Papers on Health and Medicine
Schizophrenia
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(Barry 13).” It was believed that a social breakdown syndrome would develop in
chronically mentally ill persons who were institutionalized. The
characteristics of this syndrome were submission to authority, withdrawal, lack
of initiative, and excessive dependence on the institution.
While deinstitutionalization was kindhearted in its primary logic, the
actual execution of the concept has been greatly undermined by the lack of good
community alternatives. At this time a large amount of the individuals using
community mental health treatment services are the homeless. Nearly half of the
homeless are chronically mental i .....
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Dreams
Words: 2380 - Pages: 9.... a period of more than
seventy years (Many of Freud's other theories have been disputed in recent
years).
Freud reportedly admired Aristotle's assertion that dreaming is the
activity of the mind during sleep (Fine, 1973). It was perhaps the use of
the term activity that Freud most appreciated in this brief definition for,
as his understanding of the dynamics of dreaming increased, so did the
impression of ceaseless mental activity differing in quality from that of
ordinary waking life (Fine, 1973). In fact, the quality of mental activity
during sleep differed so radically from what we take to be the essence of
mental functioning that Freud .....
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Autonomy Vs. Paternalism In Mental Health Treatment
Words: 2813 - Pages: 11.... marked by power and control issues.
"Consumers/ex-patients often report a feeling of "invisibility"; they sense that
their views and desires do not matter (Carling, 1995, p.79 )."
The commission's report (1995) spoke of several incidences where Mr. Gordon
eluded to his desire for autonomy. Mr. Gordon did not wish to live in a
supervised setting. Mr. Gordon did not wish to attend group day treatment
settings. Mr. Gordon did not wish to use medication in the treatment of his
mental health disorder. Without medication his behavior was deemed unacceptable
and did not permit him the opportunity to have any of these choices. "Choice is
a .....
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Sleep Apnea
Words: 1272 - Pages: 5.... 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
Psychophysiological Study of Sleep (APSS), Association of Sleep Disorder Centers
(ASDC), and the American Psychiatric Associati .....
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Neural Networks
Words: 2975 - Pages: 11.... 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 its neighbors so that there are
many more interconnections than processors. The power of the neural network
lies in .....
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Plagues And Diseases
Words: 2566 - Pages: 10.... So, the question is, if
these events happened once, why can't they happen again?
Let us take a look at the most horrible, so far, of the plagues: The
Black Death. It took Europe by storm from approximately 1345 to 1361. It would
also make small comebacks throughout the next 400 years, but never like it did
the first time. It also reached into Africa, China, Russia, and the
Scandinavian countries. It was truly a worldwide pandemic. But, it has a
secondary effect that not many people are aware of. The colonies of Greenland,
settled by the Vikings, were stricken by the plague and they soon disappeared.
It is known that these colonie .....
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Brain Function
Words: 573 - Pages: 3.... human body.
Right and left brain’s have distinctly different ways of looking the world. The left brain controls the right side of the body, even the eye what you see from the right eye goes to left brain. But this function is reversed for left-handed people. Left brain mostly focus on the logical analytical, judgment and verbal. The right side of the brain control the left side of the body, this brain focus more on creative, intuitive, it is concerned more with the visual and emotional side of the life.
When reading left brain is sensibly making connection and analyzing the meaning of the world, the syntax and other complex relation sh .....
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Clinical Chemistry Tests In Medicine
Words: 2863 - Pages: 11.... of ammonia. In the liver, the ammonia is quickly converted to
urea, which is relatively nontoxic, and is then released into the bloodstream.
In the blood, it is readily removed through the kidneys and excreted in the
urine. Any disease or condition that reduces glomerular filtration or increases
protein catabolism results in elevated BUN levels.
Creatinine is another indicator of kidney function. Creatinine is a
waste product derived from creatine. It is freely filtered by the glomerulus
and blood levels are useful for estimating glomerular filtration rate. Muscle
tissue contains phosphocreatinine which is converted to creatinine by .....
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Beauty
Words: 860 - Pages: 4.... Gangestead and Randy Thornhill measured the
symmetry of hundreds of men and women in college. They also asked them to
complete a personal confidential survey that gave information on their health
and sex lives. What they found was that the men and women with better symmetry
had started having sex 3-4 years before the people with average symmetry.
Gangestead and Thornhill also completed another survey involving women's
responses to symmetrical men and men with average symmetry. The results were as
expected. The women with symmetrical partners responded twice as much compared
to the women with men having average symmetry. The rate of co .....
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Indian Healing Beliefs
Words: 1010 - Pages: 4.... to provide several general statements about traditions;
medicine among American Indians that can be used as guidelines in understa
nding tribal beliefs about illness and healing. Most tribes have the
beliefs that their medicine people have “extra” that others don't. This
power comes from varied sources: a visionary experience that leads one into
the study of medicine, or being born into a family that includes
generations of medicine people. Many tribes have both men and women
medicine people, but some tribes have only medicine women. Many medicine
people have a specialty, such as herbalist, bone setter, midwife, or
counselor. The Hop .....
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