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- 2501: Psychoanalysis
- ... as a numbness or paralysis of a limb or a loss of voice or a blindness--could be caused by unconscious wishes or forgotten memories. (Hysteria is now commonly referred to as conversion disorder.) The French neurologist Jean Martin CHARCOT tried to rid the mind of undesirable thoughts through hypnotic suggestion, but without lasting success. Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician, achieved better results by letting Anna O., a young woman patient ...
- 2502: Anabolic Steroids
- ... Since ancient history, many athletes have resorted to performance enhancing aids to give them an edge on their opponents. Greek Olympians used strychnine and hallucinogenic mushrooms to psych up for an event. "In 1886 a French cyclist was the first athlete to die from using a performance enhancer, called speedballs, a mixture of cocaine and heroin. In the 1920's, physicians inserted slices of monkey testicles into male athletes to help ...
- 2503: An American Crisis: Gulf War Syndrome
- ... support the veterans claim that they were exposed to chemical warfare. The documents reported that chemical agents were detected and that some chemical weapons were left on the battlefield. Also our allies, the Czech and French forces detected chemical agents with their detection devices in Northern Saudi Arabia during the beginning of the Gulf War, but US commanders ordered that any warning coming from the Czechs were to be ignored. When ...
- 2504: Safe Sex vs. Unsafe Sex
- Safe Sex vs. Unsafe Sex The "sexual revolution" of the 1960's has been stopped dead in its tracks by the AIDS epidemic. The danger of contracting AIDS is so real now that it has massively affected the behavior of both gay and ...
- 2505: The Dawn of a New Age: PCP
- ... a few Freudian psychologists carried out unauthorized experiments in which perfectly healthy patients were given PCP and observed (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). Although their research did not provide much useful data, it did begin a revolution in our knowledge of the chemical basis for schizophrenia (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). In 1987, the FDA removed Sernyl (phencyclidine's market name) from the human market and reserved it for use only as an ...
- 2506: Emily Dickinson
- ... with separation. Emily did not conform to society. She did not believe it was society's place to dictate to her how she should lead her life. Her poems reflect this sense of rebellion and revolution against tradition. From all the jails the boys and girls Ecstatically leap,- Beloved, only afternoon That prison doesn't keep. In this poem Emily shows her feelings towards formalized schooling. Being a product of reputable ...
- 2507: Nutrition in Mountain Biking
- ... dietary fibers, and other carbohydrates. Cyclists who have sugar rushes should avoid cereals that have sugar listed as one of the three ingredients (Walsh 82). Even the fattest flakes are skinny compared to sausage or French toast. Most cereals contain less than 2 grams of fat per serving. Pudgy cereals would be those with more than three grams of fat per serving these generally include granola, and flaked cereal with nuts ...
- 2508: Huntington's Disease
- ... thereby preventing the disease to progress any further. In other Huntington-related research, scientists have found where huntingtin protein is localized in nerve cells, a step closer to discovering its contribution toward Huntington's. A French team reported that they have developed an antibody that attaches itself to the defective protein in Huntington's and four other inherited diseases. This finding may lead to identifying the defects in a variety of ...
- 2509: How has AIDS affected our Society?
- ... and North America before the early 1970s. However in the early 1980s, "deaths by opportunistic infections, previously observed mainly in tissue-transplant recipients receiving immunosuppressive therapy", were recognized in otherwise healthy homosexual men. In 1983 French oncologist Luc Montagnier and scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human retrovirus from the lymph node of a man at risk for having AIDS. At the same ...
- 2510: HIV
- ... the virus through oral sex performed on a female. It has been said that the virus can not be transmitted trough kissing but experts can not rule out this possibility. Some have said that prolonged "French" kissing, open mouth with the switching of saliva, could possibly transmit the virus. There has been no evidence that casual contact has or ever will transmit the disease. This is were many social problems come ...
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