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- 3031: The Aging Process
- ... and hearing, and likely to lose some of the physical and mental capacity they once enjoyed? There are no fully satisfactory answers to these questions. Although we are mortal, it is entirely possible that one day humans could live much longer. The present potential life span for humans is said to be 115 years and today thousands of people live to be over 100. United States citizens now expect to live ... unraveled and will offer opportunities in the future that were once considered to be only possible in science fiction. It is hard to improve on the advice given by Seneca (4 B.C. -65 A.D.) to eat moderate amounts of well-balanced foods, get plenty of fresh air, exercise, and live a stress-free life-style. Your life literally depends upon the ability of your cells to regenerate. They do ...
- 3032: Multiple Sclerosis
- ... medication, exercise, rehabilitation, the most important factor in the treatment of this disease is to have a positive attitude, hope for the future, and a desire to live your life as you normally would from day to day. Socially MS can be just as difficult to fight as it is physically. Dating, marriage, children, careers, parents and friends can be difficult barriers emotionally. dating is hard for anyone regardless of sex, age, appearance ... they were diagnosed with lung cancer. I think one of the hardest things about Ms is that you can be healthy or not healthy know one in your family could have it and then one day you show symptoms. Physiologically Yes that would be a difficult thing to deal with. But it is a disease that is striking millions of people and after doing research I believe the positive attitude ...
- 3033: Alzheimers Disease
- ... abnormal brain function and death. The disease was first described in 1907 by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer(1864-1915). In the neurological autopsy on the brain of a 56-year-old woman Auguste D., of Frankfurt, who died after several years of progressive mental deterioration marked by increasing confusion and memory loss. Taking advantage of a then-new staining technique, he noticed an odd disorganization of the nerve cells ... towards this stage. Persons affected may have difficulty naming objects(agnosia), or with maintaining a logical conversation. They may also have difficulty understanding directions or instructions. They often become easily disoriented with regards to what day it is, where they are, and who they are with. Confusion and the resulting frustration are often evident. Memory losses become even more pronounced. They may also begin to experience loss of self-care skills ...
- 3034: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- ... is now fairly common. According to the United States National Institutes of Health, nearly 5,000 people in the U.S. are newly diagnosed with ALS each year. (That's about 13 new cases a day!) It is estimated that as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any given time. And that some 300,000 men and women who are alive and apparently well in the country today ... would be a family history of ALS among blood relatives and also a 50/50 chance of the affected person passing it onto their children. If neither parent or other blood relatives have ALS, you'd expect to have the Sporadic form and, therefore, not expect to pass it onto your children. Presently there is no blood or genetic screening test to detect "the ALS gene" for all familial forms of ...
- 3035: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... that most psychiatrists believe that suicide may be a rational act, and accept passive euthanasia. But, many are not willing to use their skills to exclude mental illness in people who request assisted suicide. Russel D. Ogden and Michael G. Young (1998) article explored the attitudes and experiences concerning voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide held by professionally registered members of the British Columbia Association of Social Workers, using an anonymous postal ... and that as many as 25% of all patients who make such a request have received help from their doctor. The American Hospital Association said that many of the approximately 6,000 hospital deaths per day are planned in some way by their families or physicians. Another source reported that as many as 70% of all deaths in hospitals are preceded by primarily ad hoc decisions to withdraw life support (Markson ...
- 3036: Adrenal Glands
- ... s disease. Treatment of Addison\\'s disease involves replacing, or substituting, the hormones that the adrenal glands are not making. Cortisol is replaced orally with hydrocortisone tablets, a synthetic glucocorticoid, taken once or twice a day. If aldosterone is also deficient, it is replaced with oral doses of a mineralocorticoid, called fludrocortisone acetate (Florinef)), which is taken once a day. Patients receiving aldosterone replacement therapy are usually advised by a doctor to increase their salt intake. Because patients with secondary adrenal insufficiency normally maintain aldosterone production, they do not require aldosterone replacement therapy. The doses ... the amount of hydrocortisone is decreased until a maintenance dose is achieved. If aldosterone is deficient, maintenance therapy also includes doses of fludrocortisone acetate. Long-term prognosis is best achieved by giving lots cortisol every day. In addition, Florinef should be given in a small dosage daily. It is important to notice that mineralocorticoid treatment will be effective only if salt is taken in rapidly. In growing children, it is ...
- 3037: Adrenal Gland
- ... s disease. Treatment of Addison\\'s disease involves replacing, or substituting, the hormones that the adrenal glands are not making. Cortisol is replaced orally with hydrocortisone tablets, a synthetic glucocorticoid, taken once or twice a day. If aldosterone is also deficient, it is replaced with oral doses of a mineralocorticoid, called fludrocortisone acetate (Florinef)), which is taken once a day. Patients receiving aldosterone replacement therapy are usually advised by a doctor to increase their salt intake. Because patients with secondary adrenal insufficiency normally maintain aldosterone production, they do not require aldosterone replacement therapy. The doses ... the amount of hydrocortisone is decreased until a maintenance dose is achieved. If aldosterone is deficient, maintenance therapy also includes doses of fludrocortisone acetate. Long-term prognosis is best achieved by giving lots cortisol every day. In addition, Florinef should be given in a small dosage daily. It is important to notice that mineralocorticoid treatment will be effective only if salt is taken in rapidly. In growing children, it is ...
- 3038: No Representation Of Allocentric Space Has Been Found In The
- ... from the post-subiculum in freely moving rats. I. Description and quantitative analysis. Journal of Neuroscience, 10, 420-35. Tolman, E.C. (1948) Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychology Review, 40, 60-70. Wilkie, D.M. & Palfrey, R. (1987) A computer simulation model of rats' place navigation in the Morris water mave. Behavioural Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 19, 400-3. Zipser, D. (1986) Biologically plausibly models of place recognition and goal location. Parallel distributed processing. Exploration in the microstructure of cognition. Vol. 2. Psychological and biological models (ed. J.L.McClelland, D.E.Rumelhart, and the PDP Research Group), pp.432-70. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
- 3039: New Research Indicates That Drug Therapy Is More
- ... rates of full re-integration into society are low. With further research, improvements on existing drugs and the development of newer ones will further the treatment success rates of many schizophrenic patients. REFERENCES: Advokat, C.D., L.J. Bertman, and J.E Comaty Jr. 1999. Clinical outcome to clozapine treatment in chronic psychiatric inpatients. Prog. Neuro-Psychopharmacol. & Biol. Psychiat, 23:1-14. Caracci, G. 1999. Prolactin levels in premenopausal women treated ... Group. 1999. Improvement of schizophrenia patients with primary negative sympotms treated with amisulpride. Am J. Psychiatry, 156:610-616. Davison G.C. and J.M. Neale. 1999. Abnormal Psychology. USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Robinson, D. G., M.G. Woerner, J.M. Alvir, S. Geisler, A. Koreen, B. Sheitman, M. Chakos, D. Mayerhoff, R. Bilder, R. Goldman, and J.A. Lieberman. 1999. Predictors of treatment response from a first episode of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Am J Psychiatry, 156:544-549. Yasui, N., T. Kondo, K. ...
- 3040: Natural Forces
- ... lived. It was a long trip to undergo, especially being six years old and knowing that my father never stopped the car. By the time we arrived at Fort Myers, it was a beautiful sunny day. The wind was gusting enough to pull my hair back, and I was admiring the palm trees, coconuts, and lizards near the Gulf of Mexico. The first few days were nice, but little did I know that I would soon be caught in the middle of a twister. I can clearly remember being in the car on a humid day with a little overcast. We were driving in the car when all of a sudden the wind started to pick up and it started raining a bit. Within five minutes, the weather progressed and there ... my head in my lap in the back seat of the car. I never witnessed the true power of nature until this incident. There was definitely a lesson to be learned from my experience that day in the car. Not only was I scared to go in the car for a while, but I did not even leave the house for about two days. The thing that really sparked my ...
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