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Ssubstance Abuse

Drug addiction and substance abuse are very complex conditions. The more prolonged they are, the more damage they do to the brain’...

Lessons From Phineas Gage

lobe (Johnson, 2009). The frontal lobe is comprised of two parts, the anterior also called the prefrontal cortex controls higher o...

Differences In The Way A Mammalian Cell And Yeast Cells Coordinate Cell Growth And Cell-Cycle Progression

cells, which means that there must be check points as there is a constant average size in a yeast cell population, if this were no...

Brain Development

to each other (BrainWonders, 2001). The connections are best described as electrical impulses that move down the nerve cell and th...

Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

Defining Physiological Psychology

Banduras (1986) theory also addresses gender issues and how they span a significant range of behavioral concerns based upon perfor...

Defining Death

flawed and inherently contradictory. This seems accurate to this writer. There will always be inconsistencies and there will never...

Brain Response/Males & Aggression

et al, 2006). In this study, it was found that girls at every age demonstrated "more self-regulated, committed compliance and less...

Methamphetamines

been increased clandestine production. Abusers are predominantly White, lower middle- income, high-school educated, young adults ...

Suicidality and Depression in Young Children

Given that serious depression too often leads to suicide, it is a problem that simply cannot be ignored. Numerous factors enter i...

Cell Structure Aspects and Current Research

In ten pages cell structure aspects are examined in terms of current research and include a consideration of nerve cells, cell div...

Research on Stem Cells

This essay discusses several aspects of stem cells and stem cell research beginning with what are stem cells and why are they so i...

The Case Against Animal Cruelty

(Vollum, Buffington-Vollum and Longmire 209). It has been argued that animals, in their own right, are worthy of consideration and...

“What educators need to know about abused children with disabilities”

abused often become abusers themselves. Abuse also lessens the chances a child has in terms of educational attainment. It can re...

Ecuador and Texaco

including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...

Human Brain and Hemispheric Specialization

In six pages this report considers human brain studies with the focus of hemispheric specialization and the importance of understa...

Causes and Types of Amnesia

In twelve pages the types and brain conditions causing amnesia are first discussed with a description of how memory and the brain ...

How Minds Can Change as We Age

certain functions. What is different between todays research and that of decades ago is that scientists now believe that a person ...

Books on the Mind Annotations

shirt while the other hand unbuttons it. The last section of the book deals with speculation about future discoveries relative to ...

Reviews of Five Book Annotations

are numerous conditions and realities that Gardner (2000) examines and in one section, "The Forces that Will Remake Schools," he n...

Test Design Linking Amygdale and Human Fear Emotion

adjustments in the magnetic properties that are blood-oxygen dependant (Gabrieli, 2005). When the brain is activated by a stimulu...

3 Brain Function Book Reviews

In nine pages this paper presents an annotated bibliography and review of Synaptic Self, A User's Guide to the Brain, and The Prim...

Cell Phones and Cancer: Examining Sources of Information

that has been devoted to it over the years, we still do not know what causes cancer. We know what cancer is and in most situation...

The Case of Phineas Cage

it also has an effect on a persons personality. The posterior or back of the lobe is comprised of pre-motor and motor areas (Johns...

Overview of Proteanaceous Infectious Particles or Prions

In five pages this paper discusses the replication of prion proteins that are responsible for brain cell degeneration. Four sourc...

Structure of the Brain and Alzheimer's Disease Impact

In five pages this research paper examines how Alzheimer's Disease influences the patients' brain cells and structure. Eight sour...

Cell Phone and Brain Cancer Connection?

In twelve pages this paper studies medical research to conclude that brain cancer is not caused by cell phone usage. Eight source...

Recovering from Brain Damage

The writer argues that brain injury is more common than is generally believed, and examines the incidence of such injury, the type...

Medical Ethical Dilemma - Stem Cell Research

totipotent cells, which becomes the placenta and inside the blastocyst are numerous embryonic stem cells (Sumanas, Inc., 2007). It...

Stem Cell Research/Not an Ethical Issue

equivalent. Stem cells are extracted while the embryo is, as yet, an undifferentiated ball of microscopic cells referred to as a b...