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- 3761: Forensic Psychology
- ... 12 1998). Forensic psychologists also work in state mental hospitals. Here they routinely evaluate the mental states of defendants on trial who are claiming to or are suspected of having a mental disorder which would effect their trial. If the defendant is found "IST", incompetent to stand trial, they are sent back to the hospital for psychological treatment. ("Ultimate") In the hospital, other forensic psychologists are to provide therapy for the ...
- 3762: Fiberoptics
- ... Charles Vernon Boys was developing a way to make long, thin fibers of glass for use in communications systems during World War I. He did not devise a practical way to put his fibers into effect. In 1934, Norman R. French, of AT&T, patented an "optical telephone system" that could carry voice signals on beams of light through a network of "light cables." (IFO 3). His system also proved to ...
- 3763: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome And Fetal Alcohol Effects
- ... profound, pervasive, and persistent nature of the biopsychosocial manifestations of these disorders. Cognitively those affected maintained subnormal intellectual functioning; demonstrated specific arithmetic deficiency; had extreme difficulty with abstractions such as time and space, cause and effect; and could not generalize from one situation to another. They also demonstrated inattention, poor concentration, memory deficit, impaired judgment, and impaired comprehensive and abstract reasoning. Behavioral problems such as hyperactivity and impulsivity as well as ...
- 3764: Fasle Memory
- ... some reports of incest and sexual abuse are surely true, these decade delayed memories are too often the result of False Memory Syndrome caused by a disastrous "therapeutic" program. False Memory Syndrome has a devastating effect on the victim and typically produces a continuing dependency on the very program that creates the syndrome. False Memory Syndrome proceeds to destroy the psychological well being not only of the primary victim but through ...
- 3765: Eye
- ... eyes are about 2 1/2 inches apart from pupil to pupil and therefore are looking at the object from different angles, the 2 views are not exactly alike. This is known as the stereoscopic effect. If the object is far away, the difference between the images is slight. If it is a few inches away, the difference is very great. The brain makes good use of the phenomenon. It learns ...
- 3766: Excessive Alcohol Consumption--its Effects And Social Accept
- ... ninety-five percent alcohol (Fettner 275-276). Although studies show that alcohol consumed in small amounts can actually help the body remain healthy by stimulating cell functions, heavy or chronic use produces an opposite, suppressive effect on cell production (Wolfgan 3-4). Excessive usage can cause damage to many areas of the body, including the liver, the heart, and the brain. The liver is the primary target because it deals directly ...
- 3767: 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 ...
- 3768: Environmental And Genetic Affects And Schizophrenia
- ... unrecognised infection by a virus or other agent might trigger at least some cases of schizophrenia" (Beardsley, 1997, p.1). Support for this has long been noted by physicians - that antipsychotic drugs have an antimicrobial effect on recognised viral infections. Furthermmore, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have discovered that some metabolites (breakdown products) of the anitpsychotic drug clozapine stop the replication of HIV in human cell cultures (Volkers ...
- 3769: Endosymbiosis
- ... eyes are about 2 1/2 inches apart from pupil to pupil and therefore are looking at the object from different angles, the 2 views are not exactly alike. This is known as the stereoscopic effect. If the object is far away, the difference between the images is slight. If it is a few inches away, the difference is very great. The brain makes good use of the phenomenon. It learns ...
- 3770: Encephalitis
- ... be ready to work as soon as the Passive immunization ran out. Basically with Encephalitis there are many different forms of viruses that each have there own vaccines or protection. No matter what the side effect the vaccine or other protection gave me I would have to take it because there are really no other alternatives. I would rather experience nausea, headache and fever from a vaccine, then contracting a disease ...
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