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- 2051: Pursuing a Career in Psychiatry
- ... of women and five to twelve percent of men in their lifetime. Along with that, twenty-five percent of the population suffers from anxiety disorders and the same percentage suffer from some form of substance abuse. The fact is, however, that these statistics do not even begin to cover the myriad of psychiatric disorders found in the world today. These startling rates bring in the increasing need for psychiatrists. Psychiatrists are ... range in doing a wide variety of things. Psychotherapists engage in mutual working relationship with the patients. In this technique the psychiatrist uses persuasion, understanding, encouragement, and suggestion to help the patients relieve social pain. Child psychiatrists treated disturbed children and youth. They use both psychotherapy, play therapy, and medication. Psychoanalysts use a method of therapy in which the psychoanalyst and the patient try to understand the patients emotional unrest ...
- 2052: Solutions To The Abortion Issue
- ... this procedure done but would not eliminate it all together and if we encourage adoption that would not only help the abortion problem but also help a woman that is not able to physically have child have the child of her dreams. There are many that would like to see abortion to be illegal, but there are issues to deal with like what do we do about the illegally performed abortions that could be ... other things to think about. As a nation we need to think about what can be done to solve this controversial problem. One of the first steps is getting everyone to look at this unborn child as a baby from conception to birth. If we promote adoption instead of abortion and pass laws making it more difficult to have the procedure of abortion done. George W. Bush is the one ...
- 2053: Genetics and Heredity
- ... are BB (25% chance), or pure brown eyes, Bb (50% chance), or a hybrid whose children may have blue eyes, or bb (25% chance), or pure blue eyes. There is a 75% chance that the child will have brown eyes. The same chart may be used for a number of traits, but in higher animals, such as humans, there are variations. For instance if a person who has light brown eyes has a child with a person who has dark brown eyes, the child's eyes are likely to be medium brown. The charts are still valid though, because not all traits are compatible. Recessive genes do not visibly show up when there is a dominant gene present. ...
- 2054: To The Victims Of ADHD
- ... treatments advocated for children with ADHD have not been proven effective. Others have been proven ineffective or are completely inconsistent with current knowledge about ADHD. Parents should be wary of investing time, money and their child's interests in unproven, questionable treatments, such as EEG Biofeedback. An EEG Biofeedback is the controversial therapy of the moment. Proponents of biofeedback believe that children with ADHD can be trained to increase the type of brain-wave activity associated with sustained attention. Up to 20 electrodes are attached to the child's head. Levels of electrical activity in various parts of the brain are measured and entered into a computer. The computer provides a signal, such as a light or tone. This "feedback" is supposed to teach the child to increase certain kinds of brain-wave activity and decrease other types. Training usually involves 40-80 sessions, each lasting 40 minutes or more. This "treatment" costs $3,000 to $6,000. The studies ...
- 2055: Cigarettes
- ... How can anyone suggest to the American public that cocaine and nicotine are equally dangerous, damaging and addictive? While they are both allegedly addictive that is where the similarity ends, because the effects of cocaine abuse are rapid and more damaging to more body systems that anything that nicotine could ever produce. Further, if cocaine is illegal and then tobacco is illegal then you might as well make alcohol illegal again too. In fact alcohol abuse is much more similar to cocaine abuse in that it affects major body systems rather quickly and can produce mental illnesses, hallucinations, etc. As Colby said, "If nicotine is addictive, so are chocolate candies, pies and cakes, etc." So, many things ...
- 2056: Cystic Fibrosis
- Cystic Fibrosis Woe to that child which when kissed on the forehead tastes salty, for he is bewitched and soon must die. Northern European folklore, though a salty brow was the least of that childs worries that at the time was the way people found out that their child was going to die. How horrible this disease was, it slapped life in the face and left a salty after taste in your mouth to boot. This deadly autosomal disease which affects the lungs, ...
- 2057: Euthanasia
- Euthanasia An eighty-seven year old grandmother on a respirator, a newborn child with AIDS, and a father in a coma, all put to death by doctors with the O.K. of their families. But is it really O.K.? Euthanasia, or doctor assisted suicide, has become as ... that the state laws that made assisting in suicide a criminal offense were unconstitutional. What most people find troubling is how to define whom is terminally ill and how this process can be open to abuse. The definition of a terminal illness includes anyone who is reliant on treatment to continue living. Regardless, of how routine the treatment maybe, the person is expected to die within a year a month or ...
- 2058: Life And Times Of Louis Xiv
- ... adult. His latest biographer insists that Anne's rearing of this boy was probably responsible for his homosexual tenancies." (Wolf 3-4). The treatment of being second rate to Louis given to Philip as a child and an adult left his life meaningless and miserable. For this Louis took advantage of Philip to assume total control of the family. Along with being raised by his mother, Anne of Austria, Louis XIV ... who, unfortunately for her peace of mind, fell in love with her husband on their wedding night and remained deeply in love with him until the end of her life." (Panicucci 48). Louis had one child with Maria. Louis never loved Maria and made no effort to hide his mistresses and his illegitimate children from her. "Louis did however fall in love with Louise de la Valliere. La Valliere fell deeply ... s children more than his own. The king, in fact, sought to explain to his son how he came to decide the title of duchess for his mistress, Louise de la Valliere, and legitimize their child, Mlle de Blois. (Bluche 265). Throughout The Man in the Iron Mask, it depicts the love of Louis and La Valliere. With Louis's third mistress, Louis was not only satisfied with one mistress ...
- 2059: English Shakespeare
- ... queen, but not on Polixenes who is too far away. We also learn Prince Mamillius has fallen sick over depression for losing his mother. Paulina arrives and presents Leontes' daughter to him. Leontes denies the child, but Paulina yells at him and insists it is his baby and not Polixenes'. Yet, he still yells at her and then accuses Antigonus of setting his wife up to her outbursts. Leontes then orders Antigonus to burn and kill the baby he calls a bastard. The lords convince him to let the baby live, but Leontes then orders Antigonus to abandon the child in a desert place and let it fiend for itself. Cleomenes and Dion return from the oracle with an unknown scroll fro it. In a court of justice, Leontes acts as judge and juror over ... mauled and killed by the bear, though he told the clown his name before he died. With the babe, the shepherd finds a pot of gold, prompting great rejoicing and a vow to raise the child. Time appears and announces 16 years has passed. He tells us Leontes has shut himself up, while his unknown daughter Perdita has grown and is being courted by Polixenes' son Florizel. At the Bohemian ...
- 2060: Bipolar Disorder
- ... Another problem associated with the use of lithium is experienced by pregnant women. Its use during pregnancy has been associated with birth defects, particularly Ebstein's anomaly. Based on current data, the risk of a child with Ebstein's anomaly being born to a mother who took lithium during her first trimester of pregnancy is approximately 1 in 8,000, or 2.5 times that of the general population (Jacobson et ... of these medications can be used in combination with lithium or in combination with each other. Valproate is especially helpful for patients who are lithium noncompliant, experience rapid-cycling, or have comorbid alcohol or drug abuse. Neuroleptics such as haloperidol or chlorpromazine have also been used to help stabilize manic patients who are highly agitated or psychotic. Use of these drugs is often necessary because the response to them are rapid ...
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