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Drug Addiction Negative Reinforcement
4,209 words... ve drugs. The Addiction Research Center Inventory, an empirically derived test designed to measure the subjective effects of addictive drugs, detects the mood-elevating effects of psychomotor stimulants and opiates on the same scale (see Haertzen and Hickey 1987). On the other hand, the subjective-effects of these two drug classes can be easily distinguished. This is not surprising considering that ex-addicts report a preference for heroin over morphine (Martin and Fraser 1961), even though ...
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Change In Laura Hungry Thirsty Goblin
657 wordsWould you feel safe in a forest full of weird little men? The poem Goblin Market by Christina G. Rossetti uses the awkward feeling of little goblin men seducing two young women in the forest with luscious fruit. This creepy story raises a question of what changes does the character Laura go through and how do these changes effect the mood of the story? The four changes in the character act as four turning points in the story. To begin one must look at what kind of person Laura is portrayed as be...
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Ode To The West Wind Change Things
1,184 wordsAutumnal Theme in English Romantic Poetry: A season of autumn is traditionally associated with transience and mutability, with dying of nature and expectations of the following winter time. For Romantic poets who are known for their extraordinary sensitivity to natural moods the period of fall becomes a great force for poetic creativity. Percy Bysshe Shelley^s "Ode to the West Wind" and John Keats^s ode "To Autumn" are two beautiful poems which were blown to its authors by the English autumn ^ b...
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Manic Depressive Illness American Psychiatric Association
1,664 wordsMood disorders such as bipolar disorder or also known as manic-depression have been closely studied and researched for many years. Due to the inability to find one or any specific gene that contributes to this disorder it has been a long and difficult journey into the understanding of manic-depressive illness. With the contributions of many scientist and researchers slowly the understanding and treatment of bipolar disorder is becoming more clear. The use of lithium and other forms of treatment ...
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Mania In Bipolar Depression
1,100 wordsBipolar depression, also known as bipolar disorder, manic depression and manic-depressive illness, is a form of a depressive illness in which mania and depression alternate. It is a disorder that affects over 2 million (1. 2 percent) Americans and usually begins during adolescence (American Medical Association [AMA], 1998). It is often not recognized as a serious disorder, but in many cases it causes difficulty in occupational, educational, social life, and other important functioning. A person ...
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Elements Of Good And Evil In King Lear
855 wordsKing Lear is one of the famous plays of Shakespeare. Its development of the plot, the mood and the character of Lear through the play made the audiences enjoy the play. The play cannot be successful without the contribution of the secondary characters. By looking at the development of the plot, the mood and the changes of character of Lear, it is obvious that Kent, the Fool and Cornwall play the important role in King Lear. First, Kent, the Fool, and Cornwall are important to the development of ...
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Drugs And Alcohol Adolescent Depression
1,111 wordsOnly in the past two decades has depression in adolescents been taken seriously. Depression is an illness that involves the body, mood and thoughts. It affects the way a person eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, ...
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Situational Influences On Purchasing Behavior
1,929 wordsAbstract There was an investigation in an attempt to understand what situational influences affect purchasing behaviors of consumers. Fifty subjects were asked to complete a survey in determining what attributes affect the decision to purchase a product. The effect of purchase was based on three different times of day: morning, afternoon, and evening. The effect of purchase was also based on whether subjects preferred caffeinated or non-caffeinated soda depending on the time of day. The subjects...
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Evil Spirit Black Bile
1,497 wordsHealing Fiction: Literature and Medicine Introduction Melancholy is nearly as old as the universe, the scholars claim. Ancient Egyptian priests (approx. 4 thousand years ago) healed people who suffered from pathological state of anguish and boredom. Indian priests considered that boredom as well as other mental derangements is the result of diabolism and specially trained priests undertake efforts to conjure out devils. The phenomenon of melancholy as the condition that has been identified and t...
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Psychological View On Modern Dance
2,458 wordsPsychological View on Modern Dance Modern dance was developed at the beginning of the 20 th century. The modern dance pioneers refused to obey the rigid constraints of the Classical Ballet. They also rebelled against classical ballet technique, shoes and costumes. The new era of modern dance was followed by the appearance of various branches of modernism in art, literature, sculpture. The psychological ground for modernism was taken from the works of well-known scholar Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Fre...
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Manic Depressive Illness Common Side Effects
950 wordsProgram on Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in a persons mood, energy, and ability to function. Different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through, the symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. They can result in damaged relationships, poor job or school performance, and even suicide. But there is good news: bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with this illness can lead full and produc...
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Personality Traits Ethical Dilemmas
3,643 wordsThe Controversies Surrounding Cosmetic Psychopharmacology Throughout one s life generalizations and characterizations are made about one s personality. It starts almost the second one is born, She has a cranky demeanor, she cries all the time. During the school years children are characterized as outgoing, energetic, antisocial, shy, aggressive, etc. These characterizations lead to the generalizations of the loners, the overachievers, etc. , all of which continue with the person throughout their...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Selective Serotonin Reuptake
2,657 wordsDepression (psychology), mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in nearly all activities. People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from time to time. In contrast to normal sadness, severe depression, also called major depression, can dramatically impair a person s ability to function in social situations and at work. People with major depression often have feelings of des...
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Depression In Teenagers Depressed Teenagers Suicide
793 wordsThere are many misconceptions about depression. Pathological depression is not the dispirited or down mood, which we all experience from time to time, and which causes us to say, Im depressed, but it is a debilitating illness that affects one in five people of all ages from children to adults. It is not just a passing mood swing. Depression can affect not only a persons mood but also his or her ability to function normally. Treatment is available yet quite a number do not seek it. Depression is ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Depressed Mood
842 wordsTYPES OF DEPRESSIVE CONDITIONS DEPRESSED MOOD DUE TO GRIEF Grieving the loss of someone significant in one? s life is a necessary but usually painful and difficult process. The symptoms of grieving are actually a very normal and healthy reaction to the death of a family member, lover, or friend. The grieving process may involve guilt, despair, anger, insomnia, changes in appetite, and obsessive thoughts about the lost person, and in some cases people report transiently seeing the image or hearin...
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Lines Of The Poem Dramatic Monologue
1,476 wordsThe dramatic monologue features a speaker talking to a silent listener about a dramatic event or experience. The use of this technique affords the reader an intimate knowledge of the speakers changing thoughts and feelings. In a sense, the poet brings the reader inside the mind of the speaker. (Glenn Everett online) Like a sculpture pressing clay to form a man, a writer can create a persona with words. Every stroke of his hand becomes his or her own style, slowly creating this stone image. A dra...
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Edgar Allan Poe Literary Elements
401 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Throughout literature, an author s works almost always reflect their mood and character. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer whose short stories and poems reflected his pessimistic moods. One of Poe s poems, The Raven, is about a raven that flies into the home of a sad and lonely man. This poem best expresses Poe s sense of despair and gloominess because the literary elements used in the poem are a constant reference to them. An example that portrays The Raven as a reflection ...
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Severe Depression Theory Suggests
1,028 wordsHow is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) used to treat depression? To answer this question, we must first answer these other questions: What is electroconvulsive therapy? When depression is diagnosed, which patients are suitable for ECT and which for psychotherapy? If not all depressed patients will respond to ECT, how are we to identify those likely to benefit? Invented by Cerletti and Bini, in 1938, ECT was the first form of therapy that reliably reduced severe depression (Abrams and Essman, 198...
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Bipolar Disorder Manic Depression
1,041 wordsBIPOLAR DISORDERBipolar Disorder, often called Manic Depression, is a medical condition that involves severe mood swings in an individual. It is a lifetime condition that needs to be treated to keep it in remission (APA). It is not just a mental illness, but a medical disease involving the brain The disease progresses as the years pass and the frequency of mood changing episodes becomes more frequent (MHN). Bipolar Disorder involves depressive and manic phases. With the symptoms presented, clini...
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Golding Novel Lord Lord Of The Flies
764 wordsBa alzevuv In any work of literature an author must use certain techniques to illustrate the subject he is writing. In William Golding s novel, Lord of the Flies, these techniques are evident and well constructed. Demonstrated by his effective use of literary elements and figurative language, Golding s depiction of a group of boys stranded on an island is a superb example for literary analysis. In Lord of the Flies, one of the effective literary elements is Golding section, or word choice. For e...
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