Sleep Apnea

 

 Sleep Apnea is one type of insomnia, this sleep disorder do not allow affected people to breath well while they sleep. Some of the people with this disorder are not aware of the times they wake up in the middle of the night because of lack of breath. On the other hand they might be experiences some consequences such as depression, heart problems, sleepiness, and lack of attention. This disorder could be genetic or by age deterioration, of the brain. Another obvious reason for this disorder is obesity, because people who are obese could have or are more than likely to have breathing problems. In these cases the best way to get back on track with sleep is to have a surgery that would remove a tissue that does not let the breathing function well. Of course another good recommendation is to lose weight and people with sleep apnea are asking to do so. This is very interesting because I think I might have this sleep disorder, but I since I remember I have been having problems breathing. When I was a year old I was diagnose with Asthma which supposedly was treated on time so I did not need any help with it, but I have always have problems breathing in clubs or places with smoke in it, and problem sleeping too. I do not know if there is some connection with Sleep Apnea but sounds very familiar.

 

This video shows some issues of sleep apnea and how to treat it.

Intersexes

Intersexes are individuals who born with both female and male genital parts. It seems to be a mixture of a woman and a man. Intersex is define as, in humans and other animals, is the presence of intermediate or atypical combinations of physical features that usually distinguish female from male. This is usually understood to be congenial, involving chromosomal, morphologic, genital and/or gonadal anomalies, such as diversion from typical XX-female or XY-male presentations, genital ambiguity, or sex developmental differences. This means that a boy can look like it from the outside but not from the inside and vise versa with girls as well. It also be the case of a person with both genitals parts, or someone with deform genital part that could look like the opposite genital part. There are a lot of different ways someone could be considered an intersexes, for example Hermaphrodites, which are individuals who born as a mixture of both a female and a male. In the United States there is an approximation of 1 of every 100 children have some sort of genital mal function, which could be lead to be considered an intersex person. The most weird part is that a lot of these people regardless of the fact that they born with this condition, intersex anatomy it’s discover until they reach puberty or later in their lives, in some cases even after death. Sometimes even intersexes do not realized they have this problem and die with out knowing it.

OLFACTION

Olfaction is one of our senses, which are very useful to live a proper life. olfaction , the sense of smell, and I believe this is the most important sense, because it helps us in so many ways to smell unwanted things and be aware of some dangerous substances. For example, let's say there is a past due milk in the refrigerator and you want to drink some without knowing it is bad, but you do not have the sense of smell and drink it. That could be dangerous because if you do not smell it is bad you would most likely just drink it and get sick. You might be able to taste it is bad, but maybe by that time it’s too late and you drink part of it. It could also affect your daily normal life issues such if you smell good or if someone smells good, and a person with lack of sense of smell is not able to smell a good perfume. Something that could be very dangerous as well is not being aware when your house or any place is on fire or have a strong smell of gas. That could be dangerous because if a person is not able to smell the house on fire she/he could burn alive.  These are some of the simple things that could change someone’s life, because it makes that person to be in so much danger and not be able to smell the greatest things this world has such as the smell of earth and fresh air.

This is a very interesting video where you can see people who have lack of olfaction and how does that affect their lives.

Severe Impairment of Episodic Memory.

 

 

Episodic memory is very important for all human beings that want to remember a good memory. These memories are the ones that we keep on storing through out our lifetime, and that is why they are very important to be able to remember episodic memories because it give us the opportunity to remember good and bad times of our life. Some Patients with severe impairment of episodic memory are not able to remember their past memories, and they are not able to stored new events that they will not remember in the future. Imagine not be able to remember your first kiss, the time you graduate from elementary, or any simple event as one of your birthdays. These are just some of the hundred of things a person could not remember after damage in the brain to the hippocampus and episodic memory. I can only imagine how hard if not impossible to someone with this disorder to get marry, but I believe that having an impairment of the episodic memory would allow a patient to remember who they want to marry. Even worse than that I think they can not even fall in love, because how can they fall for someone they do not remember? It is just sad to see brain damages such as impairment of the episodic memory, because everyday its like a new day I mean patients with this brain damage do no have the ability to storage new information and some of the old memories are no longer there it is almost imagining an empty pumpkin.

 

This video explains some of the issues paintients with some kinds of dementia experience or face everyday.

Language Acquisition Device

 

It is amazing how humans are able to learn language as something that is meant to be learned. We are able to understand something that should confuse us because of the fact that we never hear any of those sounds before birth. Language is a subject that has scientists interested, and even after many researches they have not found any specific answer that would clarify this mystery for us. Noam Chomsky believe that humans have what he called the language acquisition device (LAD), basically what this means is that it is a mechanism that allows children to acquire language quickly almost instantly from their native language speakers or adults. Researchers have found that genes do help on language matters, but it takes more than one gene that affects language and it is not easy to know for sure. Some of the factors that help a lot with language development are family interaction, and intelligence. I believe that intelligence its not that important to language evolution I mea maybe it is been prove that it does have an effect, but I do know a lot of people who have a large vocabulary, and they are not that smart. For example both of my children learn how to speak at different ages, and my daughter still have problems pronouncing some of the words, but intelligence wise they are both very smart. But as I said I might be wrong because genes are very powerful on every human’s evolution and transformation aspects, but I just believe that any one could become a very intellectual person no matter from where they came from as long as they try hard and their best.

 

I found this video in which explains in more detail about language acquisition device and how it works.