... as directly causing Schizophrenia, but often makes already present symptoms worse. some doctors feel that Schizophrenia might be the result of a slow acting virus since the symptoms can be delayed many years after the first infection. Another possible cause for the disorder is a genetic disposition. This has yet to be proven but it is thought of as a likely cause since children who have a parent with the disorder have a ten times greater chance of developing the illness than children who have abnormal parents. If both parents have the disorder the chance of their off spring having the disorder jumps to forty t ...

... inflicted upon him, and such consent does not affect the criminal responsibilities of any person by whom death may be inflicted upon the person by whom consent is given," which seems to mean that no one has a right to consent to have death inflicted on him or her. In addition, if a person causes the death of another, the consent of the deceased does not provide the person who caused the death a defense to criminal responsibility. Is there a difference, do you think, between a person who, at a dying person's request, prepares a poison and leaves it on the bedside for that person to take, and a person who helps the ...

... the world. A woman who wishes to abort her pregnancy, can simply make an appointment at an abortion clinic, show up for the procedure on time, and go home the same day of the operation. Abortion clinics are located across the globe, and the abortion itself is fairly inexpensive. An abortion with no complications can cost as little as $500. On the flipside, if something goes wrong during or after the procedure, such as excessive bleeding by the female, externally or internally, or other complications, an abortion can be very costly, easily up into the thousands. On the most part, women who do have abortions done ...

... A few weeks later, I did, though! However, I didn't get very scared in my dream because thanks to a certain technique that I developed a few years ago, I can somehow avoid any dangers in my dreams by knowing that I'm dreaming and that nothing bad can happen to me. This helped me in a lot of annoying dreams before because when I'm in trouble I sometimes just “fly away� in certain situations in the dream or I just ignore it and tell the bad guy that he can't hurt me because I know it's just a dream. I have no idea until today how I'm able to do that, but it really makes me wonder. I also don't know why I h ...

... two are interchangeable. Milder forms of a depressive syndrome are called dysthymic disorder, mild forms of mania are hypomania and the milder expressions of Bipolar disorder are called cyclothymic disorders. The use of the term primary affective disorder refers to the individuals who had no previous psychiatric disorders or else only episodes of mania or depression. Secondary affective disorder refers to patients with preexisting psychiatric illness other than depression or mania (Goodwin, Guze. 1989, p.7 ). Bipolar affective disorder affects approximately one percent or three million persons in ...

... Alzheimer's brain. There was a loss of nerve cells from the Cerebral Cortex in the Alzheimer's victim. Approximately ten percent of the neurons in this region were lost. But a ten percent loss is relatively minor, and cannot account for the severe impairment suffered by Alzheimer's victims. Neurofibrillary Tangles are also found in the brains of Alzheimer's victims. They are found within the cell bodies of nerve cells in the cerebral cortex, and take on the structure of a paired helix. Other diseases that have "paired helixes" include Parkinson's disease, Down's Syndrome, and Dementia Pugilistica. Scientists are ...

... Bat excretes contain enough rabies that people who enter bat infested caves can get rabies by breathing in the aerosols created by bats. Two suck caves have been reported in Texas. There are no know caves in NJ that have conditions similar to the cave in Texas where the 2 individuals developed rabies. Treatment There is no known effective treatment for rabies once the symptoms of the illness have developed. After individual consideration in certain cases a decision may be made to administer rabies vaccine to prevent the development of rabies. What Can Be Done to Prevent Rabies? Since there is no treatment for ...

... American Cancer Society, bout 184,3000 North American women will discover that they have breast cancer and another 44,300 women will die of it alone. Breast Cancer is a horrible disease and it devastates thousands of families each year. What makes it even more difficult to conceive is that a woman is at a very high risk just because she is a woman. The breasts which have been with her almost all her life, those which gave her children strength and growth, those which have been a symbol of beauty are now going to destroy her. These are facts which women who have the disease must face and the mental and psychologi ...

... hypnotist over his/her subject. The out-dated though still used, standardized approach, is rather limited due to the fact that it considers a person either hypnotizable or not. In contrast to the authoritarian and standardized approaches, the utilization approach, stresses the interaction nature of the hypnotic relationship. These approaches have many dissimilarities and thus are utilized for different practices. The authoritarian approach emphasizes the power of the hypnotist. This approach, spawned by Mesmer and others, is still widely exploited by stage hypnotists and is consequently often the co ...

... Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) abolished physical restraints, introduced moral (psychological) treatment, and began objective clinical studies. Thereafter, in clinical work with large populations of patients in institutions for the mentally ill, the major types of were outlined and methods of management and treatment were developed(3). Classification. The division of into classes is still inexact, and classification varies from country to country. For official record-keeping purposes, most countries follow the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). For clinical use in t ...