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Narcolepsy
Number of Words: 1027 / Number of Pages: 4
... Disrupted Nighttime Sleep, Sleep Paralysis, Hypnagogic Hallucinations, and Automatic Behavior . However, only 20 to 25 percent of patients suffer the complete range of symptoms.
EDS is usually the first symptom to be noted. It is sometimes expressed as sleepiness, tiredness, lack of energy, sleep attacks, or an unusual susceptibility to becoming sleepy or falling asleep. In general, the development of EDS is a slow process and requires several years to become an obvious problem. Although this pathological sleepiness is present every day, the intensity varies throughout each day. The afflicted indi ...
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Alzheimers Disease
Number of Words: 583 / Number of Pages: 3
... adults (although people in their 40s and 5Os may also be
affected) and include loss of language skills such as trouble finding words,
problems with abstract thinking, poor or decreased judgment, disorientation in
place and time, changes in mood or behavior and changes in personality. The
overall result is a noticeable decline in personal activities or work
performance.
Who is affected by Alzheimers Disease? Alzheimers Disease knows no
social or economic boundaries and affects men and women almost equally. The
disease strikes older persons more frequently, affecting approximately 10% of
Americans o ...
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The Ethics Of Euthanasia
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... however, occurs
secretly in all societies, including those in which it is held to be
immoral and illegal.
Organizations supporting the legalization of voluntary euthanasia
were established in Great Britain in 1935 and in the United States in 1938.
They have gained some public support, but so far they have been unable to
achieve their goal in either nation. In the last few decades, Western laws
against passive and voluntary euthanasia have slowly been eased, although
serious moral and legal questions still exist.
Critics point to the so-called euthanasia committees in Nazi
Germ ...
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Creatine Supplements And Athletes
Number of Words: 1171 / Number of Pages: 5
... performance.
Creatine is derived from the amino acids arginine, glycine and methionine. It can be produced in your liver, pancreas and kidneys or can be obtained from a diet rich in meat or fish (2.2 pounds of meat contains approximately 5 grams of creatine). Ingesting creatine increase the amounts of free creatine and phosphocreatine (PCr) in the muscle. The energy to rephosphoryate adenosine diphosphate (ADP) to adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is largely determined by the PCr in the muscle. During brief-explosive type exercises, our bodies use adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to provide immediate re ...
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Males In The Nursing Profession
Number of Words: 1628 / Number of Pages: 6
... the masculine gender does have a sensitive side. For example,
many men like nursing because of the satisfaction that comes from helping
others or from saving a life. I can relate to some of the male nurses views.
I find extreme pleasure from helping others and it is good to know that I
am going to be in a profession where I can help others daily.
Another reason males choose nursing relates to job security and
salary. For many men, nursing just isn't a job, it is recognized as a
career. " The nearly $40,000 a year that the average nurse takes home is
attractive to many men,"(T. Squires, 1995). This ...
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The Case For Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide Be Legalized?
Number of Words: 1542 / Number of Pages: 6
... In the hopes of clarification, we must first distinguish between
active and passive euthanasia. Passive euthanasia involves the patient's
refusal of medical assistance. It involves the right to die which is
protected by the United States Constitution clauses of due process liberty
and the right to privacy (Fourteenth Amendment). The right to doctor-
assisted suicide, or active euthanasia, consists of, "...a patient's right
to authorize a physician to perform an act that intentionally results in
the patient's death, without the physician's being held civilly or
criminally liable for having caused t ...
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Borderline Personality Disorder
Number of Words: 946 / Number of Pages: 4
... sexual promiscuity, and substance abuse. However,
those with Borderline Personality Disorder(B.P.D.) must also have these
symptoms:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment.
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating between
extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats,
or self-mutilating behavior.
4. Affective instability: marked shifts from baseline
mood to depression, irritability, or anxiety, usually
lasting a few hours and only rarely more tha ...
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Assisted Suicide
Number of Words: 2366 / Number of Pages: 9
... people are taking their own lives for many different reasons. A lot
of philosophers have broken down all the reasons of suicides into two
different categories, rational suicide and irrational suicide. A rational
suicide has been given five basic criteria that usually must be met for the
person's act to be considered rational. The five criteria which a person
must show for their suicide to be considered rational are, "the ability to
reason, realistic world view, adequacy of information, avoidance of harm,
and accordance with fundamental interests."(Battin 132) Another opinion of
rationality o ...
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Hypnosis
Number of Words: 1459 / Number of Pages: 6
... created. They can be commanded to experience visual or auditory
hallucinations or live the past as if it were the present. Also, recently a
scientist discovered that the way the subject's mind experiences time can be
altered so that hours or even weeks can pass in second, from the subjects point
of view. Subjects may forget part or all of the hypnotic experience or recall
things that they had forgotten. The hypnotist may also make "posthypnotic
suggestions" that are instructions to the subject to respond to a something
after awakening. For example, the hypnotist might suggest that, after the
subject ...
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Alcoholism
Number of Words: 914 / Number of Pages: 4
... that a person is not always an alcoholic by choice. Predestined has been haunting society for years but it is only recently being dealt with.
It is my belief however, that is indeed heredity. The evidence that is provided is simply too substantial to ignore. Family history of shows that throughout the generations there has been a steady pattern of alcoholics within families. With the new found information on dopamine and the possibilities that is has, society can no longer write off alcoholics as social misfits that make the choice to drink. It is tragic to think that a person's destiny in lif ...
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