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- 2851: Memory
- ... nine-digit phone number long enough to dial it (Baddeley, 1993). The examination of human behavior reveals that current activities are inescapably linked by memories. General competent (1993) behavior requires that certain past events have effect on the influences in the present. For example, touching a hot stove would cause a burn and therefore memory would convey a message to not repeat again. All of this is effected by the development ...
- 2852: Alcoholism
- ... rate; drinking when the stomach is filled is less intoxicating, because foods delay alcohol absorption rate. Studies indicate that sex is a factor. Excessive drinking that may range from five to thirty years has an effect on the organ systems. The parts of the body most affected by heavy drinking are the digestive and nervous systems. Digestive system disorders that may be related to heavy drinking include cancer of the mouth ...
- 2853: Spontaneous and Induced Abortions
- ... passing of liberalized legislation in several states in the United States during the 1960s. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade (1973) that unduly restrictive state regulation of abortion was unconstitutional, in effect legalizing abortion on demand for women in the first three months of pregnancy. A countermovement for the restoration of strict control over the circumstances under which abortions might be permitted soon sprang up, and the ...
- 2854: To The Victims Of ADHD
- ... The studies which suggest impressive results for EEG Biofeedback are seriously flawed. Sample sizes were small and appropriate control groups were not used to determine if any results are due to maturation or an "expectancy" effect. Did you know that a large number of studies have examined the link between sugar and hyperactive behavior. A few of these studies have found some small effects of sugar on behavior though only a ...
- 2855: Depression
- ... in five to ten minutes. Most people require six to ten treatments. The seizure may affect levels of neurotransmitters in the brain. Experts aren't certain how this therapy relieves symptoms. The most common side effect is confusion, lasting from several minutes to hours. In a few patients there is some memory loss for several weeks. This therapy is usually used for people who have not responded to medications and for ...
- 2856: Down Syndrome
- ... The last 1% have Mosaicism, where only some cells of the chromosome have extra genetic material. With the different types of Down's the degree of retardation ranges from mild to sever. Alleles don't effect every patient in the same way, and therefore different effects of the disease are presented in each case. Patients with Down's Syndrome can lead almost normal lives and be just as healthy as other ...
- 2857: The Plague in 1347
- ... large and but few in number, in others smaller and more numerous both sorts the usual messengers of death. The cure of this plague, neither medical knowledge nor the power of drugs was of any effect; whether because the disease was in its own nature mortal or that the physicians could form no just idea of the cause. While this was occurring, people began to reflect on their life, they're ...
- 2858: Schizophrenia
- ... loss of appetite, menstrual changes in woman, and on the more serious side, liver damage, damage to blood forming organs, convulsions, abnormal heart functions, or unexplained fever could occur (Torrey, 1983). The most feared side effect is a disease called tardive dyskinesia. Tardive dyskinesia occurs mostly with patients who have been taking anti-psychotics for a prolonged period of time over many years. Its symptoms include involuntary movements of the tongue ...
- 2859: Euthanasia
- ... against the benevolence of active euthanasia, Gay-Williams cites as a slippery slope giving others the authorization to decide on behalf of a patient, especially members of the medical community. Euthanasia may have a corrupting effect, Gay-Williams indicates; doctors may not try as hard to save a critically ill person, and this may transfer over to their treatment of less-ill patients. But it is not clear how it is ...
- 2860: Suicide
- ... s own definition. For whatever reasons one decides to commit suicide, it is to end their own pain and for themselves. Like the boy from my high school, the individual does not think about the effect they will have on all the people that are a part of their environment. The boy's parents and siblings will suffer for the rest of their lives wondering what they could have done to ...
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