miércoles, 17 de noviembre de 2010

The Mozart Effect: Making smart babies

Mozart Effect is known as the effect that music can produce in people which sleeps listening Mozart soft melodies or get concentrated with soft music.This effect has been investigated since 1990, when in the United States people started to get information about this effect. In that decade, so many books had been released giving a lot of basis for a theory about how people gets more clever listening music.

This effect, as the researchers had found in these researches, is radicated in Mozart Music’s patterns. Soft music stimulates the relaxation of brain areas, making neuronal processes be more clean. Also, heart beats slower when people is listening soft music, the blood pressure decreases and tired feeling gets reduced when they awake with more strenght.

When kids listen classical music when they are sleeping, also are reducing the probability of having nightmares. Sleeping good makes people face the life with a bigger determination and even, be more happier in day life. These could be the reason why people under Mozart effect makes people be succesful. Determination is the heart strenght to do things when the people lacks of knowledge.

Although this effect has not been scientifically proven (some researchers put this with the placebo effect), mothers make their babies sleep listening to music like Vivaldi or Mozart soft versions that speech therapists have released for sale for many years andbe an important topic to learn evolution of human intelligence over the next year or whether this effect was only a myth.

jueves, 28 de octubre de 2010

Myth and truth about the brain

On the last tuesday, the doctor Pedro Maldonado did a oral interaction about the brain, their anatomical configuration, the weight, number of neurons and synapsis, etc.
The main topic was Myth and truth about the brain.

The ideas were:
-The human brain is very different from the brains of other animals.
This is a myth, because physiologically all the brains are same, with the same components, but localized in different places.

-Every brain function is localized in a specific place of the brain.
This is a myth, because there are many areas of the brain that are activated when an action is realized, for example look, listen, etc.

-The brain main functions is to represent the world around us
This is a myth too, because we perceive the world depending on our interests and our atention.

-The brain functions like a computer.
This is a myth, because a computer hasn´t the capacity of change as the brain. In the brain there the cortical plasticity, which allows that in the case of an cerebral accident the cortex can adapt to continue working of good way.

In general, the people has a false perception of the function of the brain, and is very interesting this topic because much of the population suffer any neurological problem as hearing loss, depression, stroke, parkinson, schizophrenia. In chile this pathologies have increased in the 10 last years.

My opinion about this oral interaction is that was very important for my career and for my was very interesting topic.



jueves, 14 de octubre de 2010

Aborption

On tuesday in the English class, the Doctor Lorena Binfa gave us a nice talk about the sexuality, the position of the women, the aborption.
Some time ago, the view of the society about sexuality was extremaly male chauvinist, the woman was considered a object for the men. Also the sexuality is considered in our country a taboo topic.
The women hasn't straight to give your opinion about any topic, because your opinion wasn't considered by the society.
In topic related to sexuality, the women was very inferior to men. The men can do many things with the women, al times could get to abused them.

In the case of a pregnant woman that would abort your baby, she can not decide about your condition, because the law prohibit it. For the law, all kind of aborption is considered a crime, including the espontaneus aborption

My opinion is that the talk was very interesting because it talked about issues that are important in society, the role of women relative to men is a subject little discussed in terms of topics related to sexuality, not known the rights that women or they can take decisions on issues like abortion, the legal significance that has to act without information

Machismo today is not as strong as in earlier times, which gives more rights to women regarding various issues, the law covers sexual abuse against women and violence.

Sexuality issues could be improved if we were informed from small.

martes, 12 de octubre de 2010

Stress

Today, the pace of life accelerates exaggerated people as they grow. People get more responsibilities and on a demanding world, you must know to comply with many things in a very short time. This makes the stress levels of the population increase, bringing negative consequences both personally and socially.
Among the consequences that comes from this social disease you can find many different types from natural and hair loss, immune system failure and wrinkling of the skin, even as strong as psychological depression and anxiety disorders, and other types like feeding disorders.
To combat this social cancer is widely used to measure anxiety as an escape, although many people abuse them and falls into intoxication and addiction problems because of these drugs are sold without prescription. Alternative medicine is gaining ground as well as treatments with professional psychologists and psychiatrists. Another way which people combat stress is with yoga, massage and tea with many types of herbs and essences.
About people who suffer from this disease, their ages are concentrated between 16 and 50 years, where people are more active than childhood and begin to take greater responsibility ending at the old age, where people's activity decreases substantially.A fast expansion of networks and connectivity of society and the changes it has undergone in technology have meant that the disease reaches even children, which are influenced by the models they see on TV everyday, they begin to suffer from an age increasingly earlier and more severe consequences for their further development.

martes, 7 de septiembre de 2010

Our national dances.

Chile is a country that have many wonderful places in all your area, in each places of Chile there are different costumers, as the food, the wardrobe and the dances.
In the north zone, the weather is very hot, but the northerns wear many chothes very colour and the dances are very funny. In this zone is celebrated the most important festival of dance in honour to Virgen del Carmen, for celebrate this festival come many people of different places of the world.
In the central zone, the tipical dance is "La Cueca", this dance also is considered the national dance. La cueca is tipical of the rural people where the "huaso" try conquer to woman with several tapping.
In the south zone, the weather is more cold, for this the dances are more fast and with many jumps and tapping. Chiloe and your dances are the most known in the south. The most important dances are, the balls, pericona, seguidilla.

My favourite place is Isla de Pascua, in this place the weather is very pleasant and tropical and the peolple is very happy and all the people love your zone.
In the island the tipical dances are "Sau Sau", "Tamure", "Hoko" and "Kai Kai"
The Sau sau is the tipical dance of woman, is very smart and the movements are very slow.
In contrast, the Tamure is very sensual and the movements of hip is very quickly.
The Hoko is a dance of men, where a fight is simulated for the dancers.
And Finally (My favourite dance) is the Kai Kai, in this dance the woman make several figures with yarn while dance

miércoles, 25 de agosto de 2010

My favourite book

Today, I going to talk about my favourite book, I readed it 6 years ago and I loved it very much.
I readed this book because my mother recommended it to me.
The name of the book is "Elegi vivir", this piece is the autobiography of Daniela García, she is a young woman very strong, which had an accident very dangerous. Daniela lost your four extremities when she was hit by a train.
In this book, Daniela tells all your history, the moment of the accident, when was taken to the hospital, all the process of rehab in diferents places of the world, your return to university, and when was able to talk again. All the time she had force for continue with your rehab and with your life in general.

When I readed this book, I'm excited very much, because Daniela is a real example of a woman very strong, courageous and persevering. she after the accident, never losted the hope in relive, she fought always for recuperate and visited many places for your rehab. This book, also help me for decide me to study my career, Physical therapy, because I realized that I could help to many people, even in the most terrible accidents.
When I work, I like me tell my patients about this book, because is very emotions and could help to patients for never lost the hope in the rehab and they can feel that the life is the most wonderful that there and they can say "I choose to live".

viernes, 2 de julio de 2010

MI english experience

This semester, in the english course, I started to write in english, I never had wrote in english, and was a very good experience for me, because this help me to practice more the writing in this idiom. In the start, to do a blog was very difficult for me, but with the time I can write more quickly. Also I achieve extend my vocabulary in english and of this way can understand other things in english in the moment of read.
In general. I think that the experience of write in a own blog was very good for me and for all the course, because with this we are accustomed to work of other way, and now, maybe we are able of understand more thinks that before, we extended our vocabulary and the written english is more familiar for us.
Also from writting I had to learn to search information in different web pages in english, which before of the course cost me very much.
As soon as the advantages, this are the previously mentioned, and I think that the disadvantages can be that never we recieved the corrections of the blogs written, which is very important for can improve in the next blogs and dont to err in the same.
My suggestions for the next course are, sometimes, make groups of work that can investigate more about a topic of interest to students, and write about it, of this way, the blogs would serve also for theirs career and would learn a most technique language.