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Use of Lithium Within The Field of Psycho-Pharmacology

notes that another five percent are victims of occasional despondency, with one of every six people succumbing to a "serious, or m...

Overview of Behavioral Disorders

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

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 Hemoglobinopathies and Hemoglobin Electrophoresis

elbow, with the help of an elasticised band placed around the upper arm in order to restrict blood supply and make collection easi...

Overview of Conversion Disorder

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

Alcoholics and ADHD

Disorders (DSM-IV) of the American Psychiatric Association outlines the criteria for making a diagnosis of ADHD (Wilens, 1998). Ac...

Impact of Bulimia

a result, bulimics tend to go through cycles of bingeing and purging repeatedly. Overview of the Research In cases of bulimia ...

Social Psychology and Application of Aggression Theories

et al, 1990). In the clinical setting, the two most commonly displayed behavior disorders are grouped under the heading of disr...

Special Education and ADHD

programming has become a scapegoat for traditional educators. Perhaps one of the most notable problems related to the onset of ...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Panic Disorder and Marriage Therapy

for no real reason. Symptoms can include: Trembling...

Relationship Between Language-Based And Learning Disabilities

Beyond that, however, is the fact that any student who is struggling with language will not be able to read and write as well as a...

Research Design To Test The Hypothesis That There Is An Inverse Relationship Between Memory Recovery Of Child Sexual Abuse And The Development Of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

by using standard PTSD models there is a limiting of the understanding of the conditions that are suffered and that there is the ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome And The Counting Method

upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...

Attachment And Separation

for their future relationships and interactions (Pendry, 1998; Practice Notes, 1997). There are three conditions for attachment de...

Interventions For Aggressive Preschool-Age Children

out of them but that is not true. Studies consistently demonstrate that at least half of the children exhibiting aggressive behavi...

ADHD: Legitimate Medical Diagnosis or Socially Constructed Disorder? - Ethical Concerns

and school- or community-level factors associated with receiving a diagnosis of ADHD" According to recent...

Mental Retardation & Psychopathology

mental illness. One area of practice where this factor in Christian psychiatric practice may prove effective is in regards to the...

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

of the condition. In the film, he was so obsessed with germs, he brought plasticware to a diner everyday instead of using ordinary...

Parenting Styles And Attachment

parents provide the kind of nurturing and care the baby needs, the five senses are positively stimulated" (Smith, no date). Pare...

Harris & Weiss/Topics in Autism

the "Yu Family," with parents Harold and Grace. Eddie is their oldest child. Eddie is such a "good" baby, demanding little attenti...

Neurosis and Psychosis (Overview)

Neurosis," 2007). Many are familiar with anxiety as it is common in society in addition to depression. OCD is obsessive compulsive...

Bone Density And Dieting: Professional

track and cross-country runners, that physicians need to take note of amenorrhea and/or a history of stress fracture, and have sus...

Bipolar Disorder

their moods tend to swing between extreme poles of emotion. A depressive episode is characterized by symptoms such as depressed mo...

How Does ADHD Affect Learning

impossible for this individual to learn or achieve in school. This is not because they are not intelligent enough to do so, it is ...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Vets with PTSD

with sudden flashbacks intruding on thoughts (Fagan and Freme, 2004). Other symptoms include: an exaggerated startle reflex, sleep...

Nutrition Concerns in AIDS

at best, death usually occurs within a few months to a few years after the virus attack on the human system. Maintaining proper n...

Effects of PTSD on Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Red Convertible,’ Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Soldier’s Home,’ and Tim O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’

are particularly harrowing in soldiers that were at some point POWs (Dikel et al 69). Furthermore, the age of the traumatized per...

The Pathophysiology of ADHD

Rubia, Smith, Brammer, Toone, and Taylor (2005) report on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate t...