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ADHD: Misplaced Beta Waves

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For this action project we had to research and emulate a mental disorder. I choose ADHD because of its prevalence & my own experience with the disorder. For the recreating the state of mind I made an obnoxious atmosphere before presenting. if you want to recreate the scenario First get some sort of strong smell in that can be from leaving your trash can open to the preferable smell of food flooding your room, Second play some sort of active or lyrical music such as dance, rap, EDM or pop. I used Atomic Karate by TWRP & Adrenaline Jack wall if you want to recreate the exact situation. Finally have some sort of social media on your phone and another tab. before playing the video: Afterward we had to graph and create a function for the graph guessing the brain wave through out the lesson along with a flier compiling all the information we found during the project

Myopia

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For this unit of Disease we learned about the organization of the human body and how the different organ and organ systems interact with each other. for this project we had to take a disease that runs in our family and show the ripple effect it will have on the body. for this project I choose nearsightedness as it runs in both sides of my family and because of how common it is I thought there could be some interesting patterns with the disease. Nearsightedness or myopia is a deformity in the eye caused by the eye being longer or the lens focusing light in front to the retina. It can be caused from the environment by spending the majority of your time focused on objects close to the eye, such as books and screens. The other cause is hereditary . Myopia can be a symptom of other diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure that can damage blood vessels in the eye. The most common treatment is glasses as they are much cheaper when compared to eye surgery which can cure to a...