Neuropathological Disorders: Alzheimer’s Disease Meredith Liebeck PSY350: Physiological Psychology Professor Buthania Alaloom June 3‚ 2011 As we age the risk of losing our memory increases as well as the ability to remain doing the things that we have been used to doing almost our entire adult lives. A small decline in certain abilities is expected‚ but for those with Alzheimer’s disease it is a little different. Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible‚ progressive brain disease that slowly
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Kristina was 10 years old when she was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa‚ and despite some mild childish resistance she had recovered and thought she would never go back to her eating disorder. Little did she know that her eating disorder was biding its time in the dark corners of her own mind. Before the end of middle school she had relapsed. During her freshman year in high school‚ she was hospitalized for 7 months. Over time she began insulating herself from her family and even her closest friends
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Eating Disorders and the Media We are constantly surrounded and influenced by the media no matter where we go. With all of the great improvements the media has provided to our lives‚ it is hard to recognize how much the media has negatively impacted us as well. Media advertises body images that are deemed to be “perfect” which pressures individuals to change their appearance to meet the standards of society’s view of “perfection.” Not everyone can achieve self-satisfaction with his or her appearance
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Gabrielle Alicea Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder The life of a child with ADD is not an easy one. In the United States‚ each year‚ 8.4% of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. That is 5.2 million children every year. Attention deficit disorder is not extremely easy to diagnose‚ as its symptoms can sometimes mirror the symptoms of some learning disabilities. Symptoms of ADD include; inattention‚ hyperactivity‚ and impulsiveness. In addition to the typical symptoms one
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. It affects 40 million adults‚ aging 18 and older‚ accounting for 18% of the population. (Facts & Statistics‚ 2010) Anxiety is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs‚ such as sweating‚ tension‚ and increased pulse‚ by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat‚ and by self-doubt about one’s capacity to cope with
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Autism I INTRODUCTION Autism‚ disorder that severely impairs development of a person’s ability to communicate‚ interact with other people‚ and maintain normal contact with the outside world. The disorder was first described in 1943 by American psychiatrist Leo Kanner. One of the most common developmental disabilities‚ autism affects 2 to 5 out of every 10‚000 children and appears before the age of three. It is four to five times more common in males than in females. II CHARACTERISTICS Autism
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a behavioral disorder counselor because i find gratification in helping people through their problems and i find mental health fascinating. Behavioral disorders‚ left untreated can affect a person’s ability to function in the world. Behavioral disorder counseling helps people deal with behavioral disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)‚ which interferes with a person’s ability to focus on the task at hand and control impulsive behavior; emotional disorders like depression
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age 7 showing dissatisfaction with their body‚ and as young as 9 starting dieting‚ eating disorders are a serious issue in our society. Taking a look at perceptions‚ behaviors‚ and medical issues associated with the disorders of anorexia and bulimia‚ scholars have tried to categorize and find answers to the problems which certain adolescents suffer. In this paper I focused on the two major eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia. In 1978‚ Brunch called anorexia nervosa a "new disease" and noted
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MENTAL DISORDER AMONGST ADOLESCENTS Importance and relevance According to the World Health Organization (WHO‚2002)‚ mental health disorders are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Three of the ten leading causes of disability in people between the ages of 15 and 44 are mental disorders‚ and the other causes are often associated with mental disorders. Both retrospective and prospective research has shown that most adulthood mental disorders begin in childhood and adolescence (Kessler
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Autism Autism Spectrum Disorder is a mental disorder that is usually detected during the stages of early childhood. The disorder affects many different functions of the brain. It occurs in one of every five hundred births. Autism causes problems with the speech‚ language‚ social interaction‚ intelligence‚ and the compulsive behavior of a person. The primary focus of this paper is to give a general definition and description of autism. There are several different types of autism that will be introduced
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