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Welcome back to my blog. This is for the second Action Project for the STEAM class, Disease. In this class we have been learning about various mental disorders such as autism and OCD. Many disorders have causes that still are not fully known and some diseases do not have treatments. Some diseases are fatal and can be difficult to stop. We have also been looking at the different brain waves that are active during parts of the day. These brain wave patterns could be graphed and calculated with their slope ton find the dominant brain wave at different intervals. To learn more about how people can be diagnosed with certain mental disorders by meeting specific criteria we explored the DSM-5. The DSM-5 is a large manual that explains many mental disorders for the use of medical professionals. In this Action Project I chose to research and do a simulation for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a slow progressing disease that starts with memory loss and gradually leading to the comple...

This is the first Action Project of the winter term in the class Disease. In this class, we have been observing different types of cancer and body systems. We have also talked about how disease can happen. We defined the sciences of the body and organ systems along with the causes of disease which are anatomy, physiology, pathology, epidemiology, and etiology. For this Action Project, we had to pick a disease and interview someone with that disease. I chose to work with Type 1 Diabetes. In this post, you will see what Type 1 Diabetes is and how it affects the body including the patient’s story and life based on the interview. My interviewee has lived with Type 1 Diabetes since she was nine years old and had to grow up with the disease.  Glucose, which is a very important energy source for the body’s cells, needs to leave the bloodstream and go into the cells to provide energy to them. Insulin which is made by the pancreas binds to the cell and signals them to take up glucose. After...