Name: Azure Gouge Topic: Addiction to Drugs: Phentermine Central Idea: Phentermine is a stimulant that is similar to amphetamine that affects the central nervous system; it is usually subscribed to treat obesity. Introduction I. How far would you go to be skinny? Would you risk life altering changes just to have the perfect body? Would you risk hurting your friends and family just to be skinny? Would it really be worth it to you? II. I want to discuss the
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Addiction Defined Addiction has been defined as "A primary‚ chronic disease‚ characterized by impaired control over the use of a psychoactive substance and/or behaviour. Clinically‚ the manifestations occur along biological‚ psychological‚ sociological and spiritual dimensions"‚ (Schlimme‚ 2002). Symptoms of Video and Computer Game Addiction According to Maressa Hecht Orzack of Computer Addicition Services‚ symptoms of video and computer game addiction are quite specific: Psychological Symptoms
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Addictions Addiction is a very touchy subject. Millions upon millions of people in the world today are addicted to various things‚ be it: drugs‚ alcohol‚ sex‚ money‚ pain‚ and numerous other things‚ and the scary thing is‚ is that they don’t even know it. People go their whole loves without ever realizing that they have lived their whole life for that one thing. Addiction can be harmless in some cases‚ but in others it can ruin friendships‚ wreck families and breakup marriages‚ and lead to
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idea of the video‚ The Adolescent Brain‚ is that the teen brain goes mostly undeveloped until their 20’s. This research and data provides a new answer for people putting the heat of teenage behavior on hormones. The video layed out the main parts of the brain‚ and pointed out where and when it becomes developed in your lifetime. For example‚ the frontal lobe controls many functions like‚ self control‚ judgement‚ and emotional regulation. However‚ this area of the brain is not fully developed until later
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Split-Brain Patients: The independent functioning of the left and right hemisphere when no longer connected by the corpus callosum. The human brain is a dynamic and elastic processing unit that manages the great extent of human life. This entails both conscious and unconscious functioning of each human system. For example‚ the brain controls emotions through behaviors‚ physiological responses (both autonomic and hormonal)‚ and feelings in response to stimuli from the environment (Carlson
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The Behaving Brain: Video Response The video put the chapter into visual perspective for me in terms of learning about our brain structure and it’s different parts. The video describes the three important jobs our neurons do: receive information from other cells‚ process information‚ and transmit it to the rest of the body. Without our neurons we would have no brain activity. All behavior begins with an action from a neuron. First the brain gathers information from the receptors and spread it
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Concept and magnitude of brain drain Migration of people as a phenomenon differs from country to country and from time to time. It is misleading to generalise about the possible effects of migration from LDCs. But even more fundamentally‚ one can argue that different studies are measuring differing things. All migrations cannot be justifiably brought within a single analytic umbrella‚ though it has been so done in the contemporary literature on the subject. Migration of HQM from LDCs may be due
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Brain Drain refers to the emigration (out-migration) of knowledgeable‚ well-educated and skilled professionals from their home country to another country. This can take place because of several factors. The most obvious is the availability of better job opportunities in the new country. Other factors that can cause brain drain include: war or conflict‚ health risks‚ and political instability. Brain drain occurs most commonly when individuals leave less developed countries (LDCs) with fewer opportunities
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building and has effected the youth culture.Most of youth or teenagers in the year 2010 ranging from 12 to 20 years old is now suffering from Internet Addiction Disorder (IDS).Internet access are now accessible everywhere we go and it makes it easier for youth to be addicted to the internet.There are no cure for computer addiction.This viral addiction has affected many parts of the society and the economics.Parents buy computers for their children for educational resources but they abuse these privilege
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between the two brains is in a loop that a start in the front of the brain‚ the loop includes; the parahippocampalgyrus‚ the amygdala and several other parts of the brain that are tied to emotion and impulse control. Under certain circumstances these parts of the brain would light up drastically on a “normal” person’s MRI scan‚ but would not light up at all on a psychopath’s MRI scan. Researchers‚ at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry‚ say “the differences in psychopaths’ brains mark them
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