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Medicine and Nutrition Term Papers and Reports
Drug Abuse
1524 Words - 6 Pages

.... use is stopped. They may undergo physical pain or mental distress. The drug mimics a natural process in the brain called neurotransmission. This is when a brain cell releases a signal to another brain cell. The signal then returns to the first brain cell. The signal is called a neurotransmitter. One major neurotransmitter is called dopamine, which is involved in feelings of pleasure. When the drug is released into the brain, it blocks the dopamine from returning to the first brain cell. Repeated use changes the brain cells so that normal messages can't be sent between brain cells. The drug must always be present in order for neurotransmissions to take place. The ....


Dehumanization Of Infants
922 Words - 4 Pages

.... are further explanation of the trending dehumanization of children she says that his Ideas and others show this digression in morals values , she outlines this my giving a number of deferent examples of arguments that have been used by the anti-life movements such as, children having handicaps ,severe physical and intellectual handicaps. she said that in most cases you would consider this disrimitory but in many cases these abortion are considered justified because the baby may have a handicap. She gave allot of reasonable arguments of the unfairness that is involved in the laws in regards to abortion for instance in America if you pay taxes your tax money could be used ....


Cholesterol
548 Words - 2 Pages

.... walls of the arteries feeding the heart and brain. Together with other substances it can form plaque, a thick, hard deposit that can clog those arteries. This condition is known as atherosclerosis. The formation of a clot (or thrombus) in the region of this plaque can block the flow of blood to part of the heart muscle and cause a heart attack. If a clot blocks the flow of blood to part of the brain, the result is a stroke. A high level of LDL reflects an increased risk of heart disease. That is why LDL is often called "bad" . comes from two sources. It’s produced in your body, mostly in the liver (about 1,000 milligrams a day). And it’s found in foods that come from ....


Breast Cancer Research
377 Words - 2 Pages

.... if the drug is for them or not? Tamoxifen works with some patients but not with others. Patients should also be given the option to use combinations of methods to increase the effectiveness of the treatment. There should be more studies set up to find out about these various drug combinations and their effectiveness on cancer. They should also make it clear which drug combinations have failed when used together. A big problem in this country is that many people don’t understand just how many cases of breast cancer there is each year. They neglect to give themselves self- examinations, which has been proven to be, when done correctly, the very first step in dete ....


Sleep Apnea
1272 Words - 5 Pages

.... other way stations that extend through the central axis of the brain, these structures relay information about things that affect sleep. In Dr. Regestein notes, he spoke of experiments that were performed by researchers. The researchers he spoke of would destroy specific brain structures of a lab animal and then note how the animal slept. For instances, in one lab animal the researcher cut through the axis of the brain at one level, which would prevented the animal from awakening; showing that brain structures below the level of the cut were responsible for awakening the lab animal. The American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA), Association for the Psychophysio ....


Family Practice: Summary
409 Words - 2 Pages

.... feel It," describes how families should share their feelings and not hold them in. After that comes, "Don't play telephone", this is where a third person is used to communicate between two parties. Another step is, "Make your blueprints Flexible," you should not pre-plan your child's life for them. Then he goes into the next step, which is about Contracts called, "Learn to use contracts." With this step the family makes contracts with one another and then monitors and up dates them so often. This helps with everybody holding to their end of the deal when it comes to the family issues. One of the worst steps of all is, "Stop the "Good Guy-"Bad Guy, " routine. I feel that havi ....


Psychoanalysis
2224 Words - 9 Pages

.... or forgotten memories. (Hysteria is now commonly referred to as conversion disorder.) The French neurologist Jean Martin CHARCOT tried to rid the mind of undesirable thoughts through hypnotic suggestion, but without lasting success. Josef Breuer, a Viennese physician, achieved better results by letting Anna O., a young woman patient, try to empty her mind by just telling him all of her thoughts and feelings. Freud refined Breuer's method by conceptualizing theories about it and, using these theories, telling his patients through interpretations what was going on inside the unconscious part of their minds, thus making the unconscious become conscious. Many hysterias wer ....


Health Care: Elderly
1197 Words - 5 Pages

.... It is felt that screening a patient for social or emotional needs is becoming increasingly important. The focus of this study was to devise a questionnaire to identify the psychological, social and environmental needs of elderly patients. Three hospitals from different geographic locations were chosen for this study. At each hospital a care coordinator was chosen to be responsible for questionnaire review, communication with physicians, and further assessment and intervention when deemed necessary. Lists of patients 65 and older were generated from the caseloads of primary care physicians from the three hospital sites. The questionnaires were mailed out with physicians ....



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