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- 741: Dreams
- ... dreams parallel waking cognitive development. Many researchers believe that knowledge about dreaming is important for understanding waking imagination. Current and future research issues involve further establishing and extending all of the above areas. Anthropologists are studying cross-culture similarities and differences in dreams. Research into NIGHTMARES and bizarre dreams continues. In addition, REM research is important for understanding psychobiological abnormalities. Some findings indicate that epileptic seizures are suppressed during REM sleep ...
- 742: Diphtheria (Corynebacterium diphtheriae)
- ... developed. The study of Corynebacterium diphtheriae traces closely the development of medical microbiology, immunology and molecular biology. Many contributions to these fields, as well as to our understanding of host-bacterial interactions, have been made studying diphtheria and the diphtheria toxin. Hippocrates provided the first clinical description of diphtheria in the 4th century B.C. There are also references to the disease in ancient Syria and Egypt. In the 17th century ...
- 743: Anger Management And Health
- ... a day for two to three weeks to get useful results. (4) Redford Williams, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and co-author of Anger Kills, has spent more than 20 years studying the impact of the mind and emotions on health. Dr. Williams believes that when normal people are faced with everyday anger, annoyance, irritation, and frustration-and their immediate impulse is to commonly blame somebody or ...
- 744: The History of Birth Control
- ... fourth century A.D. Queen Anne's Lace, or Wild Carrot, is also highly effective, and was used as long ago as 2,000 years as an oral contraceptive. In the late 1980s scientists began studying Queen Anne's Lace and found that (in mice at least) it blocked the production of progesterone and inhibited fetal and ovarian growth. It continues to be used to this day as a sort of ...
- 745: The History of Medicine
- ... studies of the nervous systems to cellular democracy. Things came about that most people don't even think about because they are so common. Many new sciences came about such as anthropology, the science simply studying the human being itself. Since then, medicine has taken great leaps and bounds forward day by day. Medical advances occurred throughout history and will continue to occur in the future. One by one, we put ...
- 746: The History of Medicine
- ... studies of the nervous systems to cellular democracy. Things came about that most people don't even think about because they are so common. Many new sciences came about such as anthropology, the science simply studying the human being itself. Since then, medicine has taken great leaps and bounds forward day by day. Medical advances occurred throughout history and will continue to occur in the future. One by one, we put ...
- 747: Hepatitis A
- ... the Hepatitis B antigen and who is a corecipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his part in "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." After studying hepatitis worldwide, Blumberg isolated the antigen in the blood of an Australian aborigine. This work paved the way for programs to screen blood donors as well as later work on hepatitis B vaccines. A plasma ...
- 748: The Genetics of Violence
- ... family, tracing back to 1870, had the same type of disorder. It became evident that there was something wrong in the lineage of the family. Hans Brunner, a geneticist at the University Hospital, has been studying the family since 1988. It was discovered that the men had a defect on the X chromosome that helps regulate aggressive behavior. Brunner was cued to the fact that the defect was on the X ...
- 749: Mononucleosis
- ... occurs uncommonly. Death has followed encephalitis. While having mono, the heart is rarely affected. During the illness antibodies develop. One way to detect this is by the Paul Bunnell test. The diagnosis is made by studying the blood. A sample of the serum (clear liquid) of the patient's blood is mixed with sheep's blood. If the patient has the disease, the sheep's blood cells will stick together. There ...
- 750: Femoral Hernia
- ... pressure to this region, as occurs in heavy lifting or coughing, can cause the intestine to be forced through the weakened opening. Diagnosis of a hernia is usually done by a visual examination and by studying the patients medical history. Sometimes the hernia will be pinched, or strangulated, resulting in pain and nausea. Other times it may hardly be noticeable. Treatment usually involves manually manipulating the protruding portion of the intestine ...
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