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Day To Day Children And Adults
1,663 wordster> What is Autism? Autism affects more than 400, 000 Americans, between 10 and 20 of ever 10, 000 people in the United States (Mayo). Autism is a developmental disability of the brain, much like dyslexia or attention deficit disorder. Autism is not a form of mental retardation, and though many autistic people act like they are retarded, but a lot of times they are very intelligent. People need to be aware of what is, what causes it, who it is diagnosed, what people with autism are li...
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Information Symptoms And Treatment Of Schizophrenia
1,564 words... ce among people with schizophrenia is approximately three times as high. Research has shown that the relationship between smoking and schizophrenia is complex. Although people with schizophrenia may smoke to self medicate their symptoms, smoking has been found to interfere with the response to antipsychotic drugs. Several studies have found that schizophrenia patients who smoke need higher doses of antipsychotic medication. Quitting smoking may be especially difficult for people with schizop...
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Genetic Disorder Genetic Basis
610 wordsPolydactyl y or Polydactylism Polydactyl y is usually defined as a congenital irregularity of the feet and hands. In other words, polydactyl y occurs when the person has more than five toes per foot or more than five fingers per hand. Alternative names for polydactyl y are extra digits or supernumerary digits. Although it is quite difficult to define the exact causes of the disease, having an excessive numbers of digits can happen on its own, and can have no links with other diseases or symptoms...
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Type 1 Diabetes Type 2 Diabetes
1,356 wordsNearly 16 million people in the United States nearly one out of every 17 people have diabetes. And about 1, 800 new cases are diagnosed each day. Technically, this disease is known as diabetes mellitus, diabetes from the Greek for excessive urination, a symptom the ancients noticed, and mellitus, from the Latin for honey diabetic urine is filled with sugar and is sweet. There are three types of diabetes: type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. All of them are a little different. But everyone w...
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Socio Economic Status Alcohol Related Problems
4,421 wordsIntroduction The focus of this paper is alcoholism. The aspects that will be examined in the following pages are the biology of alcoholism, and the genetic basis determining that alcoholism is a hereditary disease. Clarification of the phases of alcoholism as well as possible explanations of the nature of the disease will be offered. Examination of studies concerning biological markers associated with alcoholism and advanced animal testing will allow further understanding of alcoholism and relat...
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Taking Sides Clashing Sides Clashing Views
2,397 wordsCernovsky, Intelligence And Race Bibliography Cernovsky, Z. Z. (July 1995). On the Similarities of American Blacks and Whites: A Reply to J. P. Rushton. In B. Slife (Ed. ), Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Psychological Views, 184 - 187. Guilford, CT: Duskin/McGraw-Hill. Ehrlich, P. R. , 038; Feldman S. S. (1969). The Race Bomb: Skin Color, Prejudice and Intelligence. New York: The New York Times Book Company. Is There a Racial Difference in Intelligence? Starting with birth, mos...
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Males And Females Anxiety Disorder
668 wordsAnxiety Disorders Anxiety is a feeling of tension associated with a sense of threat of danger when the source of the danger is not known. In comparison, fear is a feeling of tension that is associated with a known source of danger. I believe it is normal for us to have some mild anxiety present in our daily lives. Everyday that I can think of I have some kind of anxiety though out that day. Anxiety warns us and enables us to get ready for the? fight or flight? response. However, heightened anxie...
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