Essays Tagged: "Blood pressure"
Sleep and Sleeping Disorders
rast to the waking stated, sleep is characterized by relative Quiescence of physiological functions(blood pressure, breathing, heartbeat). And a relatively low response to external stimuli.What? And I ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia
tensive in late pregnancy. With pre-eclampsia a woman doesn't experience a coma or convulsions, her blood pressure returns to normal after delivery. Although the majority of women who experience pre-e ... er delivery. Although the majority of women who experience pre-eclampsia never get eclampsia-if the blood pressure gets out of hand suddenly, the disease may progress to eclampsia. Eclampsia is pre-ec ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
The Effect of Caffeine on Reactions
p your reactions. I think this will happen because caffeine is a stimulant. This drug increases the blood pressure and stimulates the central nervous system, this also stimulates the action of the hea ... could depend on the size of the person, the sex and how fast it takes them to absorb it into their bloodstream. Also this experiment took place after lunch so people could have been playing football ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The Effects of Hardiness on Stress Levels.
in public awareness that high stress can have serious physical consequences, including increases in blood pressure, a contributor to heart attacks, which in Canada alone killed more than 80, 000 indiv ... isease as a result of stress since sympathetic nervous system arousal is associated with a raise in blood pressure and heart rate. Passive approaches cause pituitary-adrenal cortical reactions, which ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Marijuna: to be legal: or not to be that is the question.
esponds immediately to the chemical nicotine in the smoke. Nicotine causes a short-term increase in blood pressure, heart rate, and the flow of blood from the heart. It also causes the arteries to nar ... the heart. It also causes the arteries to narrow. Carbon monoxide reduces the amount of oxygen the blood can carry. This, combined with the effects produced by nicotine, creates an imbalance in the d ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
This is about an experience I had in the ICU.
irators pumping oxygen for the incapable. The constant flickering lights monitoring everything from blood pressure to heart rate. Just a total nerve wrecking, heart pounding, angina inducing environme ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
How aerobice exercising compares to arobic exercising.
ct on the outcome you will achieve. Overall, aerobic training greatly increases your heart rate and blood pressure while anaerobic training increases your heart rate and blood pressure to a certain ex ... te to a greater extent, but it does not mean that it is the most strenuous exercise that you can do.Blood pressure is also higher with aerobic exercise and not usually stable during all the tests. For ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Response Journal for "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor
family. Mrs. Chestny is on a journey to the YWCA to attend a "reducing class" designed to lower her blood pressure. She insists that her son Julian, a supposed intellectual, educated at "only a third- ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Cocaine - Effects, Risks, Crack, Overdose.
ocaine the first time they use it. Some of the short-term effects include dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, increased energy, decreased appetite, increased blood pressure and increased heart r ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Individual Differences and Stress
y the brain, which heightens our responses, a brief explanation is that adrenaline travels into the bloodstream making the body work harder. The heart rate speeds up, blood pressure raises, the person ... y in the Sympathetic Nervous System, and they are effective in reducing the heart rate and lowering blood pressure. The problem with using drugs to treat stress, is that they only treat the symptoms t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide
Short biography IVAN PAVLOV.
nued his studies and began doing his own research in topics that interested him most: digestion and blood circulation. Pavlov's first independent work focused on the physiology of the circulation of t ... n the physiology of the circulation of the blood (World). He studied the influence of variations in blood volume on blood pressure. He also investigated the nervous control of the heart, and argued th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
What Got Me Thinking
ing of how much I should do. Not only does exercise reduces stress, but it also controls weight and blood pressure. Exercise also reduces the risk of CHD and certain cancers. Of finding out how much e ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Discuss the reasons for the global distribution of heart disease.
s a minimum.For the heart to function properly, your heart needs a steady supply of oxygen from the blood, which flows through the coronary arteries, to the heart muscle. Coronary heart disease is a t ... the lining. This causes the artery to become narrower, then the heart must pump harder to force the blood through. This causes the blood pressure to rise.There are three classifications of Coronary he ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Homeostasis
anges in the activities of other systems. The heart rate, cardiac output, peripheral resistance and blood pressure respond to different degrees of bodily activity, and sometimes our level of activity ... reathing is essential to life: it allows oxygen to be taken in, carbon dioxide to be given off, and blood to be regulated. Processing food within cells in order to obtain the energy needed for a wide ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Risktaking: What Is It and Why We Do It
any second, you will eat that dirt by landing with a SPLAT! You heart beats faster and faster, your blood pressure goes wild, you mouth becomes ridiculously dry, and you have this gigantic urge to kee ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
What are the different ways, physiological and pharmacological, in which blood vessel diameter can be modified? Angelina Lorenos
What are the different ways, physiological and pharmacological, inwhich blood vessel diameter can be modified?Detection of changes in blood pressure (leading to resultant c ... cation of internal and external carotid arteries in the neck) and the aortic arch detect changes in blood pressure. These non-encapsulated nerve endings, located in the adventitial layer of arteries, ... are technically mechanoreceptors; they respond to arterial distension occurring due to a change in blood pressure. Afferents from the carotid region form the fine carotid sinus nerve which ascends in ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
The Brain
art of the brain and is responsible for sustaining th basic functions of life, suc as breathing and blood pressure. It includes three structures lying between and below the two cereral hemispheres, th ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Arousal, emotion and motivation
to those bodily changes that correspond to our feeling of being activated. Increased heart rate and blood pressure, muscular tension and sweating are all examples of this. The autonomic nervous system ... -hour change in a person sleep wake cycle. This also includes changes in body temp., heart rate and blood pressure. As the body temp increases from morning till noon then declines, so does the arousal ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Assessing Blood Pressure
Assessing Blood PressureWhen assessing a patient you must perform numerous tasks. These tasks are used to dete ... Included in a set of vital signs and one of the most important measurement you will collect is the blood pressure ("First Aid & Emergency Care"). This set of numbers is used to determine the amou ... rst Aid & Emergency Care"). This set of numbers is used to determine the amount of pressure the blood is exerting against the arterial (vessels throughout the body that carry oxygenated blood to t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Animal Experimentation
ntial product produces any serious side-effects such as liver or kidney damage, dangerously raising blood pressure or damaging the foetus or nervous system. Scientists and the law need this informatio ... rried out on animals involve mild or momentary distress such as giving a single injection, taking a blood sample or even just a change of diet. If an animal does suffer undue pain or distress, the law ...
Subjects: Science Essays