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1381: Issues To Consider In Deaf And Hard-Of-Hearing Patients: ... who lost hearing in adolescence or adulthood have acquired, or adventitious, hearing loss and are often known as "late-deafened." They usually have good speech, lip-reading, reading and writing skills but frequently suffer from depression and social isolation as a result of difficulty with communication.(n3-n8) The elderly are the largest group among the deaf and hard of hearing and have the greatest risk of social isolation. They may ...

1382: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: ... cocaine users with their withdrawal symptoms to the effects it has on infants, meaning newborns. When terminating a period of heavy drug use in adults the symptoms may include decrease physical activity, decreased libido, irritability, depression, and sleepiness. The symptoms of the infants withdrawal may include jitteriness, poor muscle tone, and feeding. With effects of cocaine use on the brain little is known. In summary, negative effects of prenatal cocaine exposure ...

1383: The Effects of Teenage Alcoholism: ... homicide and suicide].[Liquor Ads[ Teen alcohol abuse is associated with a high incidence of injury and death due to motor vehicle accidents, high risk sexual behavior from not using condoms, exposure to HIV, violence, depression and suicide. Alcohol is responsible for sixty-four percent of teenage murders, forty-one percent of assaults and thirty-four percent of rapes. In 1994 more than four thousand driver’s sixteen to twenty-four ...

1384: Alternative Medicine: ... to conventional treatment. The overwhelming majority of alternative medicine consumers have illnesses for which conventional medicine does not offer a cure, such as arthritis, allergies, and viral infections, or they have illnesses such as insomnia, depression, and chronic pain, which are stress related. Although people with these afflictions may or may not benefit from the manipulation of energy fields, herbal concoctions, huge doses of vitamins, or alterations in the flow of ...

1385: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: ... in some infants of drug dependant mothers. These consisted of hyperactivity, temper tantrums, suspected language problems, autism, and excessive thumb sucking (70). Withdrawal symptoms consist of agitation, excessive crying, the inability to sleep, sweating, and depression at birth. All of these symptoms occur within twenty-four hours after birth. These cases are becoming more and more common because FAS is more common. I feel that the only prevention for fetal alcohol ...

1386: Alzheimer's Disease: ... caused by injury, infection, or chemicals in the environment. this is known as dementia, or loss of mental powers. AD causes dementia. At first a person's memory may become impaired and they become forgetful, depression may set in, personality may change, and simple tasks become difficult. The dementia interferes with normal functions. Memory failure was once thought to be a normal process of aging, but studies of the elderly indicate ...

1387: Schizophrenia: ... Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is another example of a widely used therapy with little evidence of it’s usefullness. ECT is breif pulses of electricity that are passed through the brain. Unfortunately it works for severe depression but not schizophrenia. Probably the most outrageous therapy, if you want to call it that, was the frontal lobotomy. The American psychiatrist Soloman H. Snyder has called it "barbaric" and "diabolical" (Anderson 20). A frontal ...

1388: Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite: ... being an unhappy sleeper. Don’t be unhappy because you don’t understand why you can’t sleep. “Many causes of insomnia is advancement of age, being of the female gender and a history of depression” (NIH 4). It is easy to avoid insomnia despite the causes. If you think you are going to have difficulties in sleeping you will. Not only will things in your head, like worrying, disturb your ...

1389: Lillian Hellman: ... audience to dig deep into their own psyches. It is important to note that Hellman had grown up in interesting times. She was a teenager in the Roaring Twenties, and had lived through the Great Depression. To many, the 1930's were a time of despair, but for Hellman, it was time to begin a memorable career. The Children's Hour was written in 1934 and The Little Foxes would come ...

1390: The Ethics of Abortion: ... if she does not want to because it may lead to further complications for the victim and child. By further complications I mean mentally, physically, and emotionally. Many victims often go through long periods of depression when they are forced to keep the child because it often stirs unwanted memories. This is why abortion should be allowed or legal for those unfortunate few who have no other choice but to have ...

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