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Cope With Stress Fruits And Vegetables
1,345 wordsPeople are, as the expression goes, what they eat. After all, the muscles in a person's body, and the blood flowing through their veins, are all supplied by the food that he or she consumes. Understandably, these foods would also have an effect on the way the brain functions. The foods we eat have measurable effects on the body's performance, they may prove to have an even more critical influence on how the brain handles its tasks. The idea that the right foods, or the natural neuro chemicals th...
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Greater Risk Study Suggests
735 wordsEcstasy: Are Women More Susceptible To Brain Damage? The rave scene. Its becoming a popular way to kick-back for high school and college kids. Everyone is doing it at parties. Unfortunately, this party isnt all fun and games. Drugs are prevalent at raves. Ecstasy, one of the most popular drugs abused there is like the tiny insects that arent widely feared, but can be deadly. It looks small and innocent, but its more harmful than you may think. Ecstasy is actually C 11 H 15 NO 2, which means. New...
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Ways The Food We Eat Affects Our Moods
1,384 wordsHave you ever woken up at eight in the morning and realized that you were suppose to be just walking through the door at work, so, you just out of bed, toss on your clothes and instead of grabbing for your breakfast, you grab for your car keys? You get to work and the day is just so busy that you forget to eat lunch, and as the time passes, things are harder to take in and you irritability level rises, yet, for some reason, after you eat a meal, things become easier to handle? Well, this has hap...
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Illicit Drug Ecstasy Mdma
1,644 wordsIllicit Drug (Ecstasy MDMA) Ecstasy, scientifically known as 3, 4 -methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA), represents a known street illicit drug and simultaneously entirely synthetic substances, which does not exist in nature. From the chemical perspective, MDMA is a derivative of a derivative of methamphetamine and its parent compound amphetamine. Practically, it differs from the mentioned chemicals in a single but important aspect: due to the specific location of its methylenedioxy (-O-CH^sub ...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder People Who Suffer
1,072 wordsSeasonal Affective Disorder Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is a common problem of people living in northern United States. People who are affected by this disorder commonly suffer from depression, lethargy, inability to concentrate, overeating and weight gain. People from the north tend to suffer more from this disorder because of the shortened days. It appears, that due to the deficiency of sunlight some people suffer from these symptoms. The shortened days have a hormonal effect on the b...
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Selective Serotonin Antidepressant Medications
563 wordsGenerally, depression is regarded as an illness due to an imbalance of serotonin in the brain. When seen as such, depression can no longer be considered a? mental illness, ? but instead must be categorized with physical illnesses that also have causes, symptoms, and remedies. There are also various types of depression, including Dysthymia, Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD, and Bipolar disorder, which is also called manic depression 1. These types all differ slightly in the severity of their sy...
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Side Effects Serotonin Levels
2,576 wordsIm not like them, but I can pretend, the sun is gone, but I have a light, the day is done, and Im having fun, I think Im dumb or maybe just happy -Nirvana Quick get this band some Prozac on the double! Actually odds would suggest that theyre already taking the drug. The antidepressant Prozac has reached pop culture status and widespread use which cant be rivaled by any drug, but oddly enough, I never seemed to give the drug much thought. My curiosity was sparked one day when I flipped to MTV to ...
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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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American Medical Association American Journal Of Psychiatry
1,329 wordsDepression and Suicide In Adolescents. As a state of extreme grief and all-encompassing sadness, depression, if left untreated, may lead to a deliberate murder of oneself, suicide. Depression effects individuals with out discriminating against race, gender, or age, yet among adolescents, the incidents of depression have increased significantly. Such increase is the potential cause of the rise of suicide rates amidst adolescents. Therefore it is imperative to treat depression before attempts of s...
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Hydrogen Peroxide Chemical Imbalance
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Anorexia Nervosa
2,576 wordsThesis Statement: Anorexia Nervosa, a disturbing disease of denial, consisting of self -imposed starvation and the intense fear of gaining weight, is becoming an epidemic among many teenage girls due to the environment, biochemistry, and personality of the individual. I. The immediate environment, friends and family, directly influence the development of anorexia. A. Anorexics tend to come from families placing strong emphasis on food and the family may have used food for purposes other than nou...
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Fight Or Flight Sleep Paralysis
1,937 wordsFear-Induced Hallucination: How Sleep Paralysis Triggers Hallucination I researched the web to find out how hallucination starts during an episode of Sleep Paralysis. As I have written in my previous paper, a Sleep Paralysis, although often believed as an evils work, results from some errors of the neural transmission in the brain during REM sleep (1). During a frightening state of Sleep Paralysis, one experiences total body immobility and cannot speak or move besides little eye movements and re...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
1,820 wordsCHEMISTRY SOCIAL ISSUE REPORT Michael Yates 1997 Nicotine Killer or Wonder Drug? Nicotine, one of the most unusual psychoactive drugs known, and the primary pharmacological agent of addiction in cigarettes, triggers powerful physical and psychological reactions in species as diverse as cockroaches and humans. Nicotine has been proven to boost concentration, improve memory and control body weight, as well as alleviating the symptoms of Alzheimers and Parkinsons Disease sufferers. However, researc...
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Negative Symptoms Nerve Cells
1,474 wordsSchizophrenia is defined as a debilitating mental disorder characterized by a dysfunctional thinking process and withdrawal from the outside world. The word schizophrenia comes from two Greek words? schizo? which means split, and? phoenix? , which means mind. This doesn? t mean that a person with the disorder has multiple personalities, but rather parts of the mind seem to be operating independent of each other. The disease affects approximately 1 in 100 people and there are thought to be over 2...
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Central Nervous System Lysergic Acid
1,611 wordsLSD (for Chemistry Class) Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD) LSD), a potent hallucinogenic drug, also called a psychedelic, first synthesized from lysergic acid in Switzerland in l 038. Lysergic acids a white odorless drug, a component of the mold of ERGOT. Ergot is a product of the fungus Claviceps purpurea. Th e bio-active ingredients of ergot are all derivatives of lysergic acid. LSD is a semi-synthetic derivative of lysergic acid. Thus LSD is an ergot like substance. The drug evokes dreamlike ...
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Identity Theory Vice Versa
852 wordsThe identity theory, also known as reductive materialism, is one of the views Churchland uses to describe mind-brain correlation. Churchland believes that the mental states of the body are one and in the same (double aspects) with brain states. They are the same because the biochemical actions produced in brain states (release of serotonin and acetylcholine) have direct interaction with the mental states (mood disorders such as depression). With the help of psychological and physiological eviden...
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Zung Depression Self Assessment Zung Depression Self Assessment Test Prozac
1,255 wordsProzac is the worlds most widely prescribed antidepressant; it has been used by more than 35 million people worldwide. Chances are, someone you know is getting better because of it. In our society of quick fixes and fast food restaurants, it is not surprising to find an increasing amount of people over-prescribed with antidepressants such as Prozac. This prescription drug is becoming alarmingly popular in todays society. People in almost every age category are being prescribed this drug in the t...
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Mental Illness Personality Disorders
1,817 words|Yeah, Im Prozac-Mania Prozac-Mania |Yeah, Im on Prozac, X I hear quite often, said as if the speaker had just received a new Porsche. I often do catch myself responding with, |Im on Zoloft isnt modern medicine great? X In a way, this exchange is a way of bonding. In another, more twisted way, it is a way of receiving a stamp of approval from my peers, for antidepressants have become extremely widespread and widely accepted. |Prozac has entered pop culture becoming the stuff of cartoons and stan...
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Sleep Wake Serotonin Levels
611 wordsSunlight is the most important survival factor in human life. Actually, it is the light from the sun at a speed of 186, 000 miles a second from a source 93 million miles away that rates with food, water and air support system on earth. (R. B. 2) The sun is a necessary factor in our lives that help our entire body function properly. Light is as effective as drugs, perhaps more so, writes Anna With-Justice of the Psychiatric Clinic in Basel, Switzerland. (Chamberlain 2) And a specialist in neurolo...
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