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Studies in OCD

OCD. However, the authors do note that a previous study did indicate beneficial results, thus indicating there may be possibilitie...

Overview of Sleep Apnea

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

Psychological Overview of Depression and Anxiety

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

Behavioral Disorders in Students and the Value of Early Identification and Intervention

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

The Impact of Adult ADD/ADHD on Education

diagnosis of ADD is an extremely complex process, which is complicated by the fact that the symptoms are very similar to other emo...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

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

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...

Overview and Treatment of Pain Disorders

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

ADHD and ADD and School Compulsory Medication

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

Bone Disorder Osteomalacia

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

Literature Relevant to Adolescent Developmental Disorders

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

An Article on ADD Critiqued

suffered frontal lobe damage are often misdiagnosed as having ADD, as the symptoms tend to mimic each other (Shelley-Tremblay et a...

Murderous Children and Poor Parenting

this concept, and in his attachment theory, he explained, "Evidence is accumulating that human beings of all ages are happiest an...

Physician's Role and Dementia

attributed to the increased sophistication of the diagnostic methodologies, technology, and increased understanding. WHY IS CONDI...

New Medications for Bipolar Disorder/A Research Proposal

bipolar disorder will participate in this study. Diagnostic procedures will include DSM-IV multiaxial evaluation, physical examina...

Symptoms Prior to Diagnosing Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder

around 8 or 9 oclock at night, depending on their age. So they have a lot of trouble getting to sleep, and there is a tendency fo...

Causes and Effects of Incest

marriage of close relatives is to prevent inbreeding, or consanguinity. The reasoning behind such prohibitions revolve around the...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

abnormally" (The National Marfan Foundation, 2005). Physicians who followed also noted similar problems in other patients which al...

Opposing Ritalin Prescription

very controversial and many say that children are "doped" which is a chemical alternative to treating the real problem ("Britain" ...

A Trio of Perspectives on Antisocial Personality Disorder

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

New World Disorder by Todorov

the Bush regime as "of the original Trotskyist and Marxist formation", a somewhat surprising observation perhaps in view of the lo...

Children and Causes of ADHD

a correlation of Attention Deficit Disorder with differences in thyroid hormone receptors. Researchers have found "a small subset...

Overview of OCD

plans in place which have proven themselves useful for normalizing the behavior and thought patterns of OCD individuals. These tr...

The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

Bouton, Mineka and Barlow (2001, 4) comment: "Anxiety, an anticipatory emotional state that functions to...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'Cask of Amontillado' and Narcissism

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...

An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison

them from the depths of depression, it also "deadens" the maniac side Of course, Jamison balances her account of the exhilaration ...

Treatment and Rehabilitation of Female Offenders

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

Homework, Students, and ADD/ADHD

Students attempt to complete their homework in a very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Bu...

Overview of Eating Disorders

In twenty pages eating disorders are examined in terms of etiology, presentation, treatment, research, and preventive measures wit...

A.E. Kazdin's 'Conduct Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence'

Methodology Kazdin all but dismisses the effectiveness of pharmacotherapeutic intervention, contending that there is...