Assessing and Treating Patients with Bipolar Disorder Bipolar disorder, also referred to as manic depression, is an episodic or chronic mental disorder characterized by fluctuating and often extreme changes in energy, mood, and activity levels, thus Continue Reading...
The U.S. Healthcare Systems 1 The U.S. healthcare system is fragmented by the fact that incentives do not align with the actual goal of healthcare (Enthoven, 2009). For instance, healthcare facilities are incentivized to “treat” patients Continue Reading...
Depression is a state of sadness and gloom where one feels dull and overwhelmed by the challenges of life. People tend to say that they are "depressed' any time they feel very unhappy. More likely than not, it could just be a mere response to fatigu Continue Reading...
Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) has become the treatment of choice for a wide range of psychological disorders and its efficacy has been demonstrated by numerous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods studies (Spates & Pagoto, 2010). In or Continue Reading...
breast Cancer diagnosis among African-American and Caucasian women? Breast cancer in the United States is the most widely spread cancer in ladies aged 45 through 64. The American Cancer Society in 2014 stated that, around 232,670 ladies were determ Continue Reading...
Psychology Dual Diagnosis: Substance Related Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders The abuse of substances and the dependence on it are considered to be two separate types of disorders. This is according to the DSM-V use of the terms. The DSM-V is a Continue Reading...
Psychology Dual Diagnosis: Substance Related Disorders and Co-Occurring Disorders The abuse of substances and the dependence on it are considered to be two separate types of disorders. This is according to the DSM-V use of the terms. The DSM-V is a Continue Reading...
Genome-Wide Association Study for OCD Complications The OCD (Obsessive -- compulsive disorder) is referred as repetitive behaviors and thoughts experienced by individuals. (Visscher, Brown, McCarthy, et al. (2012). Typically, the genes' characteris Continue Reading...
GWA (Genome-Wide Association ) Study Analysis for OCD The OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) is a type of mental disorder that makes people doing the same thing repeatedly. In other words, the OCD is characterized by unreasonable obsessive fear and Continue Reading...
Vaccines Causing Autism in Infants; Possibility of a More Appropriate Time to Vaccinate Other Than Shortly After Birth The past 20 years has seen a drastic rise in the number of individuals suffering Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), with 1 in every 8 Continue Reading...
oral chlorhexidine as preventative agent in of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in adults who are critically ill and mechanically ventilated in intensive care units (ICUs). The process of critiquing published studies leads to higher level of co Continue Reading...
Caffeine Improves Visual-Motor Performance Biological Investigation Acute Caffeine Ingestion Improves Visual-Motor Responses Caffeine represents the most widely consumed psychoactive substance in the world, so understanding how this chemical affec Continue Reading...
Best Practice to Isolate MRSA Patients in the Hospital Environment Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is an anti-microbial organism of concern in the healthcare field; therefore, preventing and controlling its spread within the heal Continue Reading...
Therefore, aftercare often concentrates on different ways to manage stress, deal with urges, develop healthy relationships, etc. One of the biggest issues with treating addictions is that the initial stages such as detoxification are typically succ Continue Reading...
Efforts to Achieve Healthy Aging Ping-Chung Leung Institute of Chinese Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR. Abstract: Longevity is a blessing as long as good health is not lost. However, the tendency to have a decline on normal ph Continue Reading...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Case Study Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy In general, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is one form of the broader category of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (Westbrook & Continue Reading...
Computers Used by Nurses The area of interest in nursing informatics are nursing information, nursing data and nursing knowledge. The present state of knowledge related to these phenomena proposes four implications for the development of systems to Continue Reading...
Chronic Liver Disease With a number of functions -- including detoxification, protein synthesis, and the production of chemicals that are necessary for digestion -- the human liver is vital. It is reddish brown and has four unequal sized lobes; usu Continue Reading...
Ethical Principles in Biomedical Research Biomedical research is a field of medical research which is used to assist and support the body of knowledge that is available in the field of medicine. It is divided into two major categories. The first is Continue Reading...
, 2010). This point is also made by Yehuda, Flory, Pratchett, Buxbaum, Ising and Holsboer (2010), who report that early life stress can also increase the risk of developing PTSD and there may even be a genetic component involved that predisposes some Continue Reading...
Treatments An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Psychological and Critical Incident Stress Debriefings The world in which we live today is an ever-changing, precarious environment. Many individuals, for these very reasons, experience stressful, lif Continue Reading...
Factorial Design This study seeks to answer the question of what individual treatment modes have been found to be the effective for treating this population as stated by the study. Complementing that question is the fact that the study is also attem Continue Reading...
New Suppliers of Health Supplements A promising new addition to the company's current line of health supplements was identified during a recent trip to Bangkok, Thailand, to meet suppliers of a promising antioxidant, coenzyme Q10. A growing body of Continue Reading...
Substance abuse is a common affliction among the elderly population. Several factors may contribute to the prevalence of alcoholism and drug abuse among older adults, including loneliness, poor health, and depression. The most rapidly growing segment Continue Reading...
OCD is in many ways a homogeneous disorder. The disorder has a prevalence of around 2% to 3% of the population, and this prevalence is likely underestimated in many different countries / and descriptions of obsessions and compulsions have been rema Continue Reading...
There is however no cure. There is currently a lot of research dedicated to the development of more effective interventions as well as treatments for ADHD. These include the use of revolutionary tools such as brain scanners. The management and treatm Continue Reading...
Alternatively, degeneration of the ascending cholinergic and catechola- minergic neuronal systems may contribute, at least in part, to the occurrence of this frontal-lobe-like symptomatology associated with Parkinson's disease. (Dubois & Pillon, Continue Reading...
However, psychology, even scientific psychology, presents falsifiability challenges not evident in the natural scientists. Some scientists might argue that Freud has been shown to be a poor theorist, given what has been revealed about the brain sin Continue Reading...
"Hyperkalemia is a potentially life-threatening metabolic problem caused by inability of the kidneys to excrete potassium, impairment of the mechanisms that move potassium from the circulation into the cells, or a combination of these factors "FN12. Continue Reading...
Some patients feel helpless, hopeless, depressed, isolated from others, belittled, and do not know how to seek appropriate help from others (Rutter 2004). Socially supportive arrangements were addressed as the attributes of socially legitimate roles Continue Reading...
Therefore, Hexsel's study will not be included in this analysis for failure to meet the study protocol. Another human study involved a case study of a single patient. This Brazilian study represented a case study and does not meet the protocol for Continue Reading...
After ICI discharge daily ECG or predischarge (Jansen et al., 1986; Evrard et al., 2000) Holter monitoring was used to detect arrhythmias. In some cases the monitoring may be continued beyond the hospital stay for 30 (Guarnieri et al., 1999) up to 9 Continue Reading...
(Freyhofer 104) Globalizing clinical research has reportedly proven to be one solution for America's pharmaceutical paradox. Doctors prescribe more than 10 prescriptions for the average American each year. Only one person in 350, however, will subm Continue Reading...
Merck and Vioxx -- Research Data How did Merck misuse research data to support their decision for marketing the COX-2 Drug Vioxx? In November of 1998 the pharmaceutical company Merck submitted Vioxx's application to the Food and Drug Administration Continue Reading...
From the lung apices to the hemi-diaphragms, 1.5-mm thick sections were taken at 10-mm intervals. The images were prospectively reconstructed with the use of a high-resolution bone algorithm in diagnosing the lung lesions. The HRCT results were then Continue Reading...
Laughter and Healing The Effects of Laughter on the Healing Process and the Use of Technology to Track Statistics How Laughter Works Benefits of Laughter Using Technology in Humor Research Humor Therapy The Effects of Laughter on the Healing Pr Continue Reading...
Alzheimer's Disease currently affects more than four million Americans. Alzheimer's is a disease characterized by the progressive degeneration of areas within the brain, resulting in cognitive and physical decline that will eventually lead to death. Continue Reading...
