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- 2381: What Effect Does Aging Have On Memory?
- ... investigations into the effects of ageing on LTM focus on either the process of encoding or retrieval, or both. A general finding is that if initial performance levels are equated across age groups, subsequent forgetting rates are essentially equivalent across the adult age range (Craik et al., 1995). This fact supports the focus of studies on these two processes. An age-related deficit in encoding implies that older people encode words ...
- 2382: Condoms In Schools Do Not Solve Teen Problems
- ... of HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unintended pregnancy, yet these problems have increased.]2 Adolescents and young adults have been especially hit hard. In addition, [among all sexually active people, teenagers have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases of any age group.]2 Faced with the magnitude of these problems, our nation through its educational institutions has responded during different eras with prevention programs. For instance, in the early ...
- 2383: Skin Cancer: The Dangers of Wanting a Dark Tan
- ... of Melanoma, or skin cancer, in the United States today. The startling fact is that it is growing at a rate of 4.3% a year. It is one of the fastest increases in occurrence rates of all cancers. The danger in Melanoma is that it starts with something as simple as a mole or growth and can spread to other places on the skin, lymph nodes, lungs, liver, brain, or ...
- 2384: Bipolar Affective Disorder
- ... or irritable mood, hyperactivity, pressure of speech, flight of ideas, inflated self esteem, decreased need for sleep, distractibility, and excessive involvement in reckless activities (Hollandsworth, Jr. 1990 ). Rarest symptoms were periods of loss of all interest and retardation or agitation (Weisman, 1991). As the National Depressive and Manic Depressive Association (NDMDA) has demonstrated, bipolar disorder can create substantial developmental delays, marital and family disruptions, occupational setbacks, and financial disasters. This devastating ...
- 2385: People Vs. the Tobacco Industry
- ... service displays are now prohibited. The government has also increased the tax on cigarettes in efforts to dishearten people from buying cigarettes, thinking people will not buy as many if cigarettes are more expensive. The interest from taxes would also help pay for smokers medical care. In addition, the government has also passed the Smoke-Free Environment Act, which protects non-smokers from reluctant exposure to cigarette smoke. There are many ...
- 2386: Exotic Diseases And The Treat To Humanity
- ... of an epidemic. Some countries do have the money, but greedily and foolishly wont spend it on preventing an epidemic. Some new strands of bacteria were emerging in the late 1980s and their rates of emergence increase every year. These emergencies were adding approximately $200 million to medical bills a year, due to the need of using an increased number of exotic expenses. Antibiotics and increase in patient hospitalization ...
- 2387: Why Exercise is Important
- ... after they had finished, their total LDL (bad) cholesterol had lowered, while levels of HDL (good) cholesterol increased. Its a great study and offered some great medical results considering the fact that high cholesterol rates is one of the primary sources for heart attacks.* But the buck doesnt stop their: You need to get on the cycle at least every other day, recommends Crouse. The cholesterol-related benefits seem ...
- 2388: Rural Healthcare
- ... through dangerous, winding, mountainous roads, which can be impassable in winter or when it rains can hinder people receiving medical services. Winstead-Fry, Tiffany, and Shippee-Rice (1992) stated that low incomes and high poverty rates are suffered by great amounts of the rural population, making health care insurance a relative luxury. Because of this, many ailments and injuries tend to go untreated. Another problem is the lack of physicians willing ...
- 2389: Schizophrenia
- ... might think they are Jesus, Napoleon, or Franklin D. Roosevelt (American Psychiatric Association Annual >90 page). Pregnant women who experience an immune reaction that presents danger to their unborn children, this reaction raises sharply the rates of schizophrenia in the unborn child. Severe malnutrition in the early months of the fetal development may contribute to schizophrenia. It is also known that schizophrenia runs in families. The probability of developing schizophrenia as ...
- 2390: What Causes Infectious Diseases to Strike?
- ... Cameroon outbreak was caused by a chimpanzee that wandered into a village. The chimp, a carrier of Ebola, was probably forced from his diminishing habitat. Ghana and Nigeria, also among the countries with the highest rates of deforestation have been subject to terrible outbreaks. Recently, man has torn through nature like never before. Pesticides, neglect, pollution, and deforestation all destroy the beauty that surrounds us. Diseases like Ebola, Marburg, and Reston ...
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