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Bell's Palsy
Number of Words: 848 / Number of Pages: 4
... on the effected side of the face, ears, skull
Changes in taste, salivation or tear formation
Face may feel stiff and pulled to one side
Headache
Sensitivity to light and sound
Incidence:
Statistics indicate that Bell's Palsy affects approximately 2 out of 10,000 people, however, the actual incidence is likely to be much higher (around 1 out of 500 to 1,000). The disorder will effect 40,000 men and women a year, usually between the ages of 20 and 35. Of those diagnosed, twenty percent will have reoccurrence of the disease. It can strike almost anyone at any age; however, it ...
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Ericsson Paper: Motor Learning
Number of Words: 286 / Number of Pages: 2
... the role
of genetics, in which Ericsson reasons that there has been no great correlations
between the attainment of superior performance and inherited traits. The
purpose of this paper is to show agreement with Ericsson's theory, but only to
the extent that deliberate practice is just one of many factors which must be
included in order to gain expert status. Also, the task at hand can be a major
determinant of how large a role practice plays in improvement. For example, in
endurance sports such as marathon running, some are genetically endowed with a
high aerobic capacity/VO2 max, and if these "spec ...
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Lucid Dreaming: Asleep And Aware
Number of Words: 1268 / Number of Pages: 5
... the outside of the body and brain patterns also change. There
are usually pauses in breathing and changes in heart rate. The amount of
brain activity is more heightened than that of a regular dream, but less
than when waking. It has also been observed that a person having a lucid
dream shows more brain activity than a waking person under the influence of
hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD (Lucid Dreaming 364).
A lucid dream is usually provoked by an earlier day of heightened
stress or anxiety (Lucid Dreaming 364). They usually occur at the end of
an eight or nine hour sleep (Horgan 50).
Several m ...
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Treating Diabetes With Transplanted Cells
Number of Words: 428 / Number of Pages: 2
... enough insulin to
enable the patients to stop taking injections. In 1990, 145 patients had
received islet transplants. In most patients the islets had not been able
to control blood sugar levels or had lost some of their activity in the
three years. The islets had been performing at maximum capacity and had
become exhausted. They decided that is enough islets are supplied they
should reverse diabetes permanently. Although technical obstacles remained
most of them had to do with the demand of huge numbers of islets. They are
testing a membrane that is made of similar material but is flatter and s ...
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Attitudes Toward Abortion
Number of Words: 4317 / Number of Pages: 16
... prior studies assert, but also that there is an interaction effect of the amount of interpersonal contact with others. That is, interaction with others intensifies the effect of other attitudes on .
A THEORETICAL MODEL
Attitudinal Effects
In the literature on abortion attitudes (e.g., Granberg, 1978; Barnartt and Harris, 1982; Granberg and Granberg, 1981; Benin, 1985), several general clusters of attitudes--religiosity, conservativism, and feminism--show consistent correlations with specific attitudes toward abortion. Research has shown that religious and conservative attitudes lead to opposition ...
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Marajuana: Effects And After Effects
Number of Words: 495 / Number of Pages: 2
... inflammation in the whites of the eyes and the pupils unlikely to
be dilated are in the la
It is still undetermined whether light doses of marijuana has long term
effect. Some short term effects are; it causes a higher heart rate, reddened
eyes, clumsiness, and blunt reflexes.
The physical effects of marijuana use, particularly on developing
adolescents, can be acute. The emotional development of adolescent users may be
interrupted. Scientists feel heavy doses during adolescent damages emotional and
intellectual development a ne system. Marijuana use has an adverse effec ...
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The Negative Portrayal Of LSD
Number of Words: 1899 / Number of Pages: 7
... political change and further media influence over the government. The new decade, along with the effects of the Vietnam War and the strong influence of television, began to leak from the cracks of the nation a new counterculture of rebellious teenagers, unfamiliar narcotics, and a wave of promiscuity. Among the many issues and events molding our nation into a new decade, came the question of government and mind control. For some it was the next step into human evolution, a potential tool for mind control, a liberator of human kind, but for most LSD helped define 1960s counterculture, in which it was ...
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The Best Way To Support Health Care
Number of Words: 350 / Number of Pages: 2
... elnes like cancer. For example an increase in tases won’t stop people from buying and abusing alcohol. As a consecuense of buying alcohol, inocent people could get killed by irresponsible drunk drivers.
Finally, It would be unfair to raise taxes on just one suspected product. Since researchers haven’t found the real cause of cancer, it’s unfair to raise taxes just on tabacco. There are more products that may harm the health like Sweet and Low, caffein, microwaves, cell phones and canned food. If there will be a raise in products suspected of causing cancer, then all such products should have an ...
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Pesticides And Their Harmful Affects
Number of Words: 2800 / Number of Pages: 11
... countries pesticides are used more frequently with legislative control than in the United States. In Mexico and South America, for example, many of the pesticides that the United States and Europe have banned, wind up being used on a majority of their produce crops. The largest problem with this is that Europe and the United States import from South America for produce all of the time.
What good does it do to ban harmful agricultural chemicals to be used on domestically grown crops if crops in other countries are grown with these same harmful chemicals, and are then allowed to be imported? Mexico and ...
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Prenatal Diagnosis: Heredity Disorders, Other Biochemical Diseases, And Disfiguring Birth Defects
Number of Words: 2121 / Number of Pages: 8
... of symptoms, most patients have died in their thirties and
forties owing to a lack specific treatment.
A biochemical disorder also caused by a missing enzyme is the Lesch-
Nyhan syndrome, an extremely unpleasant disorder characterized not only by
profound mental retardation and features of brain damage (stiff limbs with
peculiar movements), but also self-mutilation, (Jones, 1988). Given good care
and attention however, these patients may live on many years in their profoundly
retarded state. They often require restraining, tying their hands, to prevent
them from mutilating themselves.
Anothe ...
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