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symptoms (Zepf, 2003). The "gold standard" for diagnosing sleep apnea is to use polysomnography in a sleep laboratory (Zepf, 2003)...

chest, perhaps indicative of a desire for protection from contact that may be painful. Marge did not shake my hand at the onset o...

their bodies. However, the study also reveals that this concern with appearance does not diminish with age, which is not the resu...

put into place active behavioral modification plans, and require the use of pharmacological support. Understanding treatment opti...

illness. Post traumatic stress syndrome can result from diversity of causes including the horrors of war, sexual abuse, or even s...

and emotionally unbalancing illnesses they truly are to the adolescent population. Studies have pinpointed six cognitive elements...

was missing during the formative years, this search most often leads to a superficial fix time and time again due to the individua...

this basis; however, rather than using the Freudian concepts of ego, superego and id, Berne found the concepts of parent, adult an...

that ultimately triggers the beginning signs of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in children who have suffered a bout of strep ...

the last 30 years (Singleton, 2000). Essentially, making positive diagnosis of dyslexia involves establishing that: 1. The childs ...

strikes first in the medial temporal lobe, memory recall, confusion and forgetfulness are typically the first identifiable symptom...

they are tired, or not getting enough sleep, they can quickly understand how a large number of people in the nation could make a b...

that anxiety is both a physiological and psychological response to stressors. Generally, anxiety is considered a negative emotion...

encouraged. Activities such as these lead to a number of behavioral problems and in some cases can lead to either voluntary or in...

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

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

defense mechanisms (Chapter Sixteen). They are difficult in therapy because their psychic structure is so poorly constructed; it ...

healthy individual this process typically takes about three months from start to completion. This process takes place through mit...

relationship with both the mother and her family and the father and his family (also in relation to property and/or inheritance la...

can take. It is generally considered to be a very slow and progressive form of arthritis and more often associated with people who...

conspiracy to boost the sales of Ritalin (Lan, 2001). The case, Hernandez v. Ciba Geigy alleges that that the APA colluded with th...

Is The American Psychiatric Association has specific guidelines for diagnosing PTSD, specifying that the ordeal which has t...

(i.e., taking more than an hour a day) or when they cause marked distress or significant impairment for the individual (Diagnostic...

bulimia it is helpful to first examine the so-called facts. According to these "facts" eating disorders affect females more frequ...

The Theoretical Base The theoretical base for this test is linked to the belief that behavioral and emotional problems often go h...

ideation is measured on the basis of six specific components found on the Depression scale. Each disorder is matched with respect...

One set of arguments, those that argue that unusual eating behaviors such as anorexia and bulimia are not in actuality eating diso...

disorder, or a family history of anxiety and neuroticism" (Grinage, 2003). The body responds in measurable ways to various stress...

has a direct correlation with unattached disorders, with institutionalized children reflected as being particularly compromised in...

Hurricane Katrina is one of the most recent examples of an event that resulted in PTSD among some victims. Szegedy-Maszak (2005) ...