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A Better Idea Of Attention Deficit Disorder
Number of Words: 1458 / Number of Pages: 6
... 20). Another theory of what causes ADD is the low
amount of glucose metabolism in the brain. ADD affects two important parts
of the brain that are connected with the ability to pay attention and the
ability to regulate motor activity (Phelan 46). Many people believe that
bad parenting, physical brain damage, diet, and allergies cause ADD. Thomas
Phelan argues that these things indeed do not cause ADD. People also
believe that ADD can be hereditary. Better than one third of the parents of
an ADD child had ADD when they were children (Phelan 43-44; 47).
Patients usually have to take several te ...
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Abortion And The Mentally Handicapped
Number of Words: 1004 / Number of Pages: 4
... has come to the conclusion that you are not capable of being a
responsible parent, but you are, at times, capable of making rational moral
decisions. However, because you are not able to make important, rational, moral
decisions most of the time your mother can claim that you are not mentally
capable of raising a child. Also. We took in to account that the father of this
unborn child is unknown. There is no one to help you make this decision, but
more importantly, there is not another parental figure to aid in the raising and
caring for this child. From testimonies from your mother and your psychi ...
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What Is Abortion?
Number of Words: 396 / Number of Pages: 2
... birth; however, a fetus can be viable and live outside its mother's
womb quite some time before its natural birth otherwise would occur. Is that
the point at which abortion is inappropriate and, thus, illegal as well as
immoral? While there are those who would answer in the affirmative, many would
argue that a life entitled to protection began at the time of concep tion, the
entry of a sperm cell into the egg.
In any event, abortion must be viewed as an issue with many angles. If a
person is pro-life, is he or she opposed to abortion altogether, is there a
period early in the pregnancy that th ...
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Life Or Death: Who Chooses?
Number of Words: 4437 / Number of Pages: 17
... that from the moment of conception,
a new human life has been created.
Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their
knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of
science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human
being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that
make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and
yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of the great human family. All the
fetus needs to grow into a babe, a child, an old man, is time, nutrition
and a suitable environment. It ...
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Depression
Number of Words: 2097 / Number of Pages: 8
... years. During that time large numbers of asylums for the mentally ill were established, and the search was on to understand and treat mental illnesses (Macpherson 368).
Through the 1900’s the treatment of was developed with electroconvulsive therapy, antidepressant drugs, and different psychological support therapies. Electroconvulsive therapy was introduced in about 1937 and was the first effective treatment for . Electroconvulsive therapy is very effective and is still used today, but because of its harmful side effects it is only used for a patient who is seriously depressed and is potentially ...
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Steroids
Number of Words: 695 / Number of Pages: 3
... In women they will be
basically taking the hormone they lack to be a man, so their voice deepens,
body hair develops. They start to look more like a man.
Some studies show that the only reason why athletes use steroids is
to help stay injury free, to heal, to make themselves look better and to
help in their sports.
The amount of testosterone that the body makes is very small
amounts. Males have twenty to sixty times the testosterone than females.
Large amounts of testosterone are needed three times during a man’s life,
when still in the embryo, because his male features are forming. ...
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No One Can Prepare Themselves For A Sudden Death
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... to life” again. Children ages
five and under may be filled with questions about what death is, how it
happens, and why it happens. These questions are part of a young child's
grieving process.
The questions of whether a young child should be allowed to attend
the funeral and what he should or shouldn't see- has seen much debate.
Generally attending funeral is okay. However a child under seven should not
see the deceased. Instead of providing closure this will often traumatize
a child resulting in nigh mares and unresolved fears. There is no way to
put a length limit on the grieving process. If a chi ...
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Culture From Cranium
Number of Words: 1704 / Number of Pages: 7
... was a unique
religious communist society in the mid-nineteenth century. The community
was based on the radical religious beliefs, and biblical interpretations of
John Humphrey Noyes.
Noyes grew up in a well to do household in Vermont. He Graduated
from Dartmouth College in 1830 with high honors. Up to that point he had
been cynically agnostic. But in 1831 he attended a revival with his mother
lead by Charles Finney, the leader of a large religious movement in the
northeast. Deeply moved he decided to enter the ministry. Noyes attended
the Andover Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School. It wa ...
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Prostate Cancer And Treatment
Number of Words: 531 / Number of Pages: 2
... These are drugs that help relax muscles near the prostate and may relieve symptoms. Alpha blockers are new drugs, so the doctors are not sure of all the side effects (Saltus A1). No matter what medication a patient decides to take, the victim still expieriences a great deal of pain. " My cancer, was the most painful thing I have ever had to go through," said Curtis. In the book A Private Battle, Ryan Cornelius has a grade five cancer. Prostate cancer ranges from grade one to grade ten, with ten being the most advanced. When prostate cancer is in its advanced phases, it becomes hard to dete ...
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Dreaming: Function And Meaning
Number of Words: 1359 / Number of Pages: 5
... have
both physiological and psychological determinants, and therefore can be
either meaningful or meaningless, varying greatly in terms of psychological
significance.
Interpretation Of Dreams Revisited
If we are to understand Freud's view of the dream, we need to consider
his concept of the dreamer's brain. We know today that the nervous system
contains two types of nerve cells (excitatory and inhibitory). Both types
discharge and transmit electrochemical impulses to other neurons. Both do
this spontaneously, without any kind of outside stimuli, as well as when
they themselves receive excitat ...
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