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  • Progeria, the Premature Fatal Aging Disorder in Children, May Be Able to Be Reversed Through Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors Treatments

    Progeria, the Premature Fatal Aging Disorder in Children, May Be Able to Be Reversed Through Farnesyltransferase Inhibitors Treatments

    Progeria, the premature fatal aging disorder in children, may be able to be reversed through Farnesyltransferase inhibitors (FTI) treatments. Formally known as Hutchinson - Gilford syndrome, Progeria is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in every 8 million babies born. The disorder is known for its unusual appearance of premature aging in children. Progeria was first discovered when it showed up in a child in 1886 by Dr. Hutchinson. The second case was later

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    The mental abnormality Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder has been thought as through the years another chiche chapter in the book of mental malfunctions. However by experts it is considered to be a great risk to the lives of many more adults than people realize. It makes chaos out of everyday routines and puts extreme complication onto the simplest situations (NIMH 2). Understanding this mental illness requires one to know what the ailment is, why people have it,

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jon
  • How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder?

    How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder?

    How Have Psychological Theories Elucidated the Nature of Anxiety: With Particular Reference to Panic Disorder Everybody has had experience with anxiety. Indeed anxiety responses have been found in all species right down to the sea slug (Rapee, et al 1998). The concept of anxiety was for a long time bound up with the work of Sigmund Freud where it was more commonly known as neurosis. Freud’s concept of neuroses consisted of a number of conditions

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    Essay Length: 2,219 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Max
  • Bi Polar Disorder

    Bi Polar Disorder

    What is bipolar disorder? There are two types of bipolar disorders, there is bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder. Bipolar disorder can also be known as manic depressive illness. Approximately one percent of the population has suffered or is suffering with this disorder. Bipolar disorder affects men, women, and children. Bipolar disorder usually appears between the ages of 15 and 25. A mild form of bipolar disorder is called cyclothymiacs. Symptoms of bipolar disorder

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    Essay Length: 970 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Psychological Disorders

    Psychological Disorders

    The top three criteria for determining psychological disorders are deviance, maladaptive behavior, and personal distress. How one defines normal depends on the society one lives in. Although every Culture has ideals of what they consider normal behavior, these ideals vary from one Culture to another . When someone deviates from their respective cultures ideal of normal , They may be labeled mentally ill. The book gives the example of transvestic fetishism, where A man is

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Top
  • Addressing & Analyzing the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder - Adhd

    Addressing & Analyzing the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder - Adhd

    Introduction Psychology contemporarily insinuates itself as one of the most contentious segments of the sector of medical science, this being perhaps particular due to the fact that it primarily bases its research and studies upon intangible and theoretical rather than tangibly physical data. Another factor, moreover, that has tended to be one of the more significant, recent contributors to this contentiousness has been the increased proof of increasingly diverse psychological ailments in consistently decreasing age

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: July
  • Anxiety Disorders

    Anxiety Disorders

    Anxiety is a normal reaction to a threatening situation and results from an increase in the amount of adrenaline from the sympathetic nervous system. This increased adrenaline speeds the heart and respiration rate, raises blood pressure, and diverts blood flow to the muscles. These physical reactions are appropriate for escaping from danger but when they cause anxiety in many situations throughout the day, they may be detrimental to a normal lifestyle. An anxiety disorder is

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    Essay Length: 1,308 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is a lifelong disorder, which can cause a person to do things repeatedly. This disorder is identified by two general symptoms: obsessions and compulsions. An obsession can be defines as an unwelcome, distressing thought or mental image. (Schwartz, 1996) It is a thought that annoys you so much that it causes distress and anxiety. Compulsions are the behaviors that people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder perform in an attempt to

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Gender Identity Disorder

    Gender Identity Disorder

    (e-mail me and let me know if you use this and how it does) Gender Identity Disorder (GID) As early as the age of four (Vitale, 1996), some children begin to realize that the gender their body tells them they are, and the gender their mind tells them they are don't correspond. The sense of gender and the anatomical sex of a person mature at different times and different regions of the body (Vitale, 1997b).

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Many of us have recurrent thoughts or worries, some people perform repetitive routines that might seem unreasonable; however, because these ideas, thoughts, and habits do not last long and on the whole do not cause distress and dysfunction, they are not classified as obsessions. On the other hand, for individuals with obsessive- compulsive disorder, these worries and concerns resulting in compulsions, can go as far as taking over a person’s life. These persistent obsessions can

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    Essay Length: 387 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders A vast amount of research has been done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. Many eating disorders have been proven to emerge during adolescence and often serve as the foundations to more serious problems like anorexia and bulimia. This essay will explore the development of eating disorders in adolescent girls. It will show that these disorders are closely connected to the biological and psychosocial changes that occur during the adolescent

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    Essay Length: 3,221 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Edward
  • Manic Depressive Disorder

    Manic Depressive Disorder

    Concept Manic depressive disorder is a chemical imbalance within the brain. This disorder disrupts you mood and causes your emotions to fluctuate. Mood swings. The disorder causes one to experience extreme depression and mania. The intensity of the mood swings vary going from mild, moderate, and severe. Without treatment the severity and frequency of the illness builds up over the years. Non-professionals normally call this disease “manic-depressive illness”. Those in the psychiatric field refer to

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Social Anxiety Disorder

    Social Anxiety Disorder

    Social Anxiety Disorder 1 Running Head: LIVING WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY Social Anxiety Disorder Amy McCormick Louisiana Delta Community College Psychology 101 Robinson December 7, 2005 Social Anxiety Disorder 2 Social Anxiety Disorder is the world’s third largest mental health problem which affects over seven percent of the world’s population. Social Anxiety is the fear and anxiety one has in a social situation, or the feeling of being judged by other people in public. It

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Bred
  • Attention Deficit Disorder

    Attention Deficit Disorder

    Attention Deficit Disorder, widely known as ADD, is a brain disorder which many people suffer from daily. The symptoms described by three authors all go hand in hand, but ADD varies greatly from person to person and some may have completely different symptoms than others. The diagnosis of ADD varies in each author with their own technique. ADD treatment is a long debated and very rough subject, as the authors have different views. The authors

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: regina
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

    “I know my hands are clean. I know that I have touched nothing dangerous. But… I doubt my perception. Soon, if I do not wash, a mind numbing, searing anxiety will cripple me. A feeling of stickiness will begin to spread from the point of contamination and I will be lost in a place I do not want to go. So I wash until the feeling is gone, until the anxiety subsides. Then I feel

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Yan
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Communication Conflicts Within the Home After Returning from War.

    Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Communication Conflicts Within the Home After Returning from War.

    Prepared by: Patrick Ferguson, Adriana Gavrau and Shannon Marshall. INTRODUCTION Many soldiers, returning home from their years of service in the military, have fond memories of things they have experiences and friendships they had acquired. For most soldiers, the time they spent in the armed services was a transition point in their life from high school graduation, into adulthood. However, there is a vast majority of these soldiers that are left with unpleasant reminders of

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Anna
  • Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline Personality Disorder For the second film analysis, I watched “Girl Interrupted.” The movie is about a teenage girl name Susanna Kaysen who has been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. People with Borderline Personality Disorder “are often emotionally unstable, impulsive, unpredictable, irritable, and anxious. They also are prone to boredom. Their behavior is similar to that of individuals with schizotypal personality disorder but they are not as consistently withdrawn and bizarre” (Santrock, 2005). In “Girl

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Eating Disorders in Adolescent Girls

    Eating Disorders in Adolescent Girls

    Eating Disorders in Adolescent Girls Eating disorders are a group of mental disorders that interfere with normal food consumption. They may lead to serious health problems and, in the case of both bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa, even death. The major recognized eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder. An eating disorder is a serious psychological condition. The sufferer is obsessed with food, diet and often body image to the point where

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    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Anti-Social Personality Disorder

    Anti-Social Personality Disorder

    Anti-Social Personality Disorder In a world full of fears, perhaps the worst one a human being should have is that to be afraid of his fellow man. The human that should be most feared is the one that has Anti-Social Personality Disorder or in laymen's terms the psychopath. The psychopath is probably the most deviant mind that exists and treatment is not very successful because there is not a cure or drug to control it.

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    Essay Length: 2,705 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    Many people may ask: What is an eating disorder? A simple definition of an eating disorder is abnormal patterns of behavior and thought. All eating disorders have shared characteristics. There is fear of becoming fat, drive to become thin, an obsession with food, weight, and calories. Families of sufferers also have an increased incidence of depression, obesity, substance abuse, and eating disorders. Two main eating disorders are Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa. Anorexia is an

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    Essay Length: 624 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Jack
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder

    Dissociative Identity Disorder

    My topic of choice for this research paper is Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID. This appellation is rather new; therefore, most are more familiar with the disorder's older, less technical name: Multiple Personality Disorder or MPD. When first presented with the task of selecting a topic on which to center this paper, I immediately dismissed Dissociative Identity Disorder (which for the sake of brevity will be referred to as DID for the remainder of this

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    Essay Length: 1,340 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Steve
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    There are many different types of eating disorders in our world today and many suffer from them. Young women, and the reason is unknown, are the main targets (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 147). I believe young women are more apt because of the ideal media, newspapers, magazines, etc. That's how they feel they need to live up to, and also they are more emotional and are in that stage of life where things like

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    Submitted: January 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders

    Eating Disorders The article posted on June 2005 and verified by Doctor Barbara P. Homeier, MD was created with the intention of educating the American population about the eating disorders anorexia and bulimia. It is mostly directed to parents for a tool to educate their children not to follow these trends and gives them advice for treating the if they have it already. Information about the symptoms of these diseases is included on the article.

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    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a common mental illness in which people feel burdened by unwanted thoughts or forced to repeat troublesome actions. This disorder can become evident during adulthood, but is most common to appear during adolescence. When this disorder appears during those stages of life it is known as Pediatric OCD and it usually manifests itself between the ages of 7-12, through the obsession, compulsion, and it slowly disables a person's life until they get

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    Essay Length: 1,314 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: David
  • Major Depressive Disorder

    Major Depressive Disorder

    Major Depressive Disorder or MDD is a very common clinical condition that affects millions of people every year. According to the Agency for Health Care Policy & Research, “ depression is under diagnosed & untreated by most medical doctors, despite the fact that it can almost always be treated successfully. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV); A person who suffers from this disorder must have a depressed

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    Essay Length: 499 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Jessica

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