Drugs And Pregnancy: Drugs Affect On The Baby
.... advice face increased risks of losing their babies once
they are born. In some States, they also risk criminal prosecution. (3)
Children born to women who use drugs like alcohol, tobacco, or
cocaine may have long term health problems. (2)
Pregnancy and Smoking
Cigarette smoking is associated with severe adverse conditions in
newborns, including low birth weight. Infants whose parents smoke are
unusually susceptible to pneumonia and bronchitis during their first year.
(1)
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Depression And Its Causes
.... Some
causes for depression include a family histoy of verbal, physical, or
sexual abuse. The separation or loss of a loved one, a family history of
depression, incarceration, pregnancy, lower social statuses, homosexuality,
and mental retardation could also cause a child or young adult to become
depressed. Doctors say that the depression symptoms for kids are the same
as in adults, except that children suffer more from physical symptoms such
as hallucinations, agitation, and phobias. This depr .....
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Dreaming: Function And Meaning
.... on the function and meaning of dreams to be
partly right and partly wrong. Its proponents argue that dreams may have
both physiological and psychological determinants, and therefore can be
either meaningful or meaningless, varying greatly in terms of psychological
significance.
Interpretation Of Dreams Revisited
If we are to understand Freud's view of the dream, we need to consider
his concept of the dreamer's brain. We know today that the nervous system
contains two types of nerve cells (excitatory .....
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Human Memory Organization.
.... has
no real capacity for storage.
Medium Term : This is where all of the information from the short term memory
comes to be processed. It analyses it, and then decides what to do with it (use
it, or store it). Here also is where stored information is called to for
processing when needed. This kind of memory has some kind of limited storage
space, which is used when processing information, however the trade-off is that
is slower than Short term memory.
Long Term : Long term memory is the dumping groun .....
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On Ockham's Razor And Gulf Ills
.... has been attributed to a variety of
causes, including, according to the Presidential Advisory Committee, these
top 10 candidates:
Biological warfare agents
Chemical warfare agents
Depleted uranium in shells, armor
Infectious diseases
Oil-well fires
Pesticides
Petroleum products
Stress
Pyridostigmine bromide as an antidote to poison gas
Vaccines
Several of these putative causes, such as oil-well fires, can be eliminated
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Sturge Weber Syndrome
.... to male or female, or race.
Another possible cause could be a congenital anomaly, which was suggested
in 1963, but is merely a possibility with no evidence to support this
theory.
The patients with the Sturge Weber Syndrome are usually only
impaired on one side of their physique. They experience slow reflexes or
the inability to even move a limb opposite the port-wine stain.
Retardation is by far the worst of all effects. Most do not endure
retardation, but in some causes the extent has b .....
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Sports Therapy
.... mentally practice their events on the
eve of competition.
When it comes to sports, the winning edge throughout the world of
sports may have less to do with strength and talent, and more to do with,
what sports psychologists call it, mental toughness. Sports psychologists
James Loehr, calls "mental toughness," the ability to handle and even enjoy
the psychological pressure of a competitive situation. (Harry Hurt, 1996,
p.12) Many of today's best athletes seek help from sports psychologists, in
order t .....
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The Battle Against AIDS
.... of the cells. These molecules are
called CD4 receptor molecules, and the cells themselves are often referred
to as CD4 cells. When an AIDS virus enters one of these cells, the virus
inserts its genes into the cell's reproductive system and uses it to
produce more HIV. This infection kills the CD4 cell and spreads AIDS
viruses to other CD4 cells, where the process is repeated.
HIV can be present in the body for 2 to 12 or more years without
producing any outward sign of illness. An infected .....
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Understanding Panic Disorders
.... of illnesses. The program's
purpose is to educate the public and health care professionals about the
disorder and encourage people with it to obtain effective treatments. To
continue , in a panic disorder, brief episodes of intense fear are
accompanied by multiple physical symptoms (such as heart palpitations and
dizziness) that occur repeatedly and unexpectedly in the absence of any
external threat. These “panic attacks,” which are the hallmark of panic
disorder, are believed to occur when the bra .....
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The Quest To Understand The Origins Of Humans
.... was usually used as a justification of those actions. People
were not responsible for the killings, instead gods were. When people can
not handle problems, which arise every day in front of them, they try to
hide under the mask called god, but by doing that they do not solve them,
they only ignore and try to escape their everyday problems, which makes
everything worse. The desperate attempt to explain their own existence took
people to the creation of many various myths, which also incorporated in
them man .....
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Is Psychology A Science?
.... and scrupulous
tests to see if it describes reality. The scientific method works well in
observing and recording physical data and in reaching conclusions which
either confirm or nullify a theory.
During the mid-19th century, scholars (although at that time probably
termed philosophers) wanted to study human nature with the aim of applying
the scientific method to observe, record, and treat human behavior that was
deemed as unnatural. They believed that if people could be studied in a
scientific manner, .....
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All You Need To Know About AIDS
.... It probably was spread especially fast by
primarily female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of
STAGGERING proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated
that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That
figure is increasing. And what occurred there will, if no cure is found,
most likely occur here among heteroosexual folks.
AIDS was first seen as a dise.ase of gay males in this
country. This was a result of the fact th .....
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No One Can Prepare Themselves For A Sudden Death
.... children may not see death as “real." This is conformed by
cartoon characters who “die” and “come back to life” again. Children ages
five and under may be filled with questions about what death is, how it
happens, and why it happens. These questions are part of a young child's
grieving process.
The questions of whether a young child should be allowed to attend
the funeral and what he should or shouldn't see- has seen much debate.
Generally attending funeral is okay. However a child under seven should not .....
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Hypnosis
.... experiences. When a hypnotist induces a
trance, a close relationship or rapport develops between operator and
subject. The responses of subjects in the trance state, and the phenomena
or behavior they manifest objectively, are the product of their
motivational set; that is, behavior reflects what is being sought from the
experience.
Most people can be easily hypnotized. The depth of trance, however, will
vary from a light state close to waking, to a profound state of
somnambulism. A profound trance is .....
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Alternative Medicine
.... of medical practice and herbal
medicine. I became interested in alternative medicine after show on a news
program like 20/20 or Dateline. I thought it would be interesting to find
our what other sources there are for help when I am ill.
Alternative medicine twenty years ago was an obscure term. Only 5
to 10 years ago, most physicians would have dismissed alternative medicine
as a fad that was perhaps a remnant of the 60's pop culture. An article in
American Family Physician, stated that a survey .....
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