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Overview of Eating Disorders

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

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...

Physician's Role and Dementia

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

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...

Children and Causes of ADHD

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

Causes and Effects of Incest

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

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...

Genetic Disorder Marfan Syndrome

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

Bipolar Disorder Overview

or depression. It usually begins, or shows initial signs, during adolescence or early adulthood. It can, however, start in ear...

3 Theorists on Psychological Disorders

Three Perspectives: 10 pages in length. This paper examines the theories and treatments of psychological disorders as viewed by t...

An Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

demonize others. Most share an impulsive nature but generally tend to differ in their style of emotional response. Ironically, t...

War, Memory, and PTSD

that might not necessarily be equated with CIS. However, other more telling symptoms like chest pain, weakness, dizziness, vomiti...

Borderline Personality Disorder and Social Perspectives

BPD as a result of emergency room visits following suicidal attempts. The theoretical basis and etiology of the disorder is relat...

Conduct Disorder

of garnering information. In other words, incoming information is modified and transformed in the mind into certain data structur...

Conduct Disorder from 2 Perspectives

cruel to people * has been physically cruel to animals * has stolen while confronting a victim (e.g., mugging, purse snatching, ...

Article on the Risks Associated with Eating Disorders and the Effects of Family Environment and Gender Roles

suffering from them lack the capacity to understand the grave nature of the effects, but most theorists agree that anorexia nervos...

The Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in the Treatment of Panic Attacks

completely harmless. In many ways a panic attack is reminiscent of the fight-or-flight response which arises in frightening situat...

'Obsessive' Sherlock Holmes

In five pages this paper discusses if maybe Sherlock Holmes had some obsessive compulsive psychological disorders. Three sources ...

DSM IV and Characters in the Film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

make some conclusions. The DSM-IV diagnostic lists several observable traits usually pertaining to those experiencing a manic epi...

Sexuality and Gender Dichotomy Deconstruction

the homosexual and heterosexual dichotomy gained acceptance as both sexuality and personal identity became central to our culture"...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Treatment of Mental Illness

more common in boys than girls (Silka and Hauser, 1997). Determining the cause of retardation can be difficult and hard to pinpoin...

Literature Review of Psychosocial Interventions

In five pages this literature review considers noninvasive treatment of learning disorders, mental retardation, and mental illness...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

Overview of Delusional Misidentification

have surgery or wear masks to look like another. The film Face Off demonstrates how someone could be mistaken for another individu...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Psychological Conditions

of waves. Stevensons grandfather was Britains greatest builder of lighthouses. Since his childhood Stevenson suffered from tubercu...

Depression and PTSD Treatment

depression disorder is the post partum depression that often results after a woman has given birth. Post Traumatic Stress Disor...

Long Term Effects of Ritalin in Treating ADHD

In six pages this paper discusses Attention Deficit Disorder and the popular treatment choice of Ritalin in a consideration of eff...

Symptoms and Treatment of Panic Disorder

In four pages this paper examines panic disorder in a description of various symptoms and considers possible effective treatment a...

Males vs. Females and Anorexia Nervosa

In a paper consisting of five pages males and females are compared in terms of the implications and manifestations of anorexia ner...

Perfectionism and the Anxiety Component

In nine pages this paper argues that the individual desire for perfectionism leads to anxiety and manifests itself in eating disor...