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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...

Phantoms in the Brain and Why Do They Act That Way? Annotated Book Reviews

tyrannize their teachers" (Walsh; Bennet, 2005; 1). They then indicate that adolescence is the time between childhood and adulthoo...

Brain Changes Relating to Alzheimer's Disease

such as Lewy body disease, whereas others are of the opinion that all subtypes are variants of the same standard form of the condi...

The Impacts of Radiation on the Brain

excitability determined from the total subject population. Slide 4: Verbal Hypothesis Statements Subjects exposed to cell phone...

Apple as a Religion

up their brand. This is true for the Apple Company in general. The introduction of iPod gadget, iTunes, iPhone and iPad all supp...

The Perception of the Senses

tastes which are described appear to be experienced in similar ways. For example, those who can taste PCT1 and PROP2 all describe ...

Religious Experience and the Brain

understandings, such as the idea that "the role of personal beliefs, expectations and experiences may interject bias into the inte...

Traumatic Brain Injury, Remediation

to any injury to the head that impairs subsequent brain functioning. While mild TBI can appear to have left the individual unimpai...

Benefits of Acquiring Another Language

Recent research has found that parts of the brain grow when adults learn another language, which would make this endeavor very hel...

What Causes Birth Defects

A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects/congenital abnormalities. It could also related to the pregnant woman bein...

To Live or Not to Live? and Coma

This paper deals with the issue of traumatic brain injury and coma, which includes the trauma of families facing the decision as t...

Self-Medication and Another Model

This paper focuses on a video case study of a young woman who is an alcoholic and drug addict. The paper describes what was observ...

Disability and Information Processing

This research paper focuses on the topic of information processing and how it is relevant to dyslexia and traumatic brain injury. ...

Dementia

emotional (limbic) memories are affected, and the last group of memories to be affected as the "motor or more reptilian memories,"...

Understanding Paranoid Schizophrenia Through "A Beautiful Mind"

- to reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accompl...

Gender Roles in American Culture

beyond the domestic sphere into virtually every profession and job category from which they were once barred, they have had to con...

My Head Says Yes But My Heart Says No Cognitive And Affective Attraction As A Function Of Similarity To The Ideal Self by Herbst et al

of repulsion" (). Many social psychologists would readily agree that human interaction is always representational of joint...

Emergence The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson

in the dark, far underground, and has nothing to do with the foraging and fighting that is part of the colonys existence. A ant co...

Acquired Brain Injury and Employment

and the possible consequences of brain trauma. While basically positive, Ducker does not attempt to minimize the severity of that ...

Reviews of Articles on the Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

(Hammond et al, 2004). Looking at the Memory and Problem Solving items, 34 percent improved, 48 percent did not change in either d...

The Brain, Loss of Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease

In this research paper consisting of nine pages the possible causes of progressive senile dementia or Alzheimer's symptoms are dis...

Brawn and Brains in 'The Catbird' Seat' by James Thurber

In eight pages this paper examines the contrasting imagery of sexuality and athletic prowess in this short story by James Thurber....

The Relationship among Health, Behavior and the Brain

The writer explores the difference between psychological and neurological conditions. The writer uses a comparison between anxiety...

Traumatic Brain Injuries Overview

TBI is considered in an overview consisting of five pages that includes term definition, characteristics, causation, prevalence, e...

Infant Brain Development And Early Experiences

was used to assess language development. Caregivers completed the Child Behavior Checklist to obtain information regarding problem...

Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff

the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...

"Bullet In The Brain" And "The Lottery" Violence

was the gladiatorial combat of hunting, otherwise called the venatio. Once gathered up from different parts of the Roman empire t...

Brain-Body

directly related to how strong that memory will be (Klein and Thorne, 2007). He offered a cell-assembly model for memory and propo...

Brain Research and Ethics

to neuron across "wires" called synapses (Ingram 14). The healthier the synapses, the better the brain works. However, as human be...

Acquired Brain Injury Patients and PT

every one-thousand children. Some forty-one thousand children aged five to fourteen in the U.S. alone are inflicted with this con...