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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...

TBI and its Effects

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

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...

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...

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 ...

Critique of Article on Bathing Premature InfantsCRITIQUE: “BATHING PREMATURE INFANTS: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES”

Peters is concerned about, but rather, the fact that there has been little evidence that such bathing is beneficial; that the proc...

Cardiac Patients and Propranolol Use

produce rennin. Renin is a protease that is released by the kidneys and have the effect of cleaving angiotensin I to angiotensin, ...

Law Enforcement Officials and Stress

The outcome of that stress can be phenomenal in terms of its impact on the officer and on the performance of their job. Those...

Relationship Between Cardiovascular Disease Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

rest and sleep to the heightened conditions experienced during maximal exercise (Turner, 1994). In other words:...

California Desert Species of Animals and Plants

acclimatization did not occur overnight, but rather over an extended period of time as the physiological composition of such plant...

Australian Plant Life and Adaptation

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

PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF HIGH ALTITUDE TRAINING (RUNNING)

paper properly! One of the most comprehensive forms of exercise other than swimming whereby the entire body reaps benefit is tha...

HOW CIRCULATION OPERATES

be compared to a continuously looping freight train whereby deliveries are made on a regular basis without ever coming to a stop o...

Pro Sports and Imposing Age Limits

necessities of life for themselves as determined by a capitalistic society. According to antitrust proponents, rules that include...

Maintaining Balance with Form and Function in Physiology

glands because they are more vascular and have no ducts. The hormones that they produce are stored in their vacuoles or granules ...

How We Handle Stress Affects Our Health

substances to the various components of our body. These, in turn, control such aspects of our lives as our emotions. Research ha...

Metabolism and Metabolic Efficiency

properly! All living organisms must somehow be...

Defining Physiological Psychology

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

Anorexia: Informational Essay

be anemia, light-headedness and swollen joints. Reduced muscle mass is also a danger for anorexics; if the disorder becomes sever...

Stress Theory And Coping With Stress

results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...

About Parkinson’s Disease

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

Physical and Physiological Aspects of Tourette's Syndrome

characteristics to be interlaced with short bursts of action potentials (Anthony and Thibodeau, 1983). Because Tourettes Syndrome...

The Impacts of Acid Rain on Water and Soil

that deposition which is lower than seven on the pH scale and the alkaline classification being applied to those depositions which...

Streptococcus mutans and Acid Tolerance

inhabit. It is the home to a number of compounds which interact with living organisms such as S. mutans in both beneficial and de...

Shift Work Rotations and Circadian Rhythms

but cant or b) individual knows they must move but give themselves every excuse in the book not to (Circadian Rhythm Room 2002, ...

Dreaming and its Purpose

to certain regions of the brain for example does produce definite and specific effects in respect to the subjective experience of...

Regulation of Body Temperature

are capable of changing their rate of fire in reaction to changes in temperature. If the blood which passes through the hypothalam...

Eating, Sleeping, Walking, and the Body's Role

joint. "Intact joint position sense is necessary for normal muscle coordination and timing" (Carpenter et al, 1998, p. 262). Add...

Cocaine's Physiological Effects

very oftentimes sadly mistaken. This study proved that the brain, after experiencing only one exposure to cocaine, is then "prime...