Great Depression From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia {draw:frame} Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California‚ centering on Florence Owens Thompson‚ age 32‚ a mother of seven children‚ in Nipomo‚ California‚ March 1936. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression) in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations‚ but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s
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JJ Ferrer Psych 101 Michelle Vallie Causes and Symptoms of Brain Aneurysm “An estimated 6 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm‚ or 1 in 50 people” (Brain Aneurysm Foundation 2011). First of all‚ what is Brain Aneurysm? A brain (cerebral) aneurysm is a bulging‚ weak area in the wall of an artery that supplies blood to the brain. In most cases‚ a brain aneurysm causes no symptoms and goes unnoticed. In rare cases‚ the brain aneurysm ruptures‚ releasing blood
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Depression‚ also called depressive disorder. It is both a disorder and a state of mind. This disorder affects the way you think‚ feel‚ and the way you act. Depression can distort your thinking. “Depression is a hidden illness‚” Jeremy Copland‚ professor of psychiatry at SUNY downstate in New York‚ people can be upbeat and appear to be happy but struggling. Depression is diagnosed usually by a doctor who will conduct an exam by asking specific questions or by doing a lab test which requires some
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The symptoms were first described more than a hundred years ago by the French neurologist Gilles de la Tourette (Harvard Mental Health) ‚ and his name has been given to the disorder now regarded as the most common cause of tics — brief intermittent involuntary or semi-voluntary movements or sounds. A diagnosis of Tourette’s syndrome (TS) requires many motor tics (movements) and at least one vocal or phonic tic (sound)‚ with symptoms beginning before age 18 and lasting more than a year. Often the
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Depression in Students Students may be particularly vulnerable to depression‚ with rates at around 14 percent according to one study in Dublin‚ Ireland. The background rate among the general population is thought to be around eight to 12 percent. About half (46.7 percent) of U.S. young people aged 18 to 24 years are enrolled in college on a part-time or full-time basis‚ so this represents a significant number of individuals. The 2006 National Survey of Counseling Centers showed that 92 percent
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States. Previous study have shown that immigrants do experience depression after living for a certain period of time in the receiving country. The findings of this research have shown that as time increases‚ the possibility of becoming depressed also increases. Different variables‚ such as age‚ marital status‚ gender‚ and so on were looked. This study confirmed that individuals who immigrate to another country are at high risk of depression due to problems that they may encounter in the host country
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Adolescent Sexuality in the Media Adolescent sexuality refers to sexual feelings behaviors and the development in adolescents. Adolescents tread a narrow path between childhood and adulthood. Most are not treated like children‚ but they are not afforded the full status of adulthood either. They face an identity crisis in which they must figure out who they are and what they want to become. The also face difficult decisions pertaining to their sexuality and with people of the same sex and opposite
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Adolescent Substance Abuse Being a teenager and raising a teenager are individually‚ and collectively‚ enormous challenges. For many teens‚ illicit substance use and abuse become part of the landscape of their teenage years. Although most adolescents who use drugs do not progress to become drug abusers‚ or drug addicts in adulthood‚ drug use in adolescence is a very risky proposition. Even small degrees of substance abuse (for example‚ alcohol‚ marijuana‚ and inhalants) can have negative consequences
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Effects of Substance Abuse on Adolescent Development Liberty University Abstract During adolescence‚ cognition and the brain undergo parallel development. Substance abuse has led to impairments in adults but less is known of its effects on adolescent cognition. To be addressed is the neuropsychological performance of adolescents involved in substance use such as alcohol use and marijuana. Effects of substance use are analyzed on neuropsychological composites that include verbal
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Nowadays‚ adolescent have trending in alcohol and other drugs abuse as common norm during adolescence stage. According to World Health Organization (2013) ‚ 320‚000 young people between the age of 15 and 29 died from alcohol-related causes‚ resulting in 9% of all deaths in that age group. To overcome this self-deteriorating phenomenon‚ researchers have conducted series of experiments and studies in searching for the causes of this risky behaviour. One of the identified risk factors for the teen
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