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Cerebral Cortex Muscle Tone
548 wordsRegardless of the etiologic factor or type of seizure, the basic mechanism is the same. The electric discharges (1) may arise form central areas in the brain that affect consciousness immediately; (2) may be restricted to one area of the cerebral cortex, producing manifestations characteristic of that particular anatomic focus; or (3) may begin in a localized area of the cortex and spread to other portions of the brain, which if sufficiently extensive, produce generalized neurologic manifestatio...
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Beginning Of The End Polio Vaccine
730 wordsBefore the development of the Salk and Sabin vaccines, polio was a serious infection that affected the central nervous system; however with proper vaccinations it can be eradicated in the United States today. There are different kinds of polio. They include spinal polio, non-paralytic form, and paralytic polio. Spinal polio is the most common form that occurs when polio viruses attack nerve cells and control the muscles of the legs, arms, trunk, diaphragm, abdomen, and pelvis. Stiffness in the n...
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Basic Human Rights Heart Disease
1,147 wordsItalian and American Researchers demonstrated last year that heart muscle cells multiply after a heart attack, and now they have evidence that primitive cells travel to the new heart in a transplant patient and grow new muscle and blood vessels. The evidence comes from male transplant patients that received hearts from women; when male cells were discovered in the donated female hearts. This is the first evidence in humans that human hearts can regenerate. The regeneration is possible through st...
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Cancer Chemotherapy Side Effects
788 wordsAccording to a 1988 government survey, marijuana is the third most widely used drug used in the United States, after alcohol and cigarettes. An estimated 66 million people - or one-third of all Americans - have tried marijuana; and roughly 12 million of them are current users. # Marijuana is an illegal drug that is grown throughout the world. It is used for medical treatments, pleasure, and things we use and see today. It also has many side effects, health hazards, and health issues. Marijuana i...
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Sleeping Pills Drug Abuse
667 wordsDrug abuse in America used to be a very bad thing, but now its pretty common. Drug users inhabit almost every city or town in America. Drug abuse or use doesnt necessarily mean using illegal drugs. It can mean abusing the use of prescription medicines or using household chemicals to get high. There are different types of drugs and different street names. For instance, if I want to buy a hit of ecstasy I would ask for E or X. Heroin would be smack, H, or junk. Methamphetamine would be crystal or ...
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Is There Any Medical Potential For Marijuana
1,281 words... ea tivity and provides insight. 'It's a source of positive pleasure' (Abel 186). And if that is all the sick patients' experience in the last days of their lives, then so be it. Bibliography Abel, Ernest L. Ph. D. Scientific Study of Marijuana. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976, 177 - 196. Dickinson, Ben. 'What if weed is exactly what you need?' Esquire; Oct. 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Forbes, Steve. 'Deadly deceit. ' Forbes; Sep. 8, 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Johnso...
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Avoid Real Dangers Coping With Fear Emotions
594 wordsDiscussion Each person has specific situations that evoke strong emotional responses. Emotion is a complex reaction pattern. Although some people consider that emotions are specific thoughts or overt behaviors, emotions are experiences that are experienced passively and occur in part from a cognitive appraisal of a specific situation. Emotion is always accompanied by bodily responses that can be reflexive and learned physical reactions. The situations that tend to evoke strong emotions in me are...
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Medical Doctor Medical School
1,264 wordsMixture of Titles. page # 1 In one page, describe what it means to be a member of a community? Community is a group of people living in a certain geographic area. To be a member of a community means a lot of things. The first thing is that by being a member of a community one becomes a part of a large organism comprised of individuals living in a given area. The organism has its rules to live by and therefore, your main role is not only to obey them but also to contribute to the well being of th...
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Adverse Reactions Heart Muscle
403 wordsDrug Dependence In order for a chemical to be considered a drug it must have the capacity to affect how the body works be biologically active. No substance that has the power to do this is completely safe, and drugs are approved only after they demonstrate that they are relatively safe when used as directed, and when the benefits outweigh their risks. Thus, some very dangerous drugs are approved because they are necessary to treat serious illness. Digitalis, which causes the heart muscle to cont...
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Organic Matter Sense Organs
439 wordsEarthworms are classified Earthworms EARTHWORMS Earthworms are classified as Annelida. Annelida mean little rings which refers to the many segments in their body. The structure of an earthworm? s body is made up of more than one hundred segments separated by partitions that divide the column. All segments are identical except by the anterior and posterior ends. The anterior segments reflect the cephalization that is an adaption of burrowing. The head of the earthworm contains the sense organs. T...
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American Journal Of Psychiatry Anorexia Nervosa
1,031 wordsEating Disorders: The Killer Within How a person perceives their body is influenced by what it looks like to them and what it looks like to others. Our society teaches us through media and social pressure that body image is important. Feeling attractive is an important part of self worth and for many, feeling attractive means matching a certain ideal appearance. Most of us will never be able to look like this ideal, but the message we get is that we risk social failure if we do not try hard enou...
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Blood Pressure Uv Light
1,288 wordsThis report deals with testing the toxicity of certain chemicals on spiders, and determining the toxicity by how it affects it? s ability to weave it? s web. This report contains research on the four chemicals (benzedrine, chloral hydrate, caffeine, and alcohol) as wella's the spiders and their webs. Spiders are of course found in the class Arachnidia, which also contain mites, scorpions, and other arthropods. The order which spiders are classified under is called Araneae, a word of Latin origin...
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Period Of Time Men And Women
637 wordsThere Maturity Are You Mature? There are many ways a person becomes mature throughout his lifetime. There are also many different levels of maturity people go through. Mature people know how to make correct and careful decisions and judgments. They also act correctly in special situations. Another way a person may become mature is in human growth or puberty. As a person gets older his body matures and develops. The word maturity can also be used when talking about a period of time that something...
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Sicilian Mafia Organized Crime
1,235 wordsComparison And Contrast Of Chapters In UnderstandingComaparison And Contrast Of Chapters In Understanding Organized Crime In Global Perspectives The two articles to be compared are The Functions and Structure of Criminal Syndicates by Donald R. Cressey and Donald Cressey s Contributions to the Study of Organized Crime by Joseph L. Albini. Though the second article is merely an evaluation of the first, the goal is to show how Albini agrees with some of Cressey s points, and to present Cressey s e...
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Electro Convulsive Therapy Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
713 wordsThomas Evans One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest 12 - 6 - 96 General Psychology Dr. Sabi In the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoos nest, there was a character named Mc Murphy, played by Jack Nicholson, who was admitted into a mental institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape. It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that he could get off from having to serve his sentence in a work camp. He pretty much saw everything and everyone as a joke but the only per...
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Physiological And Psychological Surgical Abortions
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Anabolic Steroids Olympic Games
892 wordsDRUGS IN SPORT Drug use has been a part of competitive sport for almost a century. At the first olympics in Athens in 1896, marathon runners drank a mixture of brandy and strychnine to help them on their ways and used opiates to control pain during a race. Use of alcohol was very common in the early years of the twentieth century. It might be argued that the first athletes to use drugs to enhance their performance were, in fact, cheating. We need to remember that drug use is not new. East German...
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Coronary Artery Disease Coronary Arteries
746 wordsQUESTION: What is Angina? And what is the cure? RESPONSE: Angina refers to the pain arising from lack of adequate blood supply to the heart muscle. Typically, it is a crushing pain behind the breastbone in the center of the chest, brought on by exertion and relieved by rest. It may at times radiate to or arise in the left arm, neck, jaw, left chest, or back. It is frequently accompanied by sweating, palpitations of the heart, and generally lasts a matter of minutes. Similar pain syndromes may be...
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Performance Enhancing Drugs Mark Mcgwire
671 wordsFor many years people have wrestled with the issue of performance enhancing drugs. Even though many tests and studies have been done to show the affects of these drugs, athletes still choose to use them. A typical college athlete will spend many long hours working out and some of them believe that that is not enough and they make the choice to use drugs to help them get bigger and stronger. Eventually something will happen to each athlete who uses these drugs and they will learn that using these...
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Male Hormone Testosterone Anabolic Steroids
650 wordsOur group chose steroids because of its longtime popularity among athletes and the such, and our soul goal is to inform the class on its composition, effects, and some statistics on who takes and under what circumstances these drugs are taken. Anabolic steroids are synthetic derivatives of the male hormone testosterone. The full name is androgenic anabolic steroids meaning promoting masculine characteristics, building, drugs. Unlike other drugs, steroids are usually taken for somewhat of a posit...
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