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  • Stress and Mood

    Stress and Mood

    Abstract Work and relationships have an affect on a person’s over all well-being. They can cause high levels of stress and very content moods. If stress is built up over time and people are always in bad moods, a person health could be in danger. We set out to test that work situations would be more stressful and put people in a worse mood then relationships conflicts. Participants were 42 undergraduate students (33 female, 9

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    Essay Length: 3,858 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Steve
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders Eating Disorders are a serious mental health issue. One in ten cases of anorexia nervosa leads to death from starvation, cardiac arrest, and kidney failure, other medical complications, or suicide; furthermore, people with this disorder may die without treatment. Treatment usually begins in an outpatient facility, hospitalization may be necessary in serious cases. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating are three examples of psychiatric eating disorders. Bulimia Nervosa is a secretive cycle of

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    Essay Length: 625 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Identifying Communication Disorders in Students

    Identifying Communication Disorders in Students

    Identifying Communication Disorders in Students This assignment will target an audience of professionals in the field of Childhood Education such as teachers, administrators and aides, as well as those in the field of Communication Sciences and Disorders. In addition, the audience includes scholars and readers of the journal Intervention in School & Clinic: an “Interdisciplinary journal directed to those who deal with the day-to-day aspects of special and remedial education” (Intervention). As the prevalence

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    Essay Length: 998 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    I. Introduction A. What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)? B. Living with Generalized Anxiety Disorder II. Symptoms of GAD A. Mental B. Physical III. Who gets GAD? A. Risk Factors B. U.S. Statistics on GAD C. When does GAD start? D. Co-morbidities IV. Treatments for GAD A. Medications B. Therapy C. Self-Help V. Conclusion A. The future of GAD B. Living life with less anxiety C. Final thoughts Anxiety happens to everyone, at some point

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    Essay Length: 895 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Jon
  • Dysthymic Disorder

    Dysthymic Disorder

    Dysthymic disorder also known as Neurotic depression is a depressive mood disorder. It usually is current and happens every day or two years. Dysthymia is more common among African Americans and Mexican Americans than among Caucasians. Womaen are twice as likely to suffer from this depreesive mood disorder than males. Women are diagnosed with dysthymic disorder at two to three times the rate as men. The cause of this may be the hormonal fluctuation from

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    Essay Length: 491 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • Treatments; Borderline Personality Disorder

    Treatments; Borderline Personality Disorder

    Treatments; Borderline Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder is amongst the hardest personality disorders to treat. BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) continues to aggravate, baffle, and reward doctors and psychologists. Psychotherapies differ considerably; however, there are two major paths to treatment with this disorder: insight-oriented therapy or stabilizing interventions. Each pathway is characterized by particular techniques and interventions, but each is primarily defined by its overarching goal or objective. (2) Insight-oriented therapy is often referred to as

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    Essay Length: 368 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • Classification: Help for Mental Disorders

    Classification: Help for Mental Disorders

    Help for Mental Disorders There are many different things that are the cause of mental disorders. Alcoholism, brain tumors, strokes, and damage to the brain are a few causes of mental disorders. Mental disorders can also result from birth. There are many health care services for mental disorders. Three occupations that help the symptoms of mental health are psychiatrist, neurologist, and a clinical psychologist. Each of these occupations, psychiatrist, neurologist, and a clinical psychologist, treat

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    Essay Length: 512 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • Does Mood State Change Risk Taking Tendency in Older Adults?

    Does Mood State Change Risk Taking Tendency in Older Adults?

    Citation: Chou, K., Ho, Andy H. Y., Lee, Tatia M. C., (2007). Does Mood State Change Risk Taking Tendency in Older Adults? Journal of Psychology and Aging, 22(2), 310-318. Introduction Everyday, copious amounts of individuals are placed in a variety of moods ranging from happy to sad, to ecstatic, to severely depressed, and a plethora of other emotions. Because of our fluctuating emotional states, it is sometimes difficult for people to make fully competent decisions,

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: regina
  • Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar disorder is a confusing and misunderstood illness. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness. It is a brain disorder causing unusual shifts in a person’s mood, attitude, and abilities to function. Despite popular belief, bipolar disorder is not a mental retardation but an imbalance in the brain which causes drastic behavioral and mood swings. Little is known about the causes of bipolar disorder. A popular belief is that bipolar disorder is biological

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    Essay Length: 654 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    Eating disorders are not a lack of will or defect in behavior. They are a treatable mental condition that is usually due to a maladaptive order. The main types of eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, A third type, binge-eating disorder, has been suggested but has not yet been approved as a formal psychiatric diagnosis. Eating disorders frequently develop during adolescence or early adulthood, but some reports indicate their onset can occur during

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    Essay Length: 541 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Hide & Seek and Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Hide & Seek and Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Hide & Seek and Dissociative Identity Disorder In the psycho thriller, Hide & Seek, a widower and his daughter struggle with a very scary, very extreme case of an “imaginary” friend. After losing his wife to suicide, David, played by Robert DeNiro, decides it would be best for him and his daughter Emily, played by Dakota Fanning, to move away from the city where his wife died and start their lives over fresh. The events

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    Essay Length: 832 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • With Reference to the Plays Context, Explore the Techniques Used by Shakespeare to Establish the Mood and Plot of Hamlet in Act one, Scene one?

    With Reference to the Plays Context, Explore the Techniques Used by Shakespeare to Establish the Mood and Plot of Hamlet in Act one, Scene one?

    With reference to the plays context, explore the techniques used by Shakespeare to establish the mood and plot of Hamlet in Act One, Scene One? In Act One, Scene One “Hamlet”, there are many different techniques used by Shakespeare to establish the mood and plot of the ply. These techniques are used to effectively establish the setting of the play, the weather, and the general mood of the play, which in the context of Hamlet

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    Essay Length: 1,611 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Janna
  • Obesity - What Characterizes Obesity? Is It a Disease or a Disorder?

    Obesity - What Characterizes Obesity? Is It a Disease or a Disorder?

    Unhealthy, overweight, fat, and lazy are some of the many descriptions people tend to associate with people who are obese. Is this an accurate assumption or portrayal of someone who is obese? What characterizes obesity? Is it a disease or a disorder? Is it both? There are many categories in which obesity can be placed in. Many people misunderstand and misuse the word. They tend to use this word with negative connotations attached, with out

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    Essay Length: 1,627 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Sleeping Disorders

    Sleeping Disorders

    A little less than half of the United States population has a sleeping disorder. There are numerous types of sleeping disorders. The two most common are sleep apnea and insomnia. Up to half of the population suffers from insomnia and approximately 18 million people suffer from sleep apnea. One of the least common is narcolepsy. About 200,000 people suffer from that disorder. (SleepNet, 2004) Insomnia is the most common sleeping disorder in the United States.

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    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Victor
  • Aromatherapy Positively Affects Mood, Eeg Patterns of Alertness

    Aromatherapy Positively Affects Mood, Eeg Patterns of Alertness

    Aromatherapy Positively Affects Mood, EEG Patterns of Alertness And Math Computations This study was done on volunteers of University of Miami Medical School; there were 40 adults in all their average age was in the 30. 30 female and 10 males, 43% White, 15% African American and 42% Hispanic. The purpose of this study was to see if aromatherapy positively effect people in the brain. The participants were randomly selected in 2 separate groups. Before

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    Essay Length: 394 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Multiple Personality Disorder

    Multiple Personality Disorder

    Multiple Personality Disorder When you were growing up, did you have an imaginary friend? Did Mom and Dad have to set a place for Timmy at the table and serve him invisible food, or did all your aunts and uncles have to pet your imaginary puppy when the came over to the house? That's just pretend, though, kids having fun. So is a child pretending that they are someone else, forcing their parents to call

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    Essay Length: 932 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Impact of Skinny Models on Eating Disorders and Women’s Purchasing Behaviour

    Impact of Skinny Models on Eating Disorders and Women’s Purchasing Behaviour

    The Impact of skinny models on Eating Disorders and Women’s Purchasing Behaviour Literature Review The literature review focuses on literature regarding the links between the use of skinny models in advertising, the purchase decision, women’s feelings of self worth, dissatisfaction with their own body and eating disorders. Models and the Ideal Body Shape Research in an article by Fay and Price (entitled “Female Body-shape in Advertisements”) found that the body shape of contemporary models in

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Edward
  • Bipolar Disorder

    Bipolar Disorder

    Abstract Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to function. It is also known as manic-depressive illness. The symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe and very different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through. It is the third most common mood disorder after major depression and dysthymic disorder. It affects about 1% of adults during their lifetime. The symptoms of bipolar disorder

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    Essay Length: 2,119 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jack
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    Anxiety can take on many definitions. However, generalized anxiety disorder focuses on the events in everyday life. When someone like James in our case study, worries excessively about day to day events over a period of six months or more, they should seek treatment right away before the symptoms worsen. Researchers have still yet to find a cure for GAD. In this particular case study I will point out how the environment influences this disorder.

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    INTRODUCTION Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder commonly referred to as OCD, is defined according to the Obsessive Compulsive Foundation (2007), as the neurological disorder characterized by recurrent unwelcome thoughts known as obsessions and repetitive behaviors known as compulsions that its sufferers feel the need to perform. Though OCD sufferers are usually over meticulous, and feel some stress while performing their “rituals”, people should not be quick to judge an individual that is overly zealous about the appearance of

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Top
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,

    Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder,

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder, also known as OCD causes people to suffer in silence and secrecy and can destroy relationships and the ability to work. It may bring on shame, ridicule, anger, and intolerance from friends and family. Although it has been reported in children, it strikes most often during adolescence or young adult years. The illness can affect people in any income bracket, of any race, gender, or ethnic group and in any occupation. If people

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Bipolar Disorder - one Man’s Journey to a Diagnosis

    Bipolar Disorder - one Man’s Journey to a Diagnosis

    Bipolar Disorder One Man’s Journey to a diagnosis Bipolar disorder, formally known as manic-depressive insanity ,according to the DSM-IV is defined as a person experiencing periods of depression and also periods of elation or manic episodes that last at least a week at one time, or at least for four days. .During periods of mania the mind is racing at top speed with ideas and plans. Thoughts of activities, excessive talking, writing, spending sprees,

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    Essay Length: 1,356 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • Autism - Brain Disorder

    Autism - Brain Disorder

    Autism Autism Autism: brain disorder that begins in early childhood and persists throughout adulthood; affects three crucial areas of development: communication, social interaction, and creative or imaginative play. Prevalence For many years, the most cited statistic is that autism occurs in 4.5 out of 10,000 live births. This was based on large-scale surveys conducted in the United States and England. More recently, estimates on the prevalence of autism have ranged been as high as 1/4%

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    Essay Length: 1,532 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Seasonal Affective Disorder

    Seasonal Affective Disorder

    Seasonal Affective Disorder: Lighting the Way Pamela Johnson "Whoever wishes to pursue the science of medicine in a direct manner must first investigate the seasons of the year and what occurs in them." Hippocrates (6) Introduction As the shortest day of the year approaches, more and more multi-colored lights and bright, festive decorations are splashed across houses and yards everywhere. Long ago, in more earthy times, people celebrated the solstice because it was the rebirth

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Attention Deficit Disorder

    Attention Deficit Disorder

    Approximately 3-5% of all American children have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). ADD is a leading cause of school failure and under-achievement. ADD characteristics often arise in early childhood. As many as 50% of children with ADD are never diagnosed. Boys significantly outnumber girls, though girls are more likely to be undiagnosed with ADD. ADD is not an attention disorder, but a disorder of impulse control (Pfiffrer 184). Characteristics of Attention Deficit Disorder can include: Fidgeting

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    Essay Length: 1,402 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Stenly

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