Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Things I have learned from this semester
Being that this is my second term taking the class. I notice that the class was very similar however the opinion of the people in the class are different. Everyone has there own idea of one subject. One thing that I did learn though was about politics and the way they are treated.Mainly because of the politician race that is taking place now. I notice the different ways that the media treats each politician, which i believe and they may argue, is based on race and sex. I am also currently realizing the way America determines feminism and masculinity. This could mean very different things to you, but to me it seems as we are putting the male ahead and making them more dominant to women.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Back to Inner City Kids
This morning on the Regis and Kelly show, Howie Mandell who is the host of deal or no deal was filling in for Regis. So in the begininng he was telling a story about his kids, and he said something that had me thinking. His daughter who is a teacher to 1st graders and starts her days with the kids by having them finish sentences that she starts. So one sentence she starts is "better late than...". The kids say "pregnant". So of course the audience in the show laughs hysterically, and good ole Howie says "those inner city kids, they would know". Now what would make him make that assumption that first grade inner city kids know about pregnancy?
Friday, January 4, 2008
"Boys have it so easy"
In the movie "My so called life" the protagonist thinks to herself while passing the boy she's really attracted to that "boys have it so easy". What do you think she ment by that?
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
my so called life
SCHOOL IS A BATTLEFIELD FOR YOU HEART: I THINK THIS MEANS THAT SCHOOL IS WHERE YOUR HEART FIGHTS THE MOST BATTLES. ONE BECAUSE SCHOOL IS WHERE YOU SPENSD MOST OF YOUR DAY AND MOST OF YOUR YEARS AT. TWO BECAUSE SCHOOL IS ALSO WHERE THE MOST DRAMA OCCURS ALSO LIKE ACTION ON A BATTLEFIELD.
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Study sheds new light on women with anorexia
Monday, December 24, 2007
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Even after they have stopped starving themselves, women with anorexia seem to have trouble enjoying their food and experiencing other pleasures.
That's the thrust of two studies done this year by the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Walter Kaye and Dr. Angela Wagner of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
The first study, published in March in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, showed that pleasure centers in the brains of women recovering from anorexia didn't respond nearly as strongly to sips of sugar water as the brains of healthy women did.
The second study, which appeared this month in the American Journal of Psychiatry, showed that 13 women recovering from anorexia had much different patterns of brain activation while playing a betting game than 13 healthy women did.
Both studies used functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures blood flow to parts of the brain while it is performing different tasks.
In the sugar-water study, the brains of women recovering from anorexia showed much lower responses to the sweet liquid than those of healthy women, particularly in the insula, a prune-sized part of the brain associated with social emotions.
That suggests that in women with anorexia, "they don't need to eat because it doesn't reward them," Dr. Wagner said.
In the new study, two groups of women were asked to guess whether a virtual playing card would show a number greater or less than 5. If they guessed correctly, they won $2. If they were wrong, they lost $1. And if they didn't guess in the allotted time, they lost 50 cents.
The outcomes of the game weren't the important part. What mattered was the way different parts of their brains reacted to the challenge.
In the healthy women, an area known as the anterior ventral striatum, associated with emotional rewards, showed much more activity than in the women recovering from anorexia.
But the former anorexics had stronger responses in a brain region known as the caudate, which is associated with planning and calculating future consequences.
That could mean that "the most anxious individuals with anorexia ... may respond in an overly 'cognitive' manner to both negative and positive stimuli and consequently may not be able to process information about rewarding outcomes of action," the study concluded. "Thus, performance -- that is, being right or wrong -- may become more important than [pleasure] rewards."
That fits with the well-known tendency of women with anorexia to try to please others, control the outcome of events and pay great attention to detail, Dr. Kaye said.
A healthy person "has to have a balance between the here and now and future consequences," said Dr. Kaye, an internationally known anorexia researcher. "Some people may be biased toward the here and now and never look at future consequences, but anorexics tend to be biased toward worrying about consequences."
Researchers wanted to study anorexic women who had regained their weight because they didn't want the dietary effects of the disorder to affect the brain imaging, he said.
The studies don't necessarily mean that anorexic women who are recovering will start avoiding food again.
"Our data suggests that once people recover, they rarely relapse, but they will struggle with these other traits for the rest of their lives."
Anorexia affects about 0.5 percent of all women in the United States, and bulimia -- in which women binge and purge -- affects another 1 to 2 percent of women. About half of anorexic and bulimic women will recover, but among the other half, 10 percent will die over a 20-year period, making it the deadliest of all psychiatric conditions.
Dr. Kaye believes 50 to 80 percent of these conditions may be caused by genetic factors, and said that girls who go on to get the eating disorders show signs at age 8 or 9 of such behaviors as being highly anxious or obsessive about details.
The studies suggest it may not be enough to get women to stop starving themselves, Dr. Wagner said.
"In the past," she said, "we have focused on getting them to eat, but we might now want to work on changing their mindsets" as well, through therapy or medication or both.
By Mark Roth, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Even after they have stopped starving themselves, women with anorexia seem to have trouble enjoying their food and experiencing other pleasures.
That's the thrust of two studies done this year by the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. Walter Kaye and Dr. Angela Wagner of J.W. Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
The first study, published in March in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, showed that pleasure centers in the brains of women recovering from anorexia didn't respond nearly as strongly to sips of sugar water as the brains of healthy women did.
The second study, which appeared this month in the American Journal of Psychiatry, showed that 13 women recovering from anorexia had much different patterns of brain activation while playing a betting game than 13 healthy women did.
Both studies used functional magnetic resonance imaging, which measures blood flow to parts of the brain while it is performing different tasks.
In the sugar-water study, the brains of women recovering from anorexia showed much lower responses to the sweet liquid than those of healthy women, particularly in the insula, a prune-sized part of the brain associated with social emotions.
That suggests that in women with anorexia, "they don't need to eat because it doesn't reward them," Dr. Wagner said.
In the new study, two groups of women were asked to guess whether a virtual playing card would show a number greater or less than 5. If they guessed correctly, they won $2. If they were wrong, they lost $1. And if they didn't guess in the allotted time, they lost 50 cents.
The outcomes of the game weren't the important part. What mattered was the way different parts of their brains reacted to the challenge.
In the healthy women, an area known as the anterior ventral striatum, associated with emotional rewards, showed much more activity than in the women recovering from anorexia.
But the former anorexics had stronger responses in a brain region known as the caudate, which is associated with planning and calculating future consequences.
That could mean that "the most anxious individuals with anorexia ... may respond in an overly 'cognitive' manner to both negative and positive stimuli and consequently may not be able to process information about rewarding outcomes of action," the study concluded. "Thus, performance -- that is, being right or wrong -- may become more important than [pleasure] rewards."
That fits with the well-known tendency of women with anorexia to try to please others, control the outcome of events and pay great attention to detail, Dr. Kaye said.
A healthy person "has to have a balance between the here and now and future consequences," said Dr. Kaye, an internationally known anorexia researcher. "Some people may be biased toward the here and now and never look at future consequences, but anorexics tend to be biased toward worrying about consequences."
Researchers wanted to study anorexic women who had regained their weight because they didn't want the dietary effects of the disorder to affect the brain imaging, he said.
The studies don't necessarily mean that anorexic women who are recovering will start avoiding food again.
"Our data suggests that once people recover, they rarely relapse, but they will struggle with these other traits for the rest of their lives."
Anorexia affects about 0.5 percent of all women in the United States, and bulimia -- in which women binge and purge -- affects another 1 to 2 percent of women. About half of anorexic and bulimic women will recover, but among the other half, 10 percent will die over a 20-year period, making it the deadliest of all psychiatric conditions.
Dr. Kaye believes 50 to 80 percent of these conditions may be caused by genetic factors, and said that girls who go on to get the eating disorders show signs at age 8 or 9 of such behaviors as being highly anxious or obsessive about details.
The studies suggest it may not be enough to get women to stop starving themselves, Dr. Wagner said.
"In the past," she said, "we have focused on getting them to eat, but we might now want to work on changing their mindsets" as well, through therapy or medication or both.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Confronting The World
Just bringing up a question that came up during Jasmine's presentation. Why is it that you don't say anything to those that are stereotyping you? What is holding you back?
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Brian's Post
Sorry about the other post. I wanted to get feedback about my recent facilitation. How good was my verbal communication, the discussion questions/topics, were they qliche or good questions,etc. If you don't remember my facilitation was about clothing styles of teenagers. So far I have seen a lot of questions asked from each group and I like the in depth responses.
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