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Circadian Rhythms: Experiment
677 Words - 3 Pages.... will primarily
determine if they feel themselves as being either morning or night types of
people. Subjects for my experiment will be randomly chosen from these
questionnaires. I will select three night-time people and three morning-time
people. I will then give each of them a journal. In this journal each subject
will write in it the time that they become hungry, or the time that they became
tired. They will do this for three days. At the end of the three days they
will come back to my laboratory. They will then be put in an isolation booths.
In one of the booths there will be a clock that doesn't have the right time on
it. In another one there will be a window ....
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What Is Angina? And What Is The Cure?
833 Words - 4 Pages.... thallium is performed if
the diagnosis is in question, and sometimes even a cardiac catheterization
is done if the outcome is felt necessary to make management decisions. This
is a complex area which requires careful judgment by physician and patient.
Angina is a manifestation of coronary artery disease, the same disease
leading to heart attacks. Coronary artery diseas refers to those syndromes
caused by blockage to the flow of blood in those arteries supplying the
heart muscle itself, i.e., the coronary arteries. Like any other organ, the
heart requires a steady flow of oxygen and nutrients to provide energy for
rmovement, and to maintain the delicate balance of c ....
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Comparing Treatment Approaches
1189 Words - 5 Pages.... not allowing the drug to reach the brain. He is striving to deal with the physical dependence aspect of cocaine addiction, helping to "wean" patients off the drug. By destroying all effects, both main effects and side effects, of the drug, patients taking it would receive no "high", no positive reinforcement, and would gradually be able to become successful in a treatment program. The problem with this point of view is that cocaine has not been shown to be very physically addicting, as there are no major symptoms of withdrawal that the patient is trying to combat by self-administering more of the drug. By making the drug ineffective in the blood stream, addicts would ....
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The Need For Sleep
414 Words - 2 Pages.... sleep, or Non-Rapid Eye Movement sleep.
The first stage is a very light sleep with relaxed muscles. The second is
characterized by brain waves getting larger. The third and fourth stages
are where the sleeper is in a deep sleep in which their brain waves are
huge and slow which makes this stage the hardest to wake from. After an
hour or so, you shift into a highly active stage characterized by rapid eye
movements, hence the name REM sleep. Suddenly your brain waves are almost
the same as if you were awake. You're in the dreaming stage, which occurs
several times across the course of the night.
Now, what happens when we're deprived of the restful sleep we need? ....
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Euthanasia Term Paper
3093 Words - 12 Pages.... the practice of painlessly putting to death persons who
have incurable , painful, or distressing diseases or handicaps. It come
from the Greek words for 'good' and 'death', and is commonly called mercy
killing. Voluntary euthanasia may occur when incurably ill persons ask
their physician, friend or relative , to put them to death. The patients
or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die.
Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play
god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. They argue that no doctor
should be allowed to decide who lives and who dies.
The issue of euthanasia is having a tremendous impact ....
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Anxiety And Depression In Afro-Americans
1502 Words - 6 Pages.... will attempt to
demonstrate how due to socio-economic differences such as money, racism and
increased exposure to violence, blacks have a greater chance to develop mental
disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Some definitions: Stress, Depression & Anxiety
Stress is everywhere in our lives and it can be found in two forms. The
life of Afro-Americans is filled with both eustress and distress, but it is the
high rate of distress due to socio-economic circumstances that are responsible
for higher rates of depression and anxiety amongst them.
Depression is an emotional state characterized by extreme sadness,
gloomy ruminations, feelings of worthlessness, loss of hope, an ....
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Abortion
372 Words - 2 Pages.... right would be invading on a woman's constitutional liberty.
The unwanted child also suffers. Most of the time the mother of the
unwanted child is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of the
child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and gets very
little attention or love. The foster care system isn't any better. Only a
small percentage of the children are adopted by suitable parents. But the rest
remain in the foster care system, where there is little or no personal care.
In both cases, the child has a poor education because of the lack of attention
and discipline. He grows up to be unproductive individual or a menace to soci ....
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The Results Of Aging
1833 Words - 7 Pages.... Alzheimer's Disease..........................................5
Senile Dementia..............................................5
CARING FOR THE OLD................................................6
Retirement Communities.......................................6
Life-care Facilities.........................................6
House Sharing................................................6
Group Homes..................................................7
Low-cost, Government Subsidized Housing......................7
Foster Care..................................................7
Nursing Homes.... ....
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