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- 6511: Psychology: Dreams and Dreaming
- ... in addition, it evokes related unconscious memories and images, creating an emotionally powerful mix. The feeling of utter helplessness that so often infuses a nightmare probably harks back to infancy, some experts say, when a child is indeed powerless and at the mercy of a world he or she cannot understand or control. ( Time-Life Books p. 102). According to Professor Hartmann, the common thread among those who have nightmares frequently ...
- 6512: AIDS
- ... of the patients were professional criminals and New York City, which is relatively close, offered them a suitable milieu. Moreover, the patients were exclusively men, many of them having a history of homosexuality and drug abuse, as is often the case in American prisons. It is understandable why AIDS broke out precisely in 1979, precisely among men and among drug users, and precisely in New York City," assert the Segals. They ...
- 6513: Be Healthy and Drug Free
- ... have been passed prohibiting the use of unhealthy drugs. In addition to this, the D.A.R.E. program was started. This class is offered in many schools. It is a program talking about drug abuse resistance. According to a recent survey, one in every three people between the ages of twelve and twenty have used drugs at least once. As you can see, drugs are very dangerous substances. It is ...
- 6514: Alcohol
- ... behavioral disorders. Children with FAS and FAE are often described as hyperactive, disstactible, or impulsive. they often have short attention spans similar to attention deficit dirorder, but with lower IQ's particularly in the FAS child. In addition to attention deficits, problems with judgement, comprehension, and abstract think are common. Some new research says that kids with FAS and FAE are more vulerable to alcohol exposure. Another thing is newborns exposed ...
- 6515: Alcoholism
- ... contrast to withdrawal from narcotic drugs such as heroin, which, although distressful, rarely results in death. Recent evidence has shown that heavyand even moderatedrinking during pregnancy can cause serious damage to the unborn child: physical or mental retardation or both; a rare but severeexpression of this damage is known as fetal alcohol syndrome. Treatment Treatment of the illness increasingly recognizes alcoholism itself as the primary problem needing attention, rather ...
- 6516: The Genetics of Violence
- ... natural affinity for violence and crime; yet, new genetic studies are beginning down a long road of finding the hereditary basis for impulsivity. While these studies continue to search for the genetic source of aggression, child testing programs, drug manufacturers, civil rights activists, lawyers, and anxious citizens await the resulting testimony of the scientists. The social implications of the genetic search for aggressive tendency is seen by some as a great ...
- 6517: Steroids and Their Affects On The Human Body
- ... females their feminine characteristics. The woman may bald, grow excess bodily hair, including a moustache, they lose the gentle curves of their body, their skin roughens, weight is gained, and the voice deepens. An unborn child is also endangered, female's unborn babies will develop such male traits as extra hair, and all unborn children, according to a few doctors, are subject to be handicapped and deformed. Men also are endangered ...
- 6518: Prader-Willi Syndrome
- ... stuff in their mouths. "The ingenuity and determination of PWS children in surreptitiously obtaining edibles is almost legendary and belies their cognitive defects. Serial weighing may be the only way to discover whether such a child is, in fact, stealing food"(Finey,1983). PWS occurs in about l in 10,000 births. It occurs in both males and females equally and is found in people of all races and all nations ...
- 6519: Memory
- ... effected by the development of short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM). Memories can be positive, like memories of girlfriends and special events, or they can be negative, such as suppressed memories. Sexual abuse of children and adolescents is known to cause severe psychological and emotional damage. Adults who were sexually abused in childhood are at a higher risk for developing a variety of psychiatric disorders, anxiety disorders, personality ...
- 6520: The Human Genome Project
- ... should tap into the DNA of a zygote or egg for testing and absolute knowledge of the steps of the procedure must be present. I do not believe that there should be a genetically advanced child in the world, everyone is created equal and nobody should have their destiny changed for any reason.
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