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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...

Overview of Delusional Misidentification

have surgery or wear masks to look like another. The film Face Off demonstrates how someone could be mistaken for another individu...

Cocaine's Physiological Effects

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

Social Role Played by Alcohol

period of time to over twenty years as seen in many of the cask matured whiskeys and ports. The production of alcoholic drinks has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Children and Causes of ADHD

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

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...

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)...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Alzheimer's Disease and its Physiological Causes

Scientists now accept the fact that some individuals have a greater chance of being impacted by Alzheimers disease than others. T...

Careers Of Industrial-Organization Psychology And Physiological Psychology

a broader community. The efforts made bring to light just how much of a contributing factor the mentally ill can become when give...

Components of a Tuna Sandwich and its Physiological and Ecological Relevance

which are equally as fascinating in terms of its makeup and relation to humans. Several of these aspects will be discussed in the...

Sodium's Physiological Effects

are not (Sodium Intake and High Blood Pressure, 2003). Guidelines indicate that Americans should not consume more that 2,400 mg o...

Sexual Mimicry and its Behavioral and Physiological Elements

between gender-specific characteristics and the process by which animals pursued beneficial reproductive dynamics. Theorists have...