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Caffeine And Its Affects
607 Words - 3 Pages.... allergies, migraines and muscle
tension.
Caffeine stimulates the central nervous system. Its effects range
from mild alertness to heightened anxiety and body tension. Caffeine may
not improve performance of complex tasks; it may even interfere with work.
It shortens reaction time among some users, but its impact on creativity
and other intellectual activities is hard to define.
Caffeine can be habit-forming. Some regular users who give it up
may experience withdrawal symptoms twelve to sixteen hours after the last
dose, such as: drowsiness, headaches, lethargy, irritability, disinterest
in work, depression, occasional nausea and vomiting.
How caffeine affects you ....
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Abnormal Psychology: Mental Disorders
2495 Words - 10 Pages.... already present symptoms worse. some doctors feel that
Schizophrenia might be the result of a slow acting virus since the symptoms can
be delayed many years after the first infection. Another possible cause for the
disorder is a genetic disposition. This has yet to be proven but it is thought
of as a likely cause since children who have a parent with the disorder have a
ten times greater chance of developing the illness than children who have
abnormal parents. If both parents have the disorder the chance of their off
spring having the disorder jumps to forty times that of of an off spring with
normal parents. Some times as equally as important as finding what c ....
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Euthanasia And The Moral Right To Die
1161 Words - 5 Pages.... would ring for a nurse, and ask for the pain-killer. The third night of this routine, a terrible thought occurred to me. If Jack were a dog, I thought, what would be done to him? The answer was obvious: the pound, and the chloroform. No human being with a spark of pity could let a living thing suffer so, to no good end"( Rachels 13). The experience of Stewart Alsop, a respected journalist, with his terminally ill friend Jack, forces us to ask why a dying dog is entitled to more humane treatment than a human in the same condition.
Finding a humane and sensible approach to treating the terminally ill has become a hotly debated topic in recent years. One approach to this problem ....
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Smoking
234 Words - 1 Pages.... million people in the U.S. quit in the year following the
1964 surgeon general's report. The proportion of males who smoke decreased from
more than 60 percent to about 25 percent; however, the percentage of women who
smoke cigarettes increased. Smoking also became more prevalent among young
adults, with about 29 percent of high school seniors admitting to smoking in
1975; but by 1987 this proportion decreased to 18.7 percent. There are programs
that exist to help smokers quit. Some involve group support, whereas others use
aversive techniques in which participants smoke many cigarettes rapidly to the
point of becoming sick of them.
More than 30 million persons in the U.S. s ....
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Adolescence
1641 Words - 6 Pages.... an adolescent
subculture. As a result of this prolonged transitional stage a variety of
problems and concerns specifically associated with this age group have developed.
Psychologists single out four areas that especially touch upon adolescent
behavior and development: physiological change and growth; cognitive, or mental
development; identity, or personality formation; and parent-adolescent
relations.
Physiological Change:
Between the ages of 9 and 15, almost all young people undergo a rapid
series of physiological changes, known as the adolescent growth spurt. These
hormonal changes include an acceleration in the body's growth rate; the
development of pubic hair; ....
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Rabies
322 Words - 2 Pages.... enter bat infested caves can get rabies by breathing in the aerosols created by bats. Two suck caves have been reported in Texas. There are no know caves in NJ that have conditions similar to the cave in Texas where the 2 individuals developed rabies.
Treatment
There is no known effective treatment for rabies once the symptoms of the illness have developed.
After individual consideration in certain cases a decision may be made to administer rabies vaccine to prevent the development of rabies.
What Can Be Done to Prevent Rabies?
Since there is no treatment for rabies the major emphasis is am preventing it. Below is a list to some ways of limiting the spread of rabies: ....
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People Vs. The Tobacco Industry
1038 Words - 4 Pages.... than one way for the price of smoking. The question is “What is being done to decrease the number of smokers, complications, and deaths?”
People start smoking for their individual reasons. Some common reasons why a person may start smoking may be due to stress, peer pressure, or because the person wants to change his social status. The tobacco industry deceives people with their ads implying that cigarettes can relieve stress, help fit in, and even change the social status of men, women, and teens. A camel smoking a cigarette, wearing a leather jacket, with several beautiful ladies surrounding him portrays that smoking is for tough and outgoing ladies’ men. Models a ....
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Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
1955 Words - 8 Pages.... questions or behaviors. What are their rituals about?
There are several possible ways to list symptoms of OCD. All sources agree that
the most common preoccupations are dirt (washing, germs, touching), checking for
safety or closed spaces (closets, doors, drawers, appliances, light switches),
and thoughts, often thoughts about unacceptable violent, sexual, or crude
behavior.
When the thoughts and rituals of OCD are intense, the victim's work and
home life disintigrate. Obsessions are persistant, senseless, worrisome, and
often times, embarrassing, or frightening thoughts that repeat over and over in
the mind in an endless loop. The automatic nature of these recurant thoug ....
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