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- 13401: Lucid Dreaming: Asleep and Aware
- ... This is the most simple method but few can experience it due to the cost (Blackmore 366). Once the dreamer becomes lucid they can do many interesting things such as communicating with the outside waking world. This can be done with the eyes or through breathing. When a person falls asleep, all their muscles are paralyzed except for the eyes and internal organs. By moving the eyes from left to right a predetermined number times, a person can signal things to the outside world. Keith Hearne first discovered this in 1978 and used it to prove that lucid dreams are real and happen in REM sleep. He used a polygraph to determine that when his subject moved his eyes ... by La Berge's research is that dreams occur in an instant. This is not true. The time that elapses in a dream is the same length as the time that elapses in the physical world. La Berge showed this by having his subject signal with their eyes, count to ten, then signal again. La Berge observed that the time between the two signals was eight seconds, the same time ...
- 13402: Attention Deficit Disorder
- ... years ago? Over the past decade, A.D.D., or rather its diagnosis, has become one of the most rapidly growing disorders among children and adults, not only in the United States but throughout the world. Three to six percent of school age children and half that number of adults in the United States have already been diagnosed with A.D.D. Although the majority have yet to be diagnosed, it ... population in the United States(Merrow). Its most defining symptoms include distractibility, impulsivity, and restlessness(Hallowell). "A.D.D. is a breakdown of the filter systems of the brain," according to Dr. Edward Hallowell, a world-renowned expert on A.D.D. and author of several best-selling books on the subject. A.D.D. is not an indicator of low intelligence, nor is it a learning disability. The A.D ... going out. It is constantly bombarded with stimuli which can't be fully processed--resulting in unpredictable responses. When was A.D.D. first recognized as a neurological disorder? Although Attention Deficit Disorder has gained world-wide recognition in the 1990's, its discovery actually occurred in 1937. Dr. Bradley of Providence, Rhode Island, discovered while treating severely destructive children that by using amphetamines, a stimulant, these children would become ...
- 13403: False Memory Syndrome
- ... good defense. In the end, no one has benefits from encouraging a belief in memory which is doesn't exist. So it does not matter what the child may recall of the memory, because the new version can only bring harm. Carl Jung, an early Freudian believer, added to this theory of the memory by saying that there was an area of repressed memories in the unconscious mind, an area that ... stereotype Model can be traced back to Plato's various beliefs about the eddies, witch are forms of reality that have alto described by Plato but were always held up as 'more real' than the world of sense experience that, in some ways was always inferior to and dependent on the eddies. Why would someone remember something so horrible if it really did not happen? There is a belief in our ...
- 13404: Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis A In the world we live in, there are many diseases which are so deadly to the point where there is no cure for the disease. At one's first thought, most would think of AIDS, herpes, or maybe ... other viral types. Blumberg is a physician and biochemist who discovered the Hepatitis B antigen and who is a corecipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his part in "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." After studying hepatitis worldwide, Blumberg isolated the antigen in the blood of an Australian aborigine. This work paved the way for programs to screen blood donors ...
- 13405: Your Brain
- Your Brain Your brain has two sides. And each has a distinctly different way of looking at the world. Do you realize that in order for you to read this article, the two sides of your brain must do completely different things? The more we integrate those two sides, the more integrated we become ... thin" into the future. Even more startling is evidence coming to light that we have become a left-brain culture. Your brain's right and left side have distinctly different ways of looking at the world. Your two hemispheres are as different from each other as, oh, Micheal Wilson and Shirley Maclean. The left brain controls the right side of the body (this is reversed in about half of the 15 ... relationships. "The left brain is too slow, but the right can see around corners." Dr. Eisenberg thinks that the preoccupation with the plodding left brain is one reason for the analysis paralysis he sees affecting world leaders. "Good leaders don't lead by reading polls," he says. "They have vision and operate to a certain extent by feel." There are ways of correcting out cultural overbalance. Playing video games, for ...
- 13406: Two Brains?
- Two Brains? Your brain has two sides. And each has a distinctly different way of looking at the world. Do you realize that in order for you to read this article, the two sides of your brain must do completely different things? The more we integrate those two sides, the more integrated we become ... thin" into the future. Even more startling is evidence coming to light that we have become a left-brain culture. Your brain's right and left side have distinctly different ways of looking at the world. Your two hemispheres are as different from each other as, oh, Micheal Wilson and Shirley Maclean. The left brain controls the right side of the body (this is reversed in about half of the 15 ... relationships. "The left brain is too slow, but the right can see around corners." Dr. Eisenberg thinks that the preoccupation with the plodding left brain is one reason for the analysis paralysis he sees affecting world leaders. "Good leaders don't lead by reading polls," he says. "They have vision and operate to a certain extent by feel." There are ways of correcting out cultural overbalance. Playing video games, for ...
- 13407: Schizophrenia
- ... unrelated topic to the next. They may make up their own words or use sounds or grunts to substitute words. These symptoms do not mean that people with schizophrenia are out of touch with the world completely, they know that roads are used for driving cars, and that people eat meals three a day. Schizophrenia affect both men and women equally. Along with delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorders, they also suffer ... Ontario Friends of Schizophrenics. (1994). The Facts, Schizophrenia: Compassion Through Understanding, Risk of Suicide b. More than two authors Pamphlet by: Natonal Alliance for the Mentally Ill. (1990). Schizophrenia c. One author Bower, B. (1996). New culprits cited for schizophrenia. Science News, vol. 149, 68. D. More than two authors Pamphlet by: American Psychiatric Association Annual. (1990). Schizophrenia, 1-10 e. More than two authors Pamphlet by:National Institute of Mental ...
- 13408: Bilingual Education In Miami
- ... bilingual education. This city at the crossroads of the Americas is expanding bilingual education under the argument that students will need to speak, read and write in English and Spanish when they reach the business world. The decision to do this almost seems natural for a metropolis where the top-rated television stations broadcast in Spanish, the top-ranked newspaper publishes a separate Spanish daily edition, many top civic leaders speak ... Central America. Americans even have trouble pronouncing names of people from Central America. Sometimes students are forced to change their birth names to fit in. This issue was addressed in the essay Taking in the New Land written by Edite Cunha. The teacher in this essay Mrs. Donahue tells a young Portuguese girl to change her name. She tells her In America you only need two or three names. Mary Edith ...
- 13409: Leukemia
- ... into a Leukemia cell. Different Leukemia's are located in the microscope and by how much protein they contain. These Leukemia's are usually very severe and need treatment right away. The present incidence of new cases per year in the United States is about 25 to every 100,000 persons. The danger to the patient lies in the growth of these abnormal white cells, which interfere with the growth of ... 1943 she died twelve years later in the year of 1955 of Leukemia. She was in Hiroshima when the United States Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on that city in an attempt to end World War II. Sadako Saski was only two years old when all this had happened. Ten years later, Sadako had been diagnosed with Leukemia as a result of the radiation from the bomb. At this time ...
- 13410: No-Calorie Powder May Substitute for Food's Fat
- ... fiber from oat flour that provides four calories per gram. Z-Trim compared to another fat substitute, olestra, is different. Olestra can cause gastrointestinal distress and take vitamins and carotenoids out of the body. The new substitute does not have those affects. Inglett says that you should eat more of the kind of fibers that make up Z-Trim to reduce the chances of getting intestinal disorders. But there are some people who argue with Inglett's theory on his new substitute. "I wouldn't expect Z-Trim to have the same kinds of problems as olestra," says Margo Wootan, a senior scientist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C ... also concern for the "microbial stability" of foods containing Z-Trim. "Whenever you remove the lipid material and replace it with water," says Thomas H. Parliment, a flavor chemist for Kraft Foods in White Plains, New York, "microbes are to grow, and you can get mold." That would have to be worked out before Z-Trim could go on the market, Parliment says. If you want to replace fat in ...
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