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American Psychiatric Association Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders
1,488 wordsA Proposal for the Further Study of Great Writers It could be said that the study of Literature and the study of Psychology are a most incompatible mix. Properly schooled in one or the other of these two disciplines, it is the psychologist who will point out the "left brain" is attributed with the functions of Analyzing, Mathematics, and step-by-step Reasoning and the "right brain" is likewise concerned with Creative Thinking and Visual-Pictorial skills. Accordingly, people will often find a Nic...
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Health Care Costs Children Of Alcoholics
1,750 wordsLiving with a non-recovering alcoholic in the family can contribute to stress for all members of the family. Each member may be affected differently and react to this stress in the same or different way. The level of dysfunction or resiliency of the non-alcoholic spouse is usually a key factor in the effects of problems and levels of stress impacting the children. Children raised in alcoholic families have different life experiences than children raised in non-alcoholic families. Children in alc...
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Crime Scene Mental Disorders
1,565 words... t social scientists (e. g. James Q Wilson) has [sic] stressed the importance of 'socializing' people more effectively. " 'The Unabomber does not like socialization, technology, leftist political causes or conservative attitudes. Apart from his call for an (unspecified) revolution, his paper resembles something a very good graduate student might have written based on his own reading rather than the course assignments. If it is the work of a madman, the writings of many political philosophers ...
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Mentally Challenged Mental Illness
789 wordsAre all delinquents created equal? Indeed there are myriad levels of criminal activity that land offenders in jail, with a percentage of those criminal committing their crimes under the duress of mental illness These prisoners, while deserving of severe punishment, often do not have full control of their faculties. These orphans of society are often compelled by an emotional or mental imbalance that provokes them to act savagely toward their fellow human beings. Many prisoners that are in jail h...
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Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder
1,471 wordsChildhood Onset Bipolar Disorder (COBPD) is one of the most debilitating mental disorders affecting children today. Bipolar Disorder is a mood disorder usually affecting adults that causes sometimes severe changes in mood. Childhood Onset Bipolar disorder is just what it sounds like, a bipolar disorder that occurs during childhood. Persons suffering from a bipolar disorder experience mood swings ranging from depression to mania. During a depressive episode patients can experience feelings of ext...
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Dsm Iv Mood Disorders
1,390 wordsA Controlled Trial of Sustained-Release Bupropion, a Nicotine Patch, or Both for Smoking Cessation. Smoking is the silent killer of the 20 th century more people died from smoking and smoking related illness in the past hundred years than in all the major wars. The situation used to be one of ignorance people did not realise the ill-effects of their habit on their health and the health of those around them. Today the situation has changed most realise the danger but many are addicted and find it...
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Genetic Screening Prenatal Diagnosis
908 wordsGenetic Testing Genetic issues are often related to the themes of bioethics, human decision making and moral issues. Genetic engineering, being one of the main branches of biotechnology, is often spoken in relation to ethical aspects which seem to be mutually contradictory. Who will answer ticklish questions? Who will bear responsibility for future? Is society justified in requiring that people submit to genetic screening, counseling, or prenatal diagnosis? Do physicians have an obligation to in...
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How Stresses Affect Our Health
718 wordsHow Stresses Affect Our Health People feel stressed very frequently. The majority of stresses are connected with our working activity, family life or emotional connections. Stresses can be caused by hundreds of different reasons, starting with rainy weather or vapid food and ending with marital separation or loss of a relative. Everything, which causes stress, is called stressor. According to this, there are external (physical) and internal (emotional) stresses. Also, it is important to distingu...
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York Harper Collins Peripheral Nervous System
1,212 wordsAnalysis of the Anti-psychiatric Approach or Perspective to Schizophrenia and the Conventional Approach There are several approaches of studying and evaluating the concept of schizophrenia that help scholars get deeper insights of the disease and find possible better solutions. The nervous system, as described in Tabers Cyclopedia Dictionary, is a system of extremely delicate nerve cells, elaborately interlaced with each other. More specifically, it functions to regulate and coordinate body acti...
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The Use Of Imagery On Brain Damaged Patients
1,356 wordsThe Use of Imagery on Brain Damaged Patients Rehabilitation of brain-damaged patients has become the field for a deep investigation of modern neuro psychologists all over the world. This aspect of neuropsychology which occupied attention of many scientists is imagery. The thing is that imagery has a strong impact on the psychic processes which occur in mind of a brain-damaged patient. Brain damage causes disability, mental disorders or mental disease etc. Brain damage may result in agnosia. Depe...
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