Black Board Post

Cynthia
Topic: Alzheimer’s disease and ways to prevent and much more
– affects those who are mainly 65 and over
– There are different stages of Alzheimer’s ranging from just forgetting where items are paced to more severe where you are affects psychically capabilities
– Alzheimer is due to protein build up within you brain

Gabriel
Topic: art therapy
– art therapy has helped those to calm more and be less nervous about themselves
– Helps those with ptsd and stress disorders
– Also these arts range forms forms sculpting to Crocheting

Fariha
Topic: modifying geneo/ gene editing
– This technology allows for changing and modifying of genes
– Has been question for it’s ethicality
– It creates an issue of safety concern and justice

May 16, 2023

Name: Reem

13. Stress and the Effect on the Immune System

  • Stress can be both positive and negative for your immune system
  • Stress can support immune system health by stimulating inflammatory responses
  • However long-term stress can be damaging to the overall health of the body
  • Cortisol is the body’s stress hormone. It is released by the adrenal glands
  • This topic is important to the presenter because the consequences of stress can be latent and many other diseases could be attributed to underlying stress.

Name: Stanley

14. Health Implications of Boxing

  • Parkinson’s Disease is associated with consequences of boxing,
  • Many varying changes in the rule of boxing
  • Overtime rules have changed to try and improve the safety of boxing and participants
  • This topic was important to the writer because they have alway been interested in boxing. They were inspired by athletes such as Muhammad Ali and their illness that resulted from boxing

Name: Raymond

15. Exoplanets and the Life Beyond

  • The finding of exoplanet is important because we can determine if there is life in other parts of the solar galaxy
  • The discovery of a magnetic field on an exoplanet is vital in determining if life is sustainable.
  • The finding of water is also paramount in the support of biological life
  • This topic was important to the presenter because exoplanets are useful for understanding our own planet and the universe as a whole. Studying exoplanets helps us understand what life outside our home is like or and even that of distant galaxies

    Xavier
    Topic: Mental Illness
    Viewership of mental health on both men and women and how society views men’s mental health especially in the black community
    – environmental factors can lead to depression and bipolar disorder
    – Crime and homelessness can affect one mentally
    – 77% black men suffer from depression
    – solution: more out reach
    – Chose topic because he can relate

    Daniel
    Topic: environmental and mental health connection between each other in Japan
    – The environment was led to help with depression and mental health
    – Natural disasters are affecting the environment in Japan and this can lead to affecting the mental health of others
    – Chose topic because interest arise to mental health and the environment such as environmental issues

    Walter
    Topic: lack of supermarket keeps the society under poverty
    – For every 25 deli there is only 1 supermarket
    – Deli in a way push the idea of eating junk food
    – Obesity levels have skyrocketed
    – Obesity level has doubled in children

    Max
    Topic: genetics and psychiatric disorder
    – genetics play a critical role
    – Understanding genetics in psychiatric disorder then it can show for treatments that can help combat against it or create treatments to one day cure

    Ziri
    Topic: woman vulnerable to STI due to objectification
    – objectification theory
    – Adversarial Sexual Belief

    Carlos
    Topic: fentanyl and the opioid crisis, the impact on society
    – fentanyl is a synthetic Opioid
    – Affects the mind and destruction in people’s lives
    – Overdosed fentanyl has tripled in two decades