The A&P Professor: July 2020

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Back to Campus Pandemic Teaching | Resilience | TAPP 74

Host Kevin Patton uses the analogy of circus animals adapting to new or misplaced props to help him prepare to move courses back to campus. A lesson on resilience is just what we need right now. Book Club: Southwick & Charney's Resilience book.

00:54 | Back to Campus Pandemic Teaching
21:51 | Sponsored by AAA
22:41 | Resilience
30:51 | Sponsored by HAPI
31:55 | Book Club: Resilience
34:13 | Sponsored by HAPS
35:02 | Staying Connected

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More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. (Steven M. Southwick & Dennis S. Charney)

Back to Campus Pandemic Teaching

21 minutes
Kevin uses his experience as a wild animal trainer in introducing sea lions, lions, and tigers to new furniture, props, and behavior as an analogy for how to get used to the new "pandemic teaching" environment as we return to campus. And, perhaps more importantly, how to get our students comfortable in the changed campus environment.

Check out the Stealth board at: amzn.to/2X4Q3FI

on left is Kevin Patton with a sea lion on a brightly colored seat, on right is a bright pink yoga mat with a yellow Stealth board

Resilience

8 minutes
Resilience is something on our minds these days, right? Kevin discusses and article outlining research in what helps us build resilience—and how we can help our students build resilience.

What Makes Some People More Resilient Than Others (newspaper article) my-ap.us/2COBkIt

person hold small board with word "resilience" written on it

Book Club

2 minutes

Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges
- by Steven M. Southwick & Dennis S. Charney
- amzn.to/3f2sjbF
For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub
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- Contribute YOUR book recommendation for A&P teachers!
  - Be sure include your reasons for recommending it
- Any contribution used will receive a $25 gift certificate
- The best contribution is one that you have recorded in your own voice (or in a voicemail at 1-833-LION-DEN)
For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub

book cover of Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Zoom Fatigue and Other Symptoms of Pandemic Teaching | TAPP 73

What causes Zoom fatigue and how can we prevent it? Host Kevin Patton tackles that as well as another nasty effect of pandemic teaching: stress cardiomyopathy. Plus updates in sensory physiology, the value of keeping skill lists, and the Book Club recommends Chris Jarmey's Concise Book of Muscles.

00:40 | Updating Our Skill Lists
01:59 | Updates in Sensory Physiology
07:30 | Sponsored by AAA
08:05 | Book Club: The Concise Book of Muscles
12:05 | Sponsored by HAPI
14:26 | Zoom Fatigue
29:11 | Sponsored by HAPS
30:06 | Pandemic Heart: Stress Cardiomyopathy
39:48 | Staying Connected

The heart was made to be broken. (Oscar Wilde)

Updating Our Skill Lists

1.5 minutes

Anatomy professor Amanda Meyer reminded us on Twitter that pandemic teaching has given us a lot of new skills that we should be adding to our skill list in our curriculum vitae (CV).

How to describe skills in your CV (some hints) my-ap.us/308zLMR

Updates in Sensory Physiology

5.5 minutes

A few content updates to spice up our teaching.

Is "water" a primary taste in mammals?
- Scientists discover a sixth sense on the tongue—for water (summary of research) my-ap.us/2Zn5uuI
- The cellular mechanism for water detection in the mammalian taste system (research paper) my-ap.us/3etufcO
Do we need cold receptors to feel warmth?
- Changing how we think about warm perception (summary of research) my-ap.us/2DAV8Pj
- The Sensory Coding of Warm Perception (research article) my-ap.us/2DyHNqF
Can you hear your tensor tympani?
- Some People Can Make a Roaring Sound in Their Ears Just by Tensing a Muscle (brief news article) my-ap.us/38Ur7pu
- Voluntary contraction of the tensor tympani muscle and its audiometric effects (case study) my-ap.us/2CAGxmk

Book Club

4 minutes

The Concise Book of Muscles
- by Chris Jarmey
- amzn.to/3h1GW07
For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub
Special opportunity
- Contribute YOUR book recommendation for A&P teachers!
  - Be sure include your reasons for recommending it
- Any contribution used will receive a $25 gift certificate
- The best contribution is one that you have recorded in your own voice (or in a voicemail at 1-833-LION-DEN)
For the complete list (and more) go to theAPprofessor.org/BookClub

Zoom Fatigue

15 minutes

Zoom meetings, webinars, classes, etc., make me tired just thinking about them. I think this is part of Zoom fatigue, that exhaustion we feel from participating in video meetings. Here's a discussion of what Zoom fatigue is and how to combat it. I'm thinking of hosting a virtual telethon to support finding a cure. You in?

How to Combat Zoom Fatigue (article talked about in this segment) my-ap.us/3fx0V6O
Zoom fatigue is real — here’s why video calls are so draining (brief article) my-ap.us/3fs8USo
'Zoom fatigue,' explained by researchers (brief article) my-ap.us/2AZfv83
‘ZOOM FATIGUE’ IS REAL. HERE’S WHY YOU’RE FEELING IT, AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. (brief article) my-ap.us/38XnCyq

Pandemic Heart

10 minutes

I'm calling it pandemic heart but experts call it stress cardiomyopathy. It's also called broken heart syndrome and several other names. One of which involves fishing for octopuses. Whatever you call it, it's incidence has more than doubled due to the pandemic.

Word Dissection
- stress cardiomyopathy
- takotsubo cardiomyopathy
- apical ballooning syndrome
Clarification: The ballooning characteristic of stress cardiomyopathy is often more pronounced in the apical region of the left ventricle.
Incidence of Stress Cardiomyopathy During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic (research article) my-ap.us/3emx0g1
Researchers find rise in broken heart syndrome during COVID-19 pandemic (news summary of the research) my-ap.us/2ZmkKb7
Stress Cardiomyopathy Symptoms and Diagnosis (disease summary from Johns Hopkins) my-ap.us/2CtjE4x
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (disease summary that include a lot of great still and video images of this condition) my-ap.us/3ekWL09
Ancient catching octopus trap. (video showing one method for using takotsubo to catch octopuses) youtu.be/ac9XSKjabjI
Diagram of stress cardiomyopathy (A) compared to a normal ventricle (B) by J. Heuser my-ap.us/303stda

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