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    a ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO What is alcohol? Alcohol is the most commonly used drug. If you make careless decisions regarding alcohol‚ you may be faced with serious consequences – including possible jail time‚ suspension of your driver’s license‚ injury‚ or even death effects Alcohol is a drug that is absorbed into the bloodstream from the stomach and small intestine. It is broken down by the liver and then eliminated from the body. There are limits to how fast the liver can break

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    1.2: Using one or more examples‚ explain effects of neurotransmission on human behavior: Our nervous systems consist of between 10 to 100 billion neurons; each of which making 13 trillion connections with each other through electrochemical messages that allow people to respond to stimuli‚ from the environment or from internal changes in a person’s body. The neurons send these electrochemical messages through neurotransmission. Electrical impulses traveling down the axon (body) of a neuron‚ instigates

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    Why do you think Bill’s schizophrenia was not recognized immediately? I believe Bill’s schizophrenia was not recognized immediately because he had comorbid disorder. Bill was also exhibiting a learning disability‚ and depression. It may also have not been recognized because the onset was difficult to detect. The symptoms seemed to be confused with violent aggression. The ones around him may only observed the behaviors they could physically see and Bill probably at a young age had difficulty explaining

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    Lab 13 Daphnia Lab Report

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    The purpose of lab number thirteen was to examine the response of the daphnia to a chemical stimulant. Also examined was how human resting heart rates differed from the daphnia’s. Stimulants are any substances that raise the levels of activity in the body. Stimulants could be a number of things such as physical or chemical. Physical stimulus usually deal with something that affects the five senses such as sight‚ hearing these could be attributed to loud noises or too much light going into your eye

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    Piracetam Research Paper

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    Piracetam is a drug which was first introduced in 1964 by Corneliu Giurgea‚ a Belgian Scientist at UCB laboratories. Piracetam is part of a class of drugs known as Nootropics. Nootropics have been scientifically shown to improve cognitive functions and enhance mental performance. There are many major ailments which are treated professionally with Piracetam. Piracetam is available over-the-counter or with a prescription. As part of Piracetam’s effect of increasing cognitive functions‚ it specifically

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    Recovery Focused Practice

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    Introduction There have been remarkable developments in mental health care in the past decade. Mental health service provision is increasing and focusing more on the role of the primary care sector (Mental Health Drug and Alcohol Principal Committee‚ 2013). One particular mental health service is recovery-focused care - governments in many developed countries have suggested that mental health service systems should concentrate on the concept of recovery-focused practice (Cavanaugh‚ 2014). This essay

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    In this case the man suffers from a sympathetic preganglionic lesion‚ and the neurotransmitter needed in order to communicate with the postganglionic neuron is Ach. (12) To create an excitatory response in the cholinergic-nicotinic receptor without having the neuron release the neurotransmitter‚ doctors can administer a nicotinic agonist in order to make the transmission of the signal possible. The nicotinic drug will mimic the action of Ach. (5‚13) Unfortunately‚ recreating Ach action could create

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    Cox Enzyme Research Paper

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    There are COX enzyme isoforms include COX-1 and COX-2. (Figure 3.8) These enzymes originate from different genes and have distinct tissue-specific expressions and biologic functions. COX-1 is constitutively expressed in most tissues and believed to responsible for the production of prostanoids in homeostasis‚ such as gastric epithelial cytoprotection and renal blood flow maintenance. COX-2 expression is inducibly expressed only at marginal levels under condition in many tissues and is upregulated

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    In this source I was looking into the different substances athletes have used and how many performance enhancing drugs are available to use. I decided to look at this because the website title intrigued me and when I saw the list of performance enhancing drugs‚ I knew that this would help significantly to show what athletes use. This is important to me so that it will support why are why not athletes should use drugs by showing what kinds of performance enhancing drugs are available. In the source

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    Extracerebral vessels‚ located at the base and surface of the brain‚ are innervated by perivascular nerves originating from the superior cervical ganglion‚ responsible for the sympathetic innervation‚ the sphenopalatine and otic ganglia‚ mainly supplying parasympathetic nerves‚ as well as the trigeminal ganglion [59]. This extrinsic innervation is lost‚ when perforating arteries enter the brain. These parenchymal arterioles have unique properties compared to the microvasculature found in other organs;

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