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Symptoms of Schizophrenia and Comments from Patients

2004). this symptom is sufficient for a diagnosis (HealthyPlace.com). Schizophrenia is treated with both drugs and therapeutic i...

Description and Diagnostics of Diabetes Mellitus

"a heterogeneous disorder characterized by 2 pathogenic defects, impaired insulin secretion and insulin resistance. The resultant ...

Diagnostic Testing in an AIDS Analysis

rather than late (Poznansky et al, 1995). To determine if this was the case, researchers compared 97 newly diagnosed HIV p...

Overview of Dolphin Therapy

dolphins could provide a piece to a perplexing medical puzzle that has long been missing. They can, these dolphin aficionados mai...

Overview of Heroin

by one study as 16.3 percent but by 1992 this figure purportedly had dropped to 5.3 percent (McCaffrey, 1998). Markon and...

U.S. Hazardous Waste Facilities and Historical, Archaeological, and Cultural Information

problem stems from the fact that polluted water flows directly into the Apalachicola Bay from other sources, rendering the bay def...

Evaluations of Biopsychosocial and Biomedical Health Models

true medical condition. The approach is taken even further by Thomas Szasz where any mental condition is not seen as a true medi...

Tumors of the Brain

Overall, there are two types of brain tumors - these are primary brain tumors that begin in the brain itself, and metastic brain t...

Manifestation Differences and Dyslexia

between 5% and 15% of all Americans (Health & Medicine Week, 2004). Padget has given a good definition of the condition, which it ...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

to: "weakness, paralysis, sensory disturbances, pseudoseizures, and involuntary movements such as tremors. Symptoms more often af...

A Depression Case Study

Inventory (BDI) 27, Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) 15, and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS 15). The student has sought out thera...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

Additionally, both disorders can be hereditary, but environment can also play a factor. Both disorders are affective disorders of ...

Children and Elective Mutism

condition in which children dont speak because they dont want to (Leung and Kao, 1999). Those with elective mutism will speak when...

Overview of Psychogenic Shock

what accompanies significant pain ("Shock," 2004). From the loss of a loved one to a car accident to the discovery that ones spous...

Depression and Assessing the Benefits of Pharmacotherapy and Psychoanalysis

to be a disease of the insane, depression has finally been recognized for the debilitating and emotionally unbalancing illness it ...

Contrasts Between Culture and Medical Science in The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

experience, particularly that immigrant experience as it occurs within the modern medical environment, revolves around cultural un...

Growth Factors and Parkinson's Disease

to receptors that are on the surface of nerves (Pressman, 2004). What happens then is that they are transported to the cell body t...

Rights, Empowerment, and Social Work Legislation

Rights The concept of human rights have been a part of discussions on ethics and the ethical treatment of many different populati...

Managing and Treating Sexual Offenders

reentry of certain criminal populations into the general society. When sexual abusers, for example, are reintroduced into society...

Research Proposal on the Effectiveness of Treating Lower Back Pain with Acupuncture

participants in the study required some kind of practitioner response as a result of their lower back pain. The second assumption...

Language Impairment and Broca Aphasia

or language disorder that prevents them form expressing themselves or limits their ability to understand what other are telling th...

Pessimism of Sigmund Freud on Alcoholics and Psychoanalysis

seek to regress to an infantile state where there is no clear differentiation between fantasy and reality, so alcoholism is theref...

Nail-biting: CBT as a therapeutic option

The problem of fingernail and cuticle biting in response to anxiety-provoking situations or stimuli has been noted in the current ...

Literature Review on Borderline Personality Disorder

order to make a diagnosis of BPD, the client should demonstrate behavior that indicates five or more of these characteristics (Pal...

Biographical Sketch of Bipolar Disorder

(APA, 2003) and "These rates are consistent across diverse cultures and ethnic groups" (APA, 2003). The rate for bipolar II is abo...

Broken Leg Healing

because many bone-breaking accidents also can involve damage to the knee. The leg will be X-rayed both for diagnosis and confirma...

Critiquing the Research Approach of Measuring Children's Anger

the most common reasons for the referral of children to psychological and psychiatric services. Seventy-five percent of the child...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Drug Therapies

of critiques of drug therapy versus the use of other treatment measures are the central themes of this paper. Background of Psych...

Etiology of School Age Children's Seizure Disorder

developing epilepsy; the changes increases to three percent at seventy-five years of age. The typical nature of epilepsy is to st...

General Overview of Depression

is part of their personality ("All About"). Bipolar disorder, unlike ordinary depression, is when a person swings between periods...