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Marijuana and its Psychological Effects on the Brain, Sleep, and Stress

debate in recent years regarding the drug marijuana and whether or not its effects on the body and brain are really as dramatic an...

What is Psychology?

sensations, and thoughts (Cherry, 2010). As psychology grew and evolved, a various number of "schools of thought" have arisen to...

Pedophiles and Abnormal Psychology:

as "normal" based upon psychological rather than social margins. Those who land outside of said boundaries are classified as abno...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Coca-Cola And Pepsi Advertising Influences Consumers

rivals since each was founded. Coca-Cola consistently wins greater market share than Pepsi. The two companies have engaged in aggr...

Chang-rae Lee/A Gesture Life

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

The Reality of Ligeia

gorgeous to him, and in particular he adores her huge black eyes (Poe). For her part, when shes dying she clings to his hand and p...

Issues Concerning Prescribed Drugs

physical. And, as stated, taken as directed, there is very low risk of negative side effects of any kind. 3. Anti-psychotics As ...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Parkinson's Disease and PT Treatments

In nine pages this paper discusses how Parkinson's disease symptoms can be alleviated through various types of physical therapy ap...

Motivation To Refrain From Drug Use

though the normal machinery of motivation is no longer functioning; they want the drug even when it no longer gives pleasure (Anon...

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...

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. ...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

Updated Gannt Chart Stop Smoking

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke. The positive health outcome continue each year, s...

Biology as it Relates to Loss of Brain Functions

This 3 page paper provides different examples of how Biology can be used to improve memory function after a brain injury. This pap...

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...

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 ...

The Impacts of Radiation on the Brain

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

Brain Structures and Learning/Memory

systems" (Zola-Morgan & Squire, 1993, p. 347). The amygdala is one of the structures that demonstrates the varied nature of me...

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...

Brain Based Learning Strategies

if a brain is malfunctioning, such a child needs treatment. Yet, for the ordinary child whose brain works quite well, understandin...

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...

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...

Developing Children's Memory by Using Music

planets from the sun for instance memorize this sentence: Men Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes (thus Mercury,...

A Reading of Emily Dickinson's Poem #632

serves to draw the readers attention to this word and give it added emphasis. They break up the lines in such a way that mimics th...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

Brain and the Long and Short Term Effects of Using Cocaine

be considered the harmless recreational drug it was once believed to be as effects from short term usage, long term usage, and wit...