700 Search Results for Neurological Disease
The good news for those keeping an eye on the health of students in secondary school is that there has been a "…significant decline in the 30-day prevalence of powder cocaine use among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders from its peak use in the late Continue Reading...
, 2012). When considering housing for this group it is important to make sure that you do not isolate someone sharing their spiritual or religious beliefs. A social worker who does not keep up with the understanding of the individuals with whom they Continue Reading...
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Gaps occur in various situations. They can be in lesson plans or healthcare. When it comes to the MICU, practice gaps happen. To implement a quality improvement proposal one needs to see what works and how to use it to meet the Continue Reading...
Ethics of Pesticides or Insecticides
Agriculture has been the greatest supplier of food both at the subsistence level and the commercial level. Animal husbandry has prompted wide use of pesticides in control of diseases and maintaining the good hea Continue Reading...
As Pressman states, "Given what has later become known about the delicacies of brain function and the complexities of psychiatric illness, it strains credulity that such a crude procedure as the original lobotomies might truly have yielded therapeut Continue Reading...
Music on Brain and Emotions
The Effect of Music on the Brain and Emotions
The study of human's mental state on subjection to music has been a research subject to many with interest. Over the past decade, interconnection between human's physical an Continue Reading...
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Advantage of Bilingual Children in Cognition
Psychology 317, Fall 2012
Knowing several languages heightens one's status in society and can widen opportunities in professional and personal arenas. There have been a number of studies showing b Continue Reading...
Ergonomics
The relation of Ergonomics and Anthropometric Methods & Health Care setting design
Four (4) Main Parts of Research Methods and Design in Ergonomics:
Research relationship with people's study (theory and hypothesis)
Site selection a Continue Reading...
Flooding Mold
Extreme Weather Mitigation
Formulate a plan on how you would use clinical epidemiology to guide your options and actions on dealing with this issue.
Scientists define flooding events by their probability of occurring in a given time Continue Reading...
24). Leitner & Phillips (2003, p. 160) also stress the need for a holistic diagnosis of the human mind so that a more effective conclusion can be derived. Bugental (1963, p. 565) also decries the tendency to compartmentalize the field of psychol Continue Reading...
The polar bears' most frequent spot is the area where ice meets the water as it makes it easier for them to hunt seals from the water in Arctic ice. Hence, Polar bears are particularly specialized for the life at the Arctic and he spends most of his Continue Reading...
Brain-Death
Arguments upon brain-death
Technology, a very familiar phenomenon of modern world, is continuously enhancing its ways towards comforts and luxuries. New thoughts and ideas are coming with every passing second, and what started as only a Continue Reading...
Stress Management in the Caregiver Setting
An increasing body of evidence points to the intensity of the labor involved in caring, and the impact it has on the caregiver in a healthcare setting. Whether lay or professional, it seems that the potenti Continue Reading...
Johnson and Johnson
Over the last several years, accounting standards and the budgetary process of multinational corporations has been increasingly brought to the forefront. This is because the recent recession and lingering financial challenges, ha Continue Reading...
Management Services:
The determination of the suitable level of services provided during a patient's visit normally requires the identification of whether the patient is new or already established to the hospital. This is followed by the clinician' Continue Reading...
Toxicology of Bisphenol A
Health - Safety
Author's note with contact information and more details on collegiate affiliation, etc.
The use of plastic in modern cultures is so ever-present it is almost invisible. Consumers trust manufacturers and d Continue Reading...
Technology
As scientist come up with new technology for the welfare of mankind in this world they end up producing luxuries. The attitude of the people towards the environment is changing due to the fact that they need more and more luxuries and th Continue Reading...
However can patients truly trust that a physician or psychiatrist eschews his ethical considerations and moral beliefs when working with any particular patient -- and also, would it be practical for a psychiatrist who is Roman Catholic work only wit Continue Reading...
Other techniques like brainstorming and mapping are recommended by Ellis (1997).
The other principle which underlies the constructivist approach is a deep focus on main ideas as well as relationships within the key ideas that lie within a given sub Continue Reading...
Confined Space, Electrodes, Chromium
Confined spaces
A confined space is an enclosed or partially enclosed space that is not primarily designed or intended for human occupancy, it has a restricted entrance or exit by way and size, fined spaces as w Continue Reading...
Jackie Smith is an 82-year-old right-handed Caucasian woman. She has been diagnosed with dementia and her eldest son has petitioned the court for guardianship in the past. At that time Mrs. Smith's eldest son and his family were living with her. A ps Continue Reading...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or (CBT) is currently the popular method to provide therapy to the client with weight control maladies. CBT is ostensibly necessary to assist binge eaters and those whom suffer from ten Continue Reading...
career positions at Humana is product development. This can be a risky position particularly since it may involve working in an environment that contains substances that may be non-conductive to one's health.
There are many controversial chemicals Continue Reading...
Speech Pathology
Some of my earliest childhood memories involve the brief period during first or second grade when I had to overcome a stuttering problem. I remember the social discomfort of worrying about how people might react to me once I started Continue Reading...
Charles A Corr's model highlights individual empowerment and guidelines for caregivers. Debbie Messer Zlatin's theory makes use of what she terms life themes in the dying process (Kubler-Ross and other Approaches, n.d.).
8. The hospice approach to Continue Reading...
Children and the Media
Whether or not children should be allowed to watch television or movies is one that elicits great controversy among parents, educators, and child development experts. Some have no problem with exposing children to media, other Continue Reading...
Some newspapers, Kozol points out, muse in utilitarian terms. They argue that those children who are likely to produce more returns are likewise more deserving of financial support. But the most brutal irony of the way poor children are treated in N Continue Reading...
An early report that was conducted by British physicians claimed that they had found irreversible brain damage in ten male marijuana users -- all of whom had been referred to them for medical treatment because of psychiatric illness, neurological sy Continue Reading...
On the point, Lachman & James indicate that an emphasis in "middle age is on separating from one's family of origin (though still remaining in connection), becoming intimate with a partner, developing skills in work, and rearing children. The em Continue Reading...
Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrest
This work has examined the use of hypothermia in treating cardiac arrest, which is an important scientific advance especially for the American Heart Association's goal of reducing mortality Continue Reading...
Another group demonstrated that when insulin infusion was initiated in patients in the operating room before sternotomy and continued until the third postoperative day that there was improved glucose control. There was a 57% decrease in mortality ra Continue Reading...
Magnetic Resonance System on patients
Magnetic resonance System (Imaging), here after referred to as (MRS), or nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI), is a medical imaging technique widely used in radiology to visualize detailed internal structu Continue Reading...
Assessment is not confined to measures of IQ, of course, or sanity. Neurological issues can affect a patient's functioning, in the case of brain damage or dementia. Regardless, assessment must take place in a clearly-defined relationship, to avoid Continue Reading...
Everything came together including previous experience, memories, brain signals, and emotion to produce that churning in the stomach that told them, in an instant, to go. Those who hesitated and waited for more input signals, unfortunately, perished Continue Reading...
The participant's conditional use of requests for assistance and independent task completion were sustained across time" (Reichle, Dropik, Alden-Anderson & Haley, 2008, ¶ 1). A number of young children with autism experience considerable co Continue Reading...
Issues like self-esteem can impact prognosis. Students who are highly motivated, highly intelligent, and highly confident are the most likely to succeed and excel in spite of their reading disorder or in some cases, because of it. Learning how to ma Continue Reading...
Important Theorists and their Contributions:
Broca contributed greatly to the initial recognition of the importance of specific brain regions to particular aspects of human psychology and behavior in the middle of the 19th century. Shortly thereaf Continue Reading...
Another reason why the shrinking of the microchip remains the most significant technological change to take place in American society is because of the cellular phone and handheld device revolution. Mobile phones are essentially handheld computers Continue Reading...
The affects of precursory steroidal compounds is difficult to determine due to differences in how adolescent bodies process them, but they may have an impact on social behavior similar to steroidal compounds, therefore, use of these substances will Continue Reading...
An IQ level below 70 signifies a deficiency in adaptive functioning.
The possible causes of mental retardation may be attributed to three genetic disorders - down syndrome, fetal alcohol syndrome and fragile X syndrome. The impaired genetics condit Continue Reading...