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Bias and Sensory Perception

In eight pages this paper discusses cultural, racial, and physiological process biases as they influence sensory perception. Eigh...

Overview of Cranial Osteopathy

the physiological versus psychosomatic basis for results, etc. In essence, Osteopathy is a method of physiological healing ...

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...

Sleep's Physiological Stages

individuals begins a backward progression from stage 4 through stage 2 (Appling, 1997). It is during this period that the sleeper...

Cocaine Use by Teens, Causes and Effects

more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...

Theoretical, Social, and Physiological Overview of Epilepsy

milder cases, a moderate amount of shaking may occur while the individual experiences a varied degree of disorientation and confus...

Terrorists' Interrogation

several of them were personally subjected to in the waning days of Vietnam? Or should interrogators acknowledge above all that th...

Terminally Ill Patients and Nursing Care

the needs of the dying and her work indicates that there are times when the most meaningful communication that a nurse can offer i...

Stress and Its Effects

In seven pages this literature review incorporates the hierarchy of needs theory of Abraham Maslow in an examination of stress and...

Children and Causes of ADHD

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

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

Women and Alcohol Abuse Effects

have different physiological responses to alcohol (Blume, 1990). Some important issues for women are that alcohol dependency can ...

The First 24 Hours in Treating the Closed Fracture

is first the formation of hematoma at the injury site: the bleeding into the site allows the appropriate cells to be carried to th...

AIDS Adolescents and Nursing Management

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

Australian Plant Life and Adaptation

The Characteristics of Sclerophylls The word scleropohyll literally means, "hard leaves", and this name is derived from t...

Overview of Men's Language and How it Differs

generally assumes an overall demeanor or front which it upholds. Usually, one person exemplifies the idealized goal. This goal is ...

Communication and Perception

from the West in so many respects, including the manner in which different cultures go about conducting business. Following are e...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

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 ...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Human Body and the Impact of Stress

shown to disrupt the metabolism, either speeding it up or slowing it down. There has been recognition of the speeding up of the me...

The Diverse Disease of Dengue, Plague, Malaria, and the West Nile Virus

malaria first received widespread attention when it began to affect returning servicemen that had contracted the disease while se...

Sherpa People and High Altitude Cultures and Physiological Responses

Acute mountain sickness (AMS)is one of the more common illnesses that inflict travelers to high altitudes (Jansen, Krins, and Basn...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

About Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinsons Disease?"). Researchers now think that PD may result from "a combination of genetic susceptibility and exposure to one ...