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Greatly Affected Brain Chemistry
1,024 wordsAlcoholism is a deadly disease in which an individual is addicted to alcohol and its relaxing effects. There is a theory that holds that addiction fits many criteria used to define other diseases and should therefore be treated as a disease. The individual depends on alcohol to get through the day or night, solve their problems, ease their depression, or no reason at all. According to the Encyclopedia of Health-Substance Abuse, an addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to use a drug or other ...
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Attention Deficit Disorder Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
1,286 wordsAttention Deficit Disorder (ADD) is a problem that affects 5 % to 10 % of all children. ADD affect more children than any other childhood problems except asthma. It is estimated to be the largest single cause for first referrals to child guidance clinics throughout the country, making up as many as 40 % of those cases. Many ADD cases are not diagnosed because the problem most often does not show in the doctors office. Current estimates suggest that approximately 50 to 65 % of the children with A...
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Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
3,264 wordsBrain Chemistry and Recent Advances The mysteries surrounding the complexity of the brain and how it works has led scientists in diverse fields to search for answers. Chemicals in the brain and the reactions that take place are being understood now more than ever due to continuing research in genetics, pharmacology, and mental illness. Study and research in genetics has helped identify some of the genes involved in producing, receiving, or sending certain chemical reactions, the way they work, a...
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Seasonal Affective Disorder Risk Taking Behavior
3,198 wordsDepression is a disease affecting the entire mind and body, causing a person to feel miserable in many ways. Changes in brain chemistry make it happen. It is a brain disease. When speaking of depression Im not referring to the normal down periods that everyone goes through once in a while, that can be brought on by a rainy day, a broken heart, the flu or even for no particular reason. People mope around, listen to sad music and feel sorry for themselves. These moods go away within a couple of da...
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Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Deaf And Dumb
1,285 wordsAbnormal Psychology One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest This movie demonstrates much of what I despise about my fellow feeble-minded Americans. In this movie, I saw stereotypes galore, and almost every cliche in the book. For example, one voluntary patient is seeking therapy for his marital problems. It seems that he and his wife were having sexual problems. This ultimately leads everyone, patients and viewers alike, to believe that this man must be gay. As if this werent enough, we have to have the ...
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Deaf And Dumb Nurse Ratched
1,281 wordsThis movie demonstrates much of what I despise about my fellow feeble-minded Americans. In this movie, I saw stereotypes galore, and almost every cliche in the book. For example, one voluntary patient is seeking therapy for his marital problems. It seems that he and his wife were having " sexual" problems. This ultimately leads everyone, patients and viewers alike, to believe that this man must be gay. As if this werent enough, we have to have the " blind-deaf-and-dumb-guy" ,...
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