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  • Genes Associated with Bipolar Disorder

    Genes Associated with Bipolar Disorder

    Stated in the John Hopkins Neurology and Neurosurgery journal “ Brain Waves” ( Potash , 2004 ) illustrates the idea which came from German psychiatrist Emil Kraipelin in the 1800’s that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are distinct from each other by visualizing them as two trees in a forest of mental illness. As a result began the separation of the diseases that marks today's psychiatry. Potash also states that "If we knew the genes associated

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Bred
  • Why Do Americans Eat Fast Food

    Why Do Americans Eat Fast Food

    STARE DECISIS - Lat. "to stand by that which is decided." The principal that the precedent decisions are to be followed by the courts. To abide or adhere to decided cases. It is a general maxim that when a point has been settled by decision, it forms a precedent which is not afterwards to be departed from. The doctrine of stare decisis is not always to be relied upon, for the courts find it necessary

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: regina
  • Progeria, the Premature Fatal Aging Disorder in Children, May Be Able to Be Reversed Through Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors Treatments

    Progeria, the Premature Fatal Aging Disorder in Children, May Be Able to Be Reversed Through Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors Treatments

    Progeria, the premature fatal aging disorder in children, may be able to be reversed through Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTI) treatments. Formally known as Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome, Progeria is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in every 8 million babies born. The disorder is known for its unusual appearance of premature aging in children. Progeria was first discovered when it showed up in a child in 1886 by Dr. Hutchinson. The second case was later

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    The mental abnormality Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder has been thought as through the years another chiche chapter in the book of mental malfunctions. However by experts it is considered to be a great risk to the lives of many more adults than people realize. It makes chaos out of everyday routines and puts extreme complication onto the simplest situations (NIMH 2). Understanding this mental illness requires one to know what the ailment is, why people have it,

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • What Is Eatting Gilberts Grape

    What Is Eatting Gilberts Grape

    Through the movie 'what's eating Gilbert grape', the characters Gilbert and Betty Carver not only show love and responsibility but frustration towards some of the most special people in there life. Both characters show a lot of love and responsibility but they also show signs of frustration when the both of them reach there boiling point. Gilbert is a very strong and loving person when it comes to his family and always wants and does

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jessica
  • High Blood Pressure Can Be Controlled Through Healthy Eating

    High Blood Pressure Can Be Controlled Through Healthy Eating

    As blood flows through the body, it exerts stress on blood vessel walls; creating an effect known as blood pressure. Blood pressure is measured by “the force in the arteries when the heart beats (systolic pressure) and when the heart is at rest (diastolic pressure)” (American Heart Association [AHA], 2008, para. 1). An average healthy adult’s blood pressure has a measurement of 120 over 80 or less (AHA, 2008, para. 3). “High blood pressure (also

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Andrew
  • How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder?

    How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder?

    How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder Everybody has had experience with anxiety. Indeed anxiety responses have been found in all species right down to the sea slug (Rapee, et al 1998). The concept of anxiety was for a long time bound up with the work of Sigmund Freud where it was more commonly known as neurosis. Freud’s concept of neuroses consisted of a number of conditions

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Max
  • Bi Polar Disorder

    Bi Polar Disorder

    What is bipolar disorder? There are two types of bipolar disorders, there is bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder. Bipolar disorder can also be known as manic depressive illness. Approximately one percent of the population has suffered or is suffering with this disorder. Bipolar disorder affects men, women, and children. Bipolar disorder usually appears between the ages of 15 and 25. A mild form of bipolar disorder is called cyclothymiacs. Symptoms of bipolar disorder

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    Essay Length: 970 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Psychological Disorders

    Psychological Disorders

    The top three criteria for determining psychological disorders are deviance, maladaptive behavior, and personal distress. How one defines normal depends on the society one lives in. Although every Culture has ideals of what they consider normal behavior, these ideals vary from one Culture to another . When someone deviates from their respective cultures ideal of normal , They may be labeled mentally ill. The book gives the example of transvestic fetishism, where A man is

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Top
  • What Are We Really Eating?

    What Are We Really Eating?

    Bradis McGriff ENVS10 Dr. Williams Rough Draft March 16, 2006 What Are We Really Eating? Everything that we eat has some form of an unnatural chemical in the product. As of late I have been considering only eating organic foods because not only is it healthier, but it is safer. In this term paper I am going to examine a few aspects of organic food. First I will examine what is organic food and what

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Tommy
  • How Are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked?

    How Are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked?

    Ashley Kirkman Younger Eng 1113; Section 0356 27 September 2005 How are Bipolar Disorder and Depression Linked? For many, life is stressful and hectic and for a portion of Americans, who lead frenzied lives, this chaos and confusion further fuels the burning fire of psychological disorders such as bipolar, depression, post- traumatic stress disorder, and many others. Two of the most closely related psychological disorders are Bipolar Disorder and Depression. Although these disorders do have

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Monika
  • Addressing & Analyzing the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder - Adhd

    Addressing & Analyzing the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder - Adhd

    Introduction Psychology contemporarily insinuates itself as one of the most contentious segments of the sector of medical science, this being perhaps particular due to the fact that it primarily bases its research and studies upon intangible and theoretical rather than tangibly physical data. Another factor, moreover, that has tended to be one of the more significant, recent contributors to this contentiousness has been the increased proof of increasingly diverse psychological ailments in consistently decreasing age

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: July
  • Anxiety Disorders

    Anxiety Disorders

    Anxiety is a normal reaction to a threatening situation and results from an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood flow to the muscles. These physical reactions are appropriate for escaping from danger but when they cause anxiety in many situations throughout the day, they may be detrimental to a normal lifestyle. An anxiety disorder is

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a lifelong disorder, which can cause a person to do things repeatedly. This disorder is identified by two general symptoms: obsessions and compulsions. An obsession can be defines as an unwelcome, distressing thought or mental image. (Schwartz, 1996) It is a thought that annoys you so much that it causes distress and anxiety. Compulsions are the behaviors that people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder perform in an attempt to

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Bipolar Affective Disorder

    Bipolar Affective Disorder

    Bipolar affective disorder has been a mystery since the 16th century. History has shown that this disorder can appear in almost anyone. Even the great painter Vincent Van Gogh is believed to have had bipolar disorder. It is clear that in our society many people live with bipolar disorder, however, despite the amount of people suffering from it, we are still waiting for explanations for the causes and cure. The one fact of which

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Gender Identity Disorder

    Gender Identity Disorder

    (e-mail me and let me know if you use this and how it does) Gender Identity Disorder (GID) As early as the age of four (Vitale, 1996), some children begin to realize that the gender their body tells them they are, and the gender their mind tells them they are don't correspond. The sense of gender and the anatomical sex of a person mature at different times and different regions of the body (Vitale, 1997b).

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Many of us have recurrent thoughts or worries, some people perform repetitive routines that might seem unreasonable; however, because these ideas, thoughts, and habits do not last long and on the whole do not cause distress and dysfunction, they are not classified as obsessions. On the other hand, for individuals with obsessive- compulsive disorder, these worries and concerns resulting in compulsions, can go as far as taking over a person’s life. These persistent obsessions can

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Manic Depressive Disorder

    Manic Depressive Disorder

    Concept Manic depressive disorder is a chemical imbalance within the brain. This disorder disrupts you mood and causes your emotions to fluctuate. Mood swings. The disorder causes one to experience extreme depression and mania. The intensity of the mood swings vary going from mild, moderate, and severe. Without treatment the severity and frequency of the illness builds up over the years. Non-professionals normally call this disease “manic-depressive illness”. Those in the psychiatric field refer to

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Social Anxiety Disorder

    Social Anxiety Disorder

    Social Anxiety Disorder 1 Running Head: LIVING WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY Social Anxiety Disorder Amy McCormick Louisiana Delta Community College Psychology 101 Robinson December 7, 2005 Social Anxiety Disorder 2 Social Anxiety Disorder is the world’s third largest mental health problem which affects over seven percent of the world’s population. Social Anxiety is the fear and anxiety one has in a social situation, or the feeling of being judged by other people in public. It

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • What’s Eating Gilbert Grap

    What’s Eating Gilbert Grap

    What’s Eating Gilbert Grape portrays a family that is dealing with the trials, tribulations, and also great times of having a member with a disability. The Grape family consists of Gilbert, Ellen, Amy, Mama, and of course, Arnie. The Grape family lives in an isolated town of Endora in a house that seems to be in shambles since their father died. In the beginning, Gilbert’s voiceover states that “living in Endora is like dancing to

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    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Attention Deficit Disorder

    Attention Deficit Disorder

    Attention Deficit Disorder, widely known as ADD, is a brain disorder which many people suffer from daily. The symptoms described by three authors all go hand in hand, but ADD varies greatly from person to person and some may have completely different symptoms than others. The diagnosis of ADD varies in each author with their own technique. ADD treatment is a long debated and very rough subject, as the authors have different views. The authors

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: regina
  • Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, can be a serious and debilitating mental illness. This disorder affects one percent (approximately three million people) of the population in the United States. It occurs equally in men and women. Although the exact cause remains unknown, it is believed that biologic, genetic, and environmental factors are involved in triggering the episodes of this illness. These episodes may last for weeks or months. Bipolar disorder frequently begins in

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Bred
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    “I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But… I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Yan
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Communication Conflicts Within the Home After Returning from War.

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Communication Conflicts Within the Home After Returning from War.

    Prepared by: Patrick Ferguson, Adriana Gavrau and Shannon Marshall. INTRODUCTION Many soldiers, returning home from their years of service in the military, have fond memories of things they have experiences and friendships they had acquired. For most soldiers, the time they spent in the armed services was a transition point in their life from high school graduation, into adulthood. However, there is a vast majority of these soldiers that are left with unpleasant reminders of

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Anna
  • Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline Personality Disorder For the second film analysis, I watched “Girl Interrupted.” The movie is about a teenage girl name Susanna Kaysen who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. People with Borderline Personality Disorder “are often emotionally unstable, impulsive, unpredictable, irritable, and anxious. They also are prone to boredom. Their behavior is similar to that of individuals with schizotypal personality disorder but they are not as consistently withdrawn and bizarre” (Santrock, 2005). In “Girl

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Wendy

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