomical Planes and Spatial Relationships in the Human Body
An in depth video describing the different planes of the body. I decided to post this video because I learn best with hands on and visual aids so hopefully this will help other student to learn ...
Easy fecal transplant for C.diff.
New pill developed that takes away the ick factor and is appearing to be effective as well as cost effective.
Carpal Bones
An image of the Carpal bones and a brief description of the joints between them and the Metacarpals.
9. Gluten and GMO's
How have GMO's impacted our health? What health problems are being created as a result of consuming GM foods?
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Can We Inherit the Environmental Damage Done to Our Ancestors? [Video] - Scientific American
Really good article...worth the fee.
Why This Psychologist Thinks Depression Is An Infectious Disease
I don't see why not? There is ample evidence many of our diseases are fundamentally caused by pathogens.
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Pigs May End Organ Shortage.
Reports on a research which cloned pigs for xenotransplantation. Population of patients with failing organs in the United States; Reason for choosing pigs over monkeys; Approaches that are being an...
Animal Organs Won't Solve the Transplant Shortage.
Discusses the downside of xenotransplantation. Cost of xenotransplants; Diseases humans can acquire from pigs; Statements included in the 1996 United States Public Health Service xenotransplant dra...
Ways to Correct Anterior Pelvic Tilt
This link explores anterior pelvic tilt and offers suggestions.
Long-distance training
This article offers a basic guide to coaches on how to coach their runners throughout a cross country season. The article mainly goes into detail on the physical part of training, and nearly negle...
Anatomy of the Human Brain
The article goes into great detail about the many parts of the human brain. An article like this can be helpful because it can help me understand the part of the brain that associates with exercis...
If you eat food, watch this.
Amazing TED talk on what we are putting into our bodies. Highly recommended for anyone and EVERYONE who eats food. Period. 20 min that just may change your life.
Have We Found Alien Life? | Popular Science
This breaks all the rules, perhaps it is time to rewrite the rulebook.
Lactate threshold
In a nutshell, training the different body systems for different events. We discussed training the systems and this is a prime example of training a system to provide the energy needed. The whole h...
Altitude Training
Altitude Training, our Olympic athletes do it to super infuse their bloodstream with RBC's to increase oxygen carrying capabilities.
Altitude Training
Another video to break down the science behind it. Our Olympic Athletes do it to gain an advantage and here's why!
Special population training
Kids in training. I...coached 7,8 and 9 year old kids in football exposing them to some serious hits. This is just another form of training.
Special population training
More kids training-let the uproar begin. I mean, there really isn't much data out there yet to support or go against this much training. My gut tells me this is wrong, but again, I've coached young...
More special population...
Getting kids out doors and helping the obesity epidemic. This video is short and sweet, less than 90 seconds which is good for kids. You lose their attention span quick!
Sexual Differences in the connectome of the human brain
scientific research done on the differences in the human brain between the sexes. APA citation: Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain. (n.d.). Retrieved February 10, 201...
His and Her Brain
Very detailed research on the difference between his and her brains. APA citation: His and Her Brain. (2005, January 1). Retrieved February 10, 2015, from http://cranepsych.edublogs.org/files/2...
Decision-making May Be Surprisingly Unconscious Activity -- ScienceDaily
Neuroscience Well this is a little rough to handle. Free-will aside, decision making maybe part of the subconscious and not part of your active brain. There is an interesting thought. Our decision...
Tibetans inherited high-altitude gene from ancient human | Science/AAAS | News
We are just beginning to understand all of this. How exciting.
Biomimetics- Documentary
Biomimetics is the study of the structure and function of biological systems as models for the design and engineering of materials and machines. It is amazing just how much we can learn from nature...
Psychological attributes, not physical gifts, of young athletes predict success, say coaches in a new study
In a new study examining how much psychological and physical characteristics matter in the development of young athletes, psychologist Shari Kuchenbecker,Ph.D., and co-authors from Loyola Marymount...
Exploring Why Some People Get Fitter Than Others - NYTimes.com
Some people are non-responders. But here is the question: does non-response genetically = no long term health benefits?
Gut-brain link grabs neuroscientists
Neurobiology research is starting pile up relating gut bacteria to mental health. Very interesting read!
Antioxidants Speed Up Lung Cancer | The Scientist Magazine®
Remember this does not mean taking or consuming antioxidants will kill you, but it does suggest they may not be as beneficial as originally assumed in the prevention of chronic diseases, especially...
Three main Energy Systems
covers the three energy systems before, during, and after exercise. as well as how to approach the proper use and fuel of all.
Ancestral DDT exposure promotes obesity and disease
DDT is shown to promote epigenetic changes that increase obesity and disease in subsequent generations.
Ancestral DDT exposure promotes epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of obesity
This is incredibly frightening.
Alzheimer's Origins Tied to Rise of Human Intelligence - Scientific American
Everything comes with a biological cost or trade-off.
Missing link found between brain, immune system; major disease implications -- ScienceDaily
I think when I studied anatomy and physiology we pretty much ignored the lymph system as well as myofascial tissue...both of which we now know are way more important than they used to think.
Missing link found between brain, immune system; major disease implications -- ScienceDaily
I think when I studied anatomy and physiology we pretty much ignored the lymph system as well as myofascial tissue...both of which we now know are way more important than they used to think.
Research shows the Paleo diet is absurd
This actually suggests our genes and especially the genes of our microbiome evolve much more rapidly than we originally thought and therefore we have adapted to eating grains, legumes, etc... often...
Hacking Into Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Serotonin, Endorphins and Oxytocin | Thai Nguyen
The biology of happiness.
Nutrition-Eating Insects
Are bugs a potential solutions to various environmental risk and nutritional needs and concerns related to current food production trends? The video presents interesting evidence for the potential ...
Diet
Diet is not just a term for weight-loss. It's a restricted course of food one allows him/herself. This is one of the main points from a Canvas discussion.
Can genes predict foreign language learning skills?
Every frustrated language learner has, at some point, proclaimed that they just "don’t have the gift" of picking up foreign languages. It’s easy to imagine that the aptitude for learning a ...
People With Schizophrenia Have Different Throat Bacteria | Popular Science
Different doesn't necessarily mean causal but it does kind of make you wonderif perhaps we are in less control than we like to think....
Anatomical Planes and Spatial Relationships in the Human Body
An in depth video describing the different planes of the body. I decided to post this video because I learn best with hands on and visual aids so hopefully this will help other student to learn ...
Ferret's Brain Study
This article goes more in depth into the experiment mentioned in lecture on September 1st.
UCSF Researchers Control Embryonic Stem Cells With Light
All I can say is "way cool"...not so much the control part but how amazing it is the way our neural net develops.
Epigenetics of drug abuse
This article looks at epigenetics, a topic we touched on in lecture on September 8th, and its relation to drug use. While this article covered the biology and physiology of the topic, it was also r...
Youth resistance training does not negatively effect development, the 2014 International Concensus
In class on 09/08/2015 we discussed how heavy youth resistance training can potentially damage growth plates and motor development - however, according to the 2014 Concensus, it does not. This site...
Influence of the treatment of developmental dysplasia in the hip
In this article the treatment of hip dysplasia in developing children. This disease affects the motor abilities of the child and can lead to adverse effects in later development. This touches on th...
Is fish oil good for you? Depends on your DNA | Science/AAAS | News
And another version of this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/inuit-study-adds-twist-to-omega-3-fatty-acids-health-story.html? Of course our genes/heredity influence how effici...
Conscious and unconscious processes in cognition
Also has to do with motor learning and development.
Meta-Anaylsis of sugar-sweetened beverages and Diabetes
Reviews about 7,000 studies from the U.S and the UK which relate sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). There is a high correlation between the two.
Clinical Economics of Type 2 Diabetes
The cost of T2DM in the U.S. is currently estimated at $245 billion. 9% of the population is currently diagnosed with T2DM.
Cost-effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery: Increasing the Economic Viability of the Most Effective Treatment for Type II Diabetes Mellitus
Barbaric surgery is a the most-effective and the quickest treatment of T2DM. But should we be focused on prevention instead?
Stress Sleeping
This article I found very interesting. It talks about a learned helplessness of sleeping in order to avoid stressful situations. As a college student I do feel that I sometimes use sleep as an excu...
Can you think yourself into a different person? | Mosaic
Neuroplasticity is possible if we better understand epigenetics. However, epigenetics only allows so many degrees of freedom as even with that, we still have to work within our genetic constraints...
Can you think yourself into a different person? | Mosaic
Neuroplasticity is possible if we better understand epigenetics. However, epigenetics only allows so many degrees of freedom as even with that, we still have to work within our genetic constraints...
The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see - The Washington Post
Definitely demonstrates the power of the unconscious mind on our biology and physiological processes.
Cold temperatures may help shed pounds | Science/AAAS | News
I knew about this from a metabolic perspective, but would not have attributed this to the gut microbiome. But I guess since the microbiome has been shown to influence metabolism, this makes sense.
Kill Switches Keep GMOs on a Short Leash - D-brief
This likely has application far beyond GMO's. Can anyone say "super soldier" with kill switches built in if they go rogue?
Kill Switches Keep GMOs on a Short Leash - D-brief
This likely has application far beyond GMO's. Can anyone say "super soldier" with kill switches built in if they go rogue?
Week 3 Stress and Health
This author writes about stress in his book, and the following interview is spotlighting that book. In the interview, stress and health is discussed in the context of wellness. The components of he...
More Evidence Emerges for Transmissible Alzheimer's Theory - Scientific American
What is most disconcerting here is the thought that perhaps standard medical sterilization techniques cannot destroy these B-amyloid protein seeds and that those might be the transmissible.
The brain communicates on several channels | Max Planck Society
The input from within the brain influences how we receive information coming in from the environment and both pathways work on different frequencies.
U.K. Scientists Given the Go-Ahead to Edit Genomes of Human Embryos — NOVA Next | PBS
GATTACA here we come!
Allison Johnson Hub - TheHubEdu.com
This discusses the skeletal system and the divisions and functions that it operates. This is important because we briefly discussed this in a couple slides in class today, so I felt it's important ...
Anti Mouse Antibody
This fast assay uses ELISA strip-plates that are pre-coated in different wells with anti-mouse heavy-chain capture antibodies (anti-IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3, IgA and IgM) or anti-mouse light-chain ...
Streptavidin Magnetic Beads
Absolute Mag™ Streptavidin Magnetic Particles, 50 nm (# WHM-X047) offer easy affinity isolation or handling of biotinylated nucleic acids, antibodies, or other biotinylated ligands and targets with...
What a Happy Cell Looks Like - The Atlantic
Loneliness, negative experiences, threats, uncertainty.....this is stress and it causes this acute response physiologically - which can have longer term consequences.
Week II- The new Babinski reflex
This article is relevant because of how it addresses the need for babinski reflex reform
Activities and toys that encourage motor development
This article tells of different activities and toys that can be used to improve specific motor skills.
What children think, feel and know about throwing overhand.
This study was conducted to see how children taught different ways to throw, felt about their experience. Also what they liked and disliked about how they were taught, and how important they though...
FMS
This article goes into depth of the importance of early FMS development in children. FMS can affect students and have actually been proven that students are involved in physical activity throughout...
Sex vs. Gender
This article gives us an in depth look into the differences between sex and gender. It talks about the importance between being purely assigned by genetics as sex differences generally are, gender ...
Applying principles of motor learning in upper extremity rehibilitation
This article gives a brief overview of motor learning and its theories and how it can connect to rehabilitating areas of the body.
Motor learning: stages of motor learning and strategies to imporve stages of aquisition of motor skills
The article goes into detail about all the stages in motor learning such as cognitive stage, associative stage and autonomous stage. The article state that a "set of internal processes associated w...
Blood Pressure and gravity
A little video to help us visual learners wrap our heads around how blood pressure is affected by gravity.
Rebalancing The Ecosystem Of 'The Microbes Within Us'
http://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/490432969/eating-yogurt-is-not-enough-rebalancing-the-ecosystem-of-the-microbes-within-us
Why One Neuroscientists Started Blasting His Core
Perhaps he was a little late to the information party here - but the axial connection is new and different.
What increases your vertical jump?
This video is a great source to focus on developing fast twitch fibers to help you increase your vertical jump. Most people think calf raises and box jumps are the way to do it but if you look at i...
Things to avoid during pregnancy because of teratogens
In this article, there is a list of substances that should be avoided during pregnancy. This is because these substances are teratogens. Teratogens affect the fetus and give it abnormalities. In th...
Study identifies brain cells that help us learn by watching others | Neuroscientist News
Basically, it sounds like our expectations influence which neurons fire - which of course then influence how we perceive the event itself.
What Is Down Syndrome?
This article further explains what down syndrome is, and how it is developed. I chose this article, because it relates to atypical development which is one of the topics we have discussed this week...
Zika virus affecting pregnant women
The Zika virus is on an uprising and is very dangerous to pregnant women because it can cause harmful defects to the baby. So women living in the areas with mosquitos carrying the virus are under g...
Terminology for contractions of muscles during shortening, while isometric, and during lengthening
We have clearly seen why terminology is so important in the sports science and medical fields. This article demonstrates the importance of consistency in communication. So many people do not know t...
Fetal Development By Trimester
This is a great resource that goes through fetal development trimenster by trimester. As you progress through each trimester it outlines the body systems that develop during that stage of pregnancy...
Embryonic and Fetal Bone Formation
This is a great study source for learning about fetal ossification. It not only provides a detailed outline of the process of bone formation but, after you go through all of the sections and feel l...
Does HGH Improve Athletic Performance
In the article, they discuss whether HGH (Human Growth Hormones) enhance athletes performance and whether athletes should be allowed to use the substance or not
Adult Schizophrenia Following Prenatal Exposure to an Influenza Epidemic
In class we discussed prenatal neural development. I found this article which discusses a link between prenatal development issues and schizophrenia later in life. It emphasizes the importance of p...
Can newborn babies swim?
After the class discussion about reflexes that we are born with I wondered what else may be necessary for survival? This article briefly explains how a newborn baby up until about 6 months has a sw...
Moro Reflex: How Can Swaddling Help?
This article talks about how swaddling could trigger the development of the moro reflex, and shows what the infants actions are during the reflex.
Anatomy of the Human Brain
The article goes into great detail about the many parts of the human brain. An article like this can be helpful because it can help me understand the part of the brain that associates with exercis...
Sex in College
We talked about sex in the college setting, and how "hook-up" can mean something different to so many people, and that it is not just "having sex" to another person it could be as simple as hanging...
Evolution could render gene drives useless—or more useful — NOVA Next | PBS
This sounds good in theory - I am not so sure it makes sense in practice. In fact, I think this might get us in trouble in the long-term. Just a thought.
Wrist Ligament Tear Surgery
This is a video that goes into detail about wrist ligament injuries, anatomy of the wrist, and a mild description of wrist surgery. This video intrigued me because I injured my wrist when playing b...
Wrist and Hand muscles
This is a powerpoint that has the muscles and their actions associated with the wrist and hand movements.
Manipulative Skills
In this article it goes into depth of fundamental manipulative skills, and how it runs on a timeline and how you should help your child if they are struggling developing fundamental manipulative sk...
Sensory Benefits of Sports
This article explains the positive and possible constraints of each sport, pertaining to the sensory development of an individual and the how the sport impacts sensory skills. One example of gymnas...
Ways to Correct Anterior Pelvic Tilt
This link explores anterior pelvic tilt and offers suggestions.
3 Top Stocks to Buy in Wearables | Business Markets and Stocks News | host.madison.com
There are 3 recommended stocks to buy in wearable technology. If they are recommending us to buy these stocks, that means the products are doing well and are recommended. The first one is Apple. It...
Importance of exercise in College
College students will be more consumed in their school work, eating junk food, and creating a lifestyle that doesn't enable them to make exercise a priority. These are 5 reasons that college studen...
What is the POSE method of running?
Great video summarizing the universal aspects of running form, and concisely breaking down the POSE method's benefits towards preventing injury, running faster, and running longer.
Silent Spring—I - The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/06/23/silent-spring-part-2 http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/06/30/silent-spring-part-3
Eccentric Muscle Contraction
A closer look at common exercises that cause an eccentric contraction....
Injury Prevention
As the mom of a child with physical challenges, I love the sports injury prevention tip sheet from the American Academy of Pediatrics....terrific resource! Correlates to Week 3 discussion - workin...
Hypermobility in Children
While we deal with hypomobility in our home, this is still a terrific resource to consider - as many movements impact both hyper and hypo mobility! Correlates to Week 4 discussion - chronic issues...
Physics 4 kids
Fascinating website designed for children - helps to explain to my son in a fun way how velocity, speed and motion impact him directly! Correlates with Week 6 discussion - how velocity, speed & ac...
Kids in Motion (Sport Movement)
Guidelines by age group to support continued movement for children. Also can be used to identify opportunities for growth/support. Correlates to Week 7 discussion - which for my son requires iden...
Disorder - Neurofibromatosis
Since we went over disorders I thought I would pick the one I knew least about and I found this article. This article surprised me in a lot of different ways but it also gave me more information ab...
Food and antibiotics
We talked about food, and how some are pumped with antibiotics and how it destroys the biome in the intestine. I found this interesting because while the foods are pumped with them, I was curious a...
Gut Microbiome
This is an article about the microbiome in our intestine, and how this microscopic environment plays a role in our lives
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Muscular Endurance
This source explains what muscular endurance is along with explaining its importance, and ways of measuring it and improving it. It defines muscular endurance as the ability of a muscle group to co...
Infant Motor Development in Swimming Study
Abstract via PubMed: "Alberta Infant Motor Scale (AIMS) scores were examined before and after four months of swimming classes in 12 babies (ages 7 to 9 mo.) assigned to Experimental (n = 6) and Con...
Children and Sports, from the perspective of an Editor in Chief at NIH Sports Health (2014-11-6).
This article states a personal perspective from Dr. Edward M. Wojtys, an orthopaedic surgeon and member of the NFL Injury and Safety panel. He states two case histories of patients he saw and a lit...
Why Exercise is Important
This article relates to what we discussed about in class because it describes the benefits of exercising and how it can improve your life. Some benefits of exercising that the article talks about i...
What Comes with Down Syndrome
This content is related to our class learning because we discussed Turner Syndrome and how it pertains to girls only having one "X" chromosome. This site felt important to add, it has detailed writ...
Growth and Maturation
This video basically explains the concept of growth and maturation. Growth occurs over the years and height change will occur especially in the steps of puberty. With maturation, you notice your ph...
Blood Pressure Readings
This article shows precise description and information about the numbers that come out of our blood pressure readings. General knowledge of what the numbers in the blood pressure test mean, is wha...
The Meaning of being Fit and Physical Healthy
Although the definition of fit was introduced to us in class, there may have been more underlying information or the definition of fit not being complete. Therefore this article by LiveStrong, gi...
Strength and Endurance Workouts
Strength and Endurance are important characteristics for living a healthy life. And this forum shows various exercises an individual can perform to improve these aspects of one's life.
Mechanism of Thyroid Hormones
The mechanism of action and physiologic effects of thyroid hormones, and in Chapter 5 it talks about the different functions of the hormones in the body, and how it effects our endocrine, and muscl...
Developmental Milestones
This article/overview is a decent supplement to the introduction we were given into certain reflexes and the stimuli that cause them. Furthermore, the article discusses specific milestones and thin...
Babinski Reflex
I thought this video illustrated the Babinski reflex pretty well. I remember trying this reflex during one of my Physiology lab and my foot was more flexing than extending so I wanted to know more...
The Grasp and Moro Reflexes
These are in depth descriptions of how the reflexes are crucial to the child's development and how the reflexes can be displayed, I also liked how there is a part on the abnormal responses to stimu...
Postnatal reflects/knowledge
This has to with chapter 6, and the reflex that newborns learn how to enhance throughout their development during postnatal years.
Grasp and Moro Reflexes: Absence and needs.
This article states and provides information regarding the Grasp and Moro reflexes, determining far enough as to where the physical detriment will occur if the reflex is absent or lasts longer than...
Different Stages of Walking
In class this week, we have been talking about how a baby develops certain motor skills such as walking, running, throwing, and kicking. We discussed how each child goes through the same stages of ...
Locomotor Development (7, 8)
This article talks a lot about locomotor development in early infants, and this relates the the chatter 7, and 8 because it overviews the different locomotor efforts that children develop and learn...
Chapter 9
This experiment appropriately demonstrates the concept of body scaling, and the study shows that children and adult adapt different characteristics through their environment, and this is shown thro...
How to throw a baseball for 7 and 8 year olds
This video shows a little bit of detail in how to throw a baseball for 7 and 8 year old children. As important as it was to show 6 year old kids in class throwing a ball, this shows a further step ...
Chapter 10 (Auditory Figure-Ground)
This article gives some very helpful examples of auditory figure-ground and how that can be applied into real life situations. Which relates to chapter 10, and the section that talks about experime...
The role of locomotion in psychological development
This article is related to our learning in chapter 11 because it discusses locomotion in adults just like we talked about self produced locomotion in infants. This article seemed important enough t...
Socialization process
An explanation of a process which affects us all, called the socialization process.
10/27/17 Chapter 12
This article shows the differences between gender types shown through stereotypes, and gender typing and how it plays an effective role in society.
Personal Training
This article provided in class goes into detail about the harms of some personal training programs. It is important to push yourself but not past a point that is bad for your health
cardiorespiratory fitness
This refers to the ability of the circulatory and the respiratory system to supply oxygen to the skeletal muscles during physical activity. The video provided is the importance of exercise for main...
Safe weight training
Eight training is a very beneficial way to get exercise but there are many precautions that need to be addressed before starting fro the first time.
The importance of Body Composition to your overall health?
This website is important to what we have been discussing in class because we are doing introductions to Body Competition and the Model of Constraints. This is an important part of retaining the kn...
What is Presbyopia?
A short video explaining what presbyopia is in terms of human eyes and eye development. This would relate to what was learned for test 2 regarding "elder eye".
Trisomy 21
I choose this because we touched on it in lecture as one of the genetic factors. This video is a good explanation of what we are learning, it goes into deeper detail about what and why this happens...
Stress and Epigenetics
The effects of stress on not only the physical health of a parent, can be passed to their children through the alteration of genes passed from the stressed mother to the child. Reviewing the effect...
Moro Reflex 3D Illustration
In this video, it allows us as students to really see how the moro reflex happens. In the lectures, it is hard to see this reflex because it is a full body reflex and hard as college students to de...
How to Punt 101
This website gives a video as well as step by step pictures to teach a person how to punt a ball. In class we watch two twins struggle with punting a ball because they didn't have the correct timin...
What is Presbyopia?
Presbyopia is a condition talked about in class during week 8, one of the more important topics mentioned. It states information regarding the condition and what exactly it is about.
Possible Solution to plastics?
This article ties in with the lesson of violence that we have placed on this world and a way they might have found to solve the major problem we are having with the plastic islands that have been d...
Communication
The article is enriching to the readings and offers interesting facts on how to sustain a healthy communication. The element of communication as presented in this article should be safeguarded and ...
What's New in Sexual Therapy?
The sexual therapist article offers information on how best to view one’s sexuality. The understanding of the issue as presented in this article, is key towards promoting healthy psychology. The ar...
What's New in Sexual Therapy?
The sexual therapist article offers information on how best to view one’s sexuality. The understanding of the issue as presented in this article, is key towards promoting healthy psychology. The ar...
Before The Flood
This article is calling people into action for the need to change in the effect of the climate change. There is need to have preparations in place to avoid havoc in future. The article offers appro...
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint
This article gives the most basic options at individual level to reduce carbon footprint. The world should move to green energy to avert the looming crisis of global warming. The article discusses ...
Setting Priorities
This article encourage one to set priorities in life, that enables one achieve meaningful life. It is necessary for people to have goals to be achieved in life, so as to ensure there is accountabil...
The Secret to Raising Smart Kids
This article shows the importance of supporting and allowing children know their talent and grow in them without a pre-set mind. The steps offered in this article are essential in assisting parents...
Turnout for Dancers-Pelvic Rotation
the perfect turnout is a dancers dream but not everyone is able to attain it due to their anatomy and the way they were built. However, some stretches and strengthening exercises can help.
Intro to Running Biomechanics
Here, you can find the break down of how the body performs the task of running. There are also some suggestions on how to improve one's own mechanics.
Ways to Correct Anterior Pelvic Tilt
This link explores anterior pelvic tilt and offers suggestions.
Teratogens
This focuses on the history of teratogens and the ways that they can affect the growing fetus. it also talks about the different types of teratogens and how they came into the works on modern day m...
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The Stages of Development
In depth of prenatal development, beyond what we have covered so far and including what we've covered so far.
Teratogens/ Prenatal Substance Abuse
This article from NCBI relates to chapter 4 that focuses on growth through aging. Teratogens are external influences that can influence fetal growth based on what the mother intakes during the time...
Adolescent Development of Neural Circuitry For Thing About Intentions
A research study of adolescents and adults to determine what portions of the brain they use when asked questions about physical causality and intentional causality.
An Overview of Bone Growth
The article talks about bone growth and hits on topics we've covered in class, and offers a little more in depth information than we have discussed so far. The article focuses on bone specifically,...
How the Endocrine System Works
This video on the Endocrine System is very informational and covers some of topics we have gone over in class this week. In chapter five we have gone over the development and aging of body systems,...
Taking Care of Your Endocrine System
The endocrine system consists of so many hormonal reactions in your body that are affected by both internal/genetic factors and extrinsic factors. Your system's health can be improved and taken car...
Hormone Therapy: Is It Right For You?
This article expresses the positives and negatives of hormone therapy, specifically with estrogen. This relates to our topic in class of how hormone's and the endocrine system influence development...
Go Outside!
A nation wide study was conducted in the US that included 4,520 children, from aged 8-11, which resulted in a plethora of information regarding cognition. The study consisted of a cognition test, w...
Robots learning how to balance like humans
This article describes the breakthrough engineers have made with robotics. In particular, the recreation of the balance system of a human in bipedal robots. This system replaces the quadrupedal rob...
Basic Biomechanics from Australian Coaches
Australian coaches from a variety of sports teams speak on the fundamental components of biomechanics: motion, force, momentum, levers, and balance. They discuss the analysis and the importance of ...
The effect of fine motor skills on handwriting legibility in preschool age children
This study was done on preschoolers to determine the correlation between hand-in0hand motor skills and handwriting. In class we are currently learning about fine motor skills and how the developmen...
Studies on infants grasping
A babies grasp is less evolved than that of adults so it is more difficult for them to pick up objects. This study follows object-oriented behavioral strategies and side preference in 8- and 10-mon...
The effects of exergaming on physical activity among inactive children in a physical education classroom
In this article, it shows the study of Exergaming can produce more sustainable, and more substantially increase the minutes in physical activities in children. Due to the high amount of gaming in c...
Sensory perception and the pleasantness of orange beverages from childhood to old age
This article is describing a study done in 1998 on the pleasantness of different orange beverages on all ages. The drinks ranged in levels of sucrose, citric, acid, and orange flavor. I found this ...
The gendered language of televised sports
In class we have been learning about how gender influences participation and experiences in sports. This article looked at how women's and mens sports are televised in different ways and the media ...
Social Work and Adverse Childhood Experiences Research
This week in class we started talking about ACES or adverse childhood experiences and how they can affect the longterm heath of individuals. This article reviews other studies done on ACES in the p...
Ways to Correct Anterior Pelvic Tilt
This link explores anterior pelvic tilt and offers suggestions.
Strength Training in Children and Adolescents
This article from NCBI is about research done of the effectiveness of strength training for both kids and adolescents. This relates to chapter 16 in the textbook which analyzed strength training an...
Strength Training in Children and Adolescents
This article provides in depth information in regard to appropriate conditions for children participating in strength training. The author begins to explain that children must first be able to unde...
Use of Knowledge by Coaches
This article from NCBI researches how coaches gain new knowledge and how they choose to apply it in their teams. Coaches from many different kinds of sports answered questions about their knowledge...
An Integrated Approach to TGFU
This article begins be defining the concept of Teaching Games For Understanding, including the foundational characteristics as well as the potential benefits. As the article proceeds, it touches on...
Effects of Exercise on the Endocrine System
The effects of exercise are more than just musculoskeletal as it helps produce certain hormones and reduce others.
Retained Primitive Reflexes can Lead to Problems
It is well understood that children are born with certain reflexes which help them survive. However, some of these reflexes can carry though to the toddler stage of a child's life, furthermore caus...
Assessing Infant Reflexes
This video from OPENPediatrics, describes how to look and test for reflexes including: moro, rooting, and palming.
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This article just goes further in depth to how children in early stages of locomotion develop. Also it gives the average ages of children when they learn to do these activities and how they achieve...
5 Common Misconception About Getting Old
With all the talk about the effects of aging, I think that it would be beneficial for everyone to see some positive proven truths about aging. This relates to the class by introducing different as...
Development of Ballistic Skills
Ballistic movements are rapid, all-out, forceful movements that reach peak acceleration within milliseconds of their initiation. Ballistic movements are categorized two ways: simple and complex. In...
How Climbers Train Grip Strength
This article goes into how there are people in the world that are able to hold themselves to a rock with little more than a finger and what it takes to get to that point. Since we have been talkin...
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This article explains what kinds of processing issues children can have and how they affect daily life. this article also tells about how motor functions and sensory awareness go hand and hand.
Early development and motor skills
Like we discussed in class on Monday, self esteem appears to have some sort of relationship on motor development. This article that I found starts by saying that children have unrealistically posit...
The Brain and Trauma
This article goes into discussion about the human brain and its reaction and development from early on trauma and abuse. It discusses everyones already known awareness of childhood trauma, but it d...
The effects of aerobic and anaerobic training on fitness, blood pressure, and psychological stress and well-being
This article is very interesting and reliable. The scholarly article explores the differences between aerobic and anaerobic training and how it impacts various structures and functions in the body....
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)
This website gives a great overview and description of ACES, as would any other site. What drew my attention to this specific one was how it goes a great way to give helpful information on how to p...
Effects of Physical Activity on Aging
It is obvious that no one wants to age and that not everyone can afford or likes to take constant medication in order to alter this natural process. However, this study dives into the fact that tho...
Weight loss for obese children
As it turns out, weight loss is completely different for every age group. However, it is also recommended that children should not necessarily loose weight and should just maintain it as they grow ...
Muscle Loss
This is a Harvard article about the loss of muscle over time. And how it is prevented through weight training and physical activity in later years.
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This article is debunking lots of old wives tales, for example the tale of lifting at a young age stunts your growth. This is just one of the aspects that this article hits. they also show how sing...
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one of the biggest points made in this article is that being underweight as a child has adverse affects of the body as an adult as being overweight as a child. children in this article are sectione...
The Impact of Flexibility Training on Performance
This article talks about why flexibility is important and gives examples of some exercises you can do to either increase flexibility or maintain it. If you do not do flexibility promoting exercises...
Active Lifestyles in Youth
This article, published by Michigan State University, goes into explanation of how living and staying consistent to an active lifestyle during early childhood development. Of course, no matter the ...
Obesity Within Childhood
This article does an excellent job at explaining some of the key factors that have a role in increasing one's chances of becoming obese. One of these examples are nutrient-poor diets. It can become...
TGFU
The teaching games for understanding has been an approach that has been around since 1982. The approach as described in this article emphasizes the breakdown of a concept into the simplest form tha...
Five Important Reasons to Vaccinate Your Child
This is an article meant for parents to read. It gives good reasons as to why they should vaccinate their children and why it is a good idea for them to get vaccinated as well.
Why is Vaccinating Children so Important?
The way this article pertains to class is with the reasons on why vaccinations are so important to children at such a young age. The article describes how children receiving vaccinations are less s...
Motor Development stages
I found this video on youtube from Khan Academy Medicine. It correlates with what we are doing in class from nature and nurture and breaks down the motor development stages. Talks about gross motor...
Government makes vaccines a priority
This article pertains to the content learned in class because it talks about the importance of vaccines, why the government is making laws for vaccines stricter, and the outcome of people not getti...
Human Development
This article discusses the difference between girls and boy’s height curves throughout maturation. It goes into depth about the specific age range in which both boys and girls grow from. Girls typi...
A lot of calcium doesn't actually help your bones
This article pertains to what we talked about in class because it talks about bone loss and bone development from calcium. This was important enough to add to my motor development shelf because it ...
Why Maintaining Bone Health Starts in Youth
This article discusses how we treat our bodies when we are younger will affect our bone health later on. The author emphasized how nutrition plays such an important part in strengthening our bones ...
Parents Don't Panic
I chose this website because of what I know about parents, they micromanage their first child and are worried when any little developmental milestone seems out of place. This article explains to wo...
Newborn Reflexes
This article discusses different reflexes newborns acquire at birth and their importance. It talks about how the first few weeks within a person's life, their activity is reflexive. Sucking, rootin...
Steps Towards Crawling
This article important because it relates directly to our class because we have been talking about the development of movement. I found this article very interesting because it not only helped soli...
All About Newborn Reflexes
In this article they talk about the reflexes that infants develop and why they happen. It was very interesting to me to learn that a lot of these reflexes disappear after time. This article also ex...
Baby milestones
This articles describes the milestones that occur throughout a baby's first couple of years. It discusses specifically how a baby learns to roll over and how they manage to do that with such little...
Stages of Development
This article summarizes each stage of development. From infancy to late adulthood. It is interesting to compare and contrast the different stages of development. It is also interesting to see that ...
Helping Kids Development Locomotion Skills
In this article, it goes over most of the locomotion skills kids start to develop throughout their childhood and how to help them develop these skills. They also talk about what locomotion skills a...
Catching and Kicking, for Kids!
This article caught my eye because of how well it explains the stages children go through to become proficient at ball skills. It has numerous ideas on how to make tasks slightly easier or more cha...
18 Easy Ways to Improve Gross Motor Skills in Children
This article explains how gross motor skills are in children and why they are important. They give examples of how you can improve their motor skills in different ways and in different scenarios. ...
What to Expect-Play Ball
This article discusses what exactly parents could expect when the times comes for their child to begin throwing and catching a ball. It goes in depth about how this fundament motor skill is develop...
How vision changes
This article discusses how vision how vision changes as you age. It goes in depth as to what one should expect in regards to their sight as they age. It continues to explain what is normal, the sym...
