.... become forgetful, depression may set in, personality may change, and simple tasks become difficult. The dementia interferes with normal functions. Memory failure was once thought to be a normal process of aging, but studies of the elderly indicate that it is the result of some disease process. In fact the symptoms of were dismissed as normal consequences of human aging. After that, in the 1980's, AD came to be recognized as the most common cause of intellectual deterioration in the elderly and the middle-aged. Now it is also recognized as the major single cause of senility, or senile dementia. Hardly a month goes by without the discovery of a new gene, protein, or ....

.... too afraid to seek them out. Anxieties can be simple things like being nervous before a test, but can also be large things like being afraid to go out in public. One woman said “When I went grocery shopping I would worry that people were watching me. Sometimes I would have to leave the store or I’d choose times to shop when there were not as many people there.” Problems such as this are the serious effects can have on you. It becomes serious when you have to start changing your lifestyle to avoid your anxieties. can take the form of many situations. For example. another woman overheard at her work that someone had a bad odor. The woman assumed it was her, ....

.... about the potentially deadly disease of anorexia. This research is not only to inform myself about anorexia, but also to inform myself about the knowledge or lack thereof that young people have about the disease. Most people believe that anorexia is mainly a young females' disease. This is not necessarily true. In fact, studies within the past few years show that male anorexia is about as widespread as in females. In actuality, 80 percent of the people diagnosed with anorexia over the age of 45 are males(Heywood, 1996). Other misconceptions are that anorexia is only common with younger people and that anorexia is not a real disease at all, just a staple of obsessive te ....

.... causes severe pain with movement of the joint, often limiting the movement of the affected area. Bursitis commonly strikes in the shoulders, elbows, knees, pelvis, hips or Achilles tendons. Bursitis can affect nearly anyone for any number of reasons. It affects mainly adults both male and female. The individuals most at risk are people who engage in excessive and improper stretching and people who are involved heavily in athletic training. Bursitis can be caused by many things. For one, it can be caused by injury or overuse of a joint. Strenuous unfamiliar exercise also can cause Bursitis. Plus, such diseases as gout, arthritis, and chronic infection of a joint can be likely ....

.... carry the sickle cell trait (http://www.medaccess.com/h_ child/sickle/sca_01.htm). This leaves a good chance that the parent with the trait can pass the defect onto offspring although their own health is not harmed. The cause of sickle cell anemia is rather simple but it leaves a life threatening affect. Anyone who carries the inherited trait for sickle cell anemia, but doesn't have the disorder, is actually protected from a severe form of malaria. This helped the children in countries where malaria was a problem, to be able to survive against that disease. What happened to those children? They grew up, had their own children and ended up passing the gene for sickle c ....

.... how biological neural processing may work (He90). Neural networks provide an effective approach for a broad spectrum of applications. Neural networks excel at problems involving patterns, which include pattern mapping, pattern completion, and pattern classification (He95). Neural networks may be applied to translate images into keywords or even translate financial data into financial predictions (Wo96). Neural networks utilize a parallel processing structure that has large numbers of processors and many interconnections between them. These processors are much simpler than typical central processing units (He90). In a neural network, each processor is linked to many of it ....

.... wishes 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 we ....

.... support, not kill and inherit. Every person makes the light of the world brighter. The world needs everyone's power and contribution. It's the power and energy of the elderly, and the strength and will of the ill, that give the world life. The light has become very dim with the crime and corruption in today's world, we can't afford to throw lives away because some think they're meaningless. If we continue to accept the merciless killings and suicides of the helpless but powerful, the light will soon burn out. There will be no energy in the world. and doctor-assisted suicide should not be accepted or allowed by the government and people of the United States. Statistics sh ....