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The Genetic Basis of Anxiety Disorders

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

Alcoholism and Children of Alcoholics

of alcoholics. To prove that children of alcoholics are more likely to physiologically be alcoholic themselves provides added supp...

Brook and Tseng's Research on the Correlation Between Negativity and Anger in Toddlers and Drug Use by Parents

regard to how that behavior impacted their child. Under the third hypothesis, the interdependent model hypothesis, parental perso...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Genetic Testing for Congenital Anomalies

based on the results?" (Pinsky, et al, 2001, p. 168). In the case of breast cancer, once a mutation that can cause cancer has be...

Asthma: A Research Proposal

chests as well as wheezing and coughing. The physiological reasons for these responses include spasms in the smooth muscle tissu...

The Prevalence of Seasonal Affective Disorder in the Nordic Countries

the increased distance from the equator. In Studies in North America Rosenthal (1983) observed a prevalence in the winter of 1.4%...

Watson’s DNA

this puzzle. While the article appears overall to be accurate, in that the author quotes reliable sources, Begley (2007) does not ...

Prevention And Treatment Programs For Alcohol Abuse

prevention of alcohol abuse from a community perspective has made Sacramento, California a precedent setting city whereby extended...

MANAGING CHANGE AND CHAOS

management will impact not only the ophthalmic practice, but this practices position in relationship to the industry. The Ophthalm...

The Biological Bases of Behavior

parents have a heightened probability of developing alcoholism than do children of nonalcoholic parents (Grucza and Bierut 172). ...

Genetic Research and Social Issues

genetic mapping and gene sequencing (Pelletier and Dorval, 2004). As a result of these new genetic engineering techniques, the st...

Discussion of Bioethics Involving Parents and Controlling an Unborn Child's Genetic Composition

in essence a mistake. The human genome mapping can now identify specifically which genes carry which genetic disorders; scientist...

Criminal Behavior and Genetics

severe form of antisocial behavior" (Liu, 2004, p. 93). Externalizing behavior can also include hyperactivity, and many hyperacti...

An Article on the Disclosure of Genetic Test Results Critiqued

receiving this news may encounter difficulty forming family members due to the implications of such results. As disclosing this g...

Critique of "Does Race Exist?"

groups on the basis of at least 60 Alu polymorphisms, but only narrowly enough to identify their continent of origin. They report...

Gender And Socialization: Nature Or Nurture?

in the field of child development have consistently found that this incongruous approach parents have toward their children begins...

Prisoners: Lower Moral Development

criminology, Lombroso recognized similarities between humans and rodents that led him to believe how people can, indeed, exhibit c...

Faith & Science/Human Need for Religion

note that he differentiates between "religion" and "spirituality." Hamer maintains that "spirituality is genetic, while religion i...

Understanding Sickle Cell Anemia

and intermittent episodes of vascular occlusion causing both acute and chronic pain. It is estimated that 70,000 Americans of diff...

Professional Basketball Physical Performance and Genetic Predisposition

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the NBA in a consideration of whether physical performance is influenced by genetic predisp...

Cross Functional Counseling and Factors That Are Effective

(Schrag, 1995; Hunt, Soto, Maier & Doering, 2003). Nelson (2002) takes this one step further by pointing to a body of resea...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Unborn Babies, Genetic Defects, and Parents' Right to Know

with it a great deal of uncertainty and guilt. Needless to say, most men and women who undertake abortions do not do so lightly o...

Chapter Twelve of Visions by Michio Kaku

for the new research that could be done. Scientists are stating that it is now possible to grow tissues that will not trigger the ...

Sex Offending Explained

of sex crimes, however. Sexual violence often targets children as well (Nester, 1998). The issues surrounding child abuse alone ...

An Alcoholism Overview

and forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a varie...

Human Nature and Selfishness

that mankind is hardwired for selfishness and are a slave to these drives whether we understand or are cognizant of them in the fi...

The Phenomenon Known as Ageing

increased number of T cells with identical phenotypes which are found in the elderly....

Effects and Treatment of Phenylketonuria

(Erlandsen, Patch, Gamez, Straub, and Stevens 385). Some four hundred mutations, in fact, are currently linked to Phenylketonuria...