Eating Disorders and Adolescence adolescents go through many changes as they hit puberty‚ they begin dealing with changes to their hormones‚ their relationships‚ even their physical appearance. Many children are feeling uncertain about these changes and look to their peers and to the media to tell them how they should look and what growing up entails. They feel a loss of control over their emotions and their relationships‚ experience frequent mood swings due to hormonal changes that cause confusion
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Background Information Albinism is a genetic disorder which affects the amount of melanin produced‚ in a person’s skin‚ hair‚ or eyes. Oculocutaneous albinism‚ Ocular albinism‚ and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome are other names for this genetic disorder. The disorder affects mostly men‚ because it is a recessive gene. Females are usually carriers. Albinism does not affect any specific ethnic or religious group. Symptoms/ Effects This Genetic Disorder affects the eyes‚ skin‚ or hair’s pigmentation
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Paranoid Personality Disorder and Substance Use Disorder: Co-occurring Personality disorders affect 10-15% of the adult US population. A personality disorder is a very rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior. According to SAMHSA over 8.9 million persons have co-occurring disorders; that is that they have both mental and substance use disorders. Only 7.4% receive treatment and 55.8% receive no treatment at all. The National Survey on Drug use and Health states that there were 45
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Acute stress disorder develops within one month after an individual experiences or sees an event involving a threat or actual death‚ serious injury‚ or physical violation to the individual or others‚ and responds to this event with strong feelings of fear‚ helplessness or horror. The disorder is not inherited. Living with this disorder would not be very nice you would feel scared and like someone is trying to hurt you all the time. Your life span would be normal. The judgment was recognized to
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Eating Disorders and the Media It is proven that more than half of a million American teenagers have an eating disorder. Is the media to blame for this large number of eating disorders? These eating disorders have been documented in medical history since the 1800s. The media contributes to what teenagers believe is “thin and beautiful”. Having an eating disorder can cause many negative physical effects to the body. Not only are there many negative physical effects from eating disorders‚ there are
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engrossed with a project. But then after that‚ we do still come back to reality. However‚ some people are diagnosed with a dissociative identity disorder or the popular multiple personality disorder (MPD). This differ from mild dissociation that all of us commonly experience. People who have this live a fairly complicated life. Sadly‚ people who have this experience traumatic physical‚ sexual or emotional abuse during their childhood. MPD is a severed form of dissociation from reality in which
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have a disorder called Impulse-control. An impulse control disorder is a drive or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to others or that person. Since 2000 B.C. impulse disorders have been around affecting people. Such as King Gilgamesh of Mesopotamia‚ fighting with men‚ chasing women‚ and controlling the kingdom indulged his every impulse. Impulse control disorders include Kleptomania‚ Pyromania‚ Intermittent explosive disorders‚ and Trichotillomania. Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED)
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Dissociative identity disorder‚ more commonly known as multiple personality disorder‚ is one of the most intriguing and least understood of mental disorders. "Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by the presence of "...at least two separate ego states‚ or alters‚ different modes of being and feeling and acting that exist independently of each other‚ coming forth and being in control at different times" (Davison and Neale‚ pg180). "Each personality is fully integrated and a complex unit
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efficiently. The heart begins pumping faster‚ sending blood to priority portions of the body. As the skeletal muscles tense‚ blood is diverted from the stomach which can cause nausea. The brain is preparing for violent physical action‚ "fight or flight" - one reason thinking is muddled. The sweat glands perspire. The blood decreases in the arms and legs‚ gathering in the head and trunk." (Kernodle‚ pg 12). The symptoms include: "1. shortness of breath‚ 2. dizziness‚ 3. accelerated heart rate
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the number‚ size and morphological features of each chromosome II. Types of Human Genetic disorders a. Human Chromosomal Abnormalities 1. Nondisjunction Occurs when homologous chromosomes fail to segregate during meiosis Produces gametes with three chromosome pairs (trisomy) or only one chromosome of a normal pair (monosomy) Involves any chromosomes‚ including the sex chromosomes Causes serious genetic disorders Ex: Down’s syndrome- trisomy 21 Edward’s syndrome- trisomy 18
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