Describe and evaluate two treatments for unipolar depression (25 marks). It has been believed that psychological disorders‚ like physical illnesses‚ have organic causes. Therefore‚ mental disorders are treated just like physical ones. Earlier treatments have included things like trepanning which was carried out in the stone again. Nowadays we have much safer and effective treatments such as therapies and drug treatment. Low levels of both noradrenaline (nora) and serotonin (sero) have been
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The restoration theory of sleep function is carried out by Oswald‚ who argues that the purpose of sleep is to restore depleted energy reserves‚ eliminate waste products from muscles‚ repair cells and recover physical abilities that have been lost during the day. Evidence for this theory is firstly by Shapiro‚ who found that people who ran an ultra marathon slept 1.5 hours longer then they did two nights following the race. In addition‚ stage four occupied a much greater proportion of the total sleep
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Privation is the failure to form attachment. It occurs when a child has no opportunity to form a relationship with a parental figure‚ or when such relationship is distorted‚ due to their treatment. It is different to deprivation‚ which occurs when an established relationship is severed. It is understood that privation can produce social‚ emotional‚ and intellectual problems for children; however‚ how inevitable such problems become as a results of privation and the extent to which can be reserved
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Everyone in the entire world has different mechanism for dealing with anxiety. There are many strategies and things people do in order to reduce their anxiety. Each day people in the world get into situations where their anxiety might rise and their ego feels like it might lose control. The ego fights anxiety during these situations and uses different techniques in order to do so. The basic defensive mechanism against anxiety is repression. Repression automatically pushes conscious anxiety thoughts
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Defense mechanisms‚ in psychoanalysis‚ are any of a variety of unconscious personality reactions which the ego uses to protect the conscious mind from threatening feelings and perceptions. Defense mechanisms can be psychologically healthy or maladaptive‚ but tension reduction is the overall goal in both cases(About). Primary defense mechanisms include repression and denial‚ which serve to prevent unacceptable ideas or impulses from entering the conscience. Secondary defense mechanisms-generally appearing
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IAPR Technical Paper Series Incentive mechanisms for innovation Aidan Hollis∗ Department of Economics University of Calgary June 2007 Technical Paper No. TP-07005 Institute for Advance Policy Research University of Calgary Calgary‚ Alberta Canada http://www.iapr.ca ∗ James Love got me started on this project and I have appreciated his encouragement and his criticisms. The paper has benefited from the comments of my colleagues at the University of Calgary‚ particularly those
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Antikythera Mechanism is a piece of history that most people don’t know exists. It is a very complex device that was used on a cargo ship. This artifact was in the wreckage of a cargo ship nearly 2‚000 years ago. The Antikythera Mechanism was a device used very frequently on the cargo ship long ago. It was very useful to the men on the ship because it helped them know what time of the year it is or where they were. Antikythera Mechanism works in a few different ways. This device is very thin
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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls‚ everyone would be a vegetarian.” Paul McCartney stated in a video he made to motivate switching to vegetarianism. Like Paul McCartney‚ many people today are switching to a vegetarian or even vegan diet and with good reason. Environmentalists and scientists have shown‚ through extensive research‚ that meat industries are over-producing animal products‚ and in addition‚ are a major cause of environmental problems such as global warming and world hunger. Another
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Healthy Living University of Phoenix Kayla Large 4/20/2013 Introduction Eating healthy foods and getting plenty of exercise are the two most important things a person can do for their body to maintain a healthy weight. When a person takes care of their body by eating healthy foods and exercising‚ the person will notice that they have more energy and a more positive attitude overall. About 12.5 million children and teens‚ and over one-third of adults in the US have an obesity problem. The obesity
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There are two main biological theories which explain the assumed causes of schizophrenia: Genetic and Dopamine Hypothesis. Research by Mikaywa et al has found that there must be a genetic explanation of schizophrenia due to the fact that concordance rates for environmental causes are not 100%. Also Mikaywa noticed that schizophrenia runs in the family‚ meaning there must be something other than environmental causes‚ causing the disorder. What Mikaywa studied was DNA from human families who were
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