How Has AIDS Affected Our Society?
.... a retrovirus from
people with AIDS and from individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All
three groups of scientists had isolated what is now known as HIV, the virus that
causes AIDS. In 1995 HIV was estimated to infect almost 20 million people
worldwide, and several million of those people had developed AIDS. The disease
is obviously an important social issue.
AIDS has caused many to rethink their own social behavior. People are
forced to use caution when involving themselves in sexual activity. They must
use contraception to avoid the dangers of infection. Many people consider HIV
infection and AIDS to be completel .....
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Huntington's Disease
.... breakthrough in the effort to understand and eventually work toward
a treatment of the disorder.
Our group has decided to have the child. We have a steady income of
$52,000 and are insured through our employers. Our counselor said that it was
souly our decision to whether or not we wanted to have a child, but he warned us
that the child could have a 50% chance of having the disease. However, he did
point out that we were quite young to even be worried about starting a family.
We have decided to have children, but possibly at a later time.
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Huntington's Disease
.... identified in 1993.
While everyone posseses this gene, in someone suffering from Huntington's
disease, the number of repeats of a certain trinucleotide, cytozine-adenine-
guanine (CAG), is much larger than what it is in a normal person. In an average
person, the number of repeats is between 9 and 37. But is a sufferer of HD, the
repeat count is from 37 to 86. While nobody has found a direct correlation
between the number of repeats and the age when symptoms appear, there is
evidence that people with very high numbers of repeats contract the rarer early-
onset Huntington's disease, which usually affects people under the age o .....
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Huntington's Disease
.... mtDNA deletionlevels than agematched controls in the frontal and temporal
lobes of the cortex. To test the hypothesis, the amount of mtDNA deletion in 22
HD patients brains was examined by serial dilution-polymerase chain reaction
(PCR) and compared the results with mtDNA deletion levels in 25 aged matched
controls. Brain tissues from three cortical regions were taken during an autopsy
(from the 22 HD symptomatic HD patients): frontal lobe, temporal lobe and
occipital lobe, and putamen. Molecular analyses were performed on genetic DNA
isolated from 200 mg of frozen brain regions as described above. The HD
diagnosis .....
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Hypnosis
.... past as if it were the present. Also, recently a
scientist discovered that the way the subject's mind experiences time can be
altered so that hours or even weeks can pass in second, from the subjects point
of view. Subjects may forget part or all of the hypnotic experience or recall
things that they had forgotten. The hypnotist may also make "posthypnotic
suggestions" that are instructions to the subject to respond to a something
after awakening. For example, the hypnotist might suggest that, after the
subject wakes up he will have an urge to remove his left shoe, and the more the
subject resists, the greater the urge to remov .....
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Hypnosis In Psychology
.... is still widely exploited by stage
hypnotists and is consequently often the conceptualization held by the uniformed
lay person. Even many trained physicians implicitly adhere to this view, which
in it's extreme form involves some powerful and charismatic hypnotist exercising
some strange power over a hapless and weak-willed subject. In essence, the
hypnotist gets the subject to do something he or she wouldn't ordinarily do such
as stop smoking or bark like a dog. This approach generally assumes that the
unconscious is some passive vehicle into which suggestions are placed. This
approach is one which is viewed as limited in .....
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Observational Abilities Test
.... Care Meeting, University of the Incarnate
Word : World Literature Class, and University of Texas at San Antonio :
Business Statistics Class. The sample sizes and constructs were as follows:
Wilford Hall Medical Center : 30 people - 19 (F) 11 (M)
University of the Incarnate Word : 19 people - 9 (F) 10 (M)
University of Texas at San Antonio: 32 people - 11 (F) 21 (M)
The test subjects were all presented with the same scenario, given the normal
degree of variation. The procedure of the test was as follows: - The
instructor/manager was advised that a test would be
conducted sometime during the period. - A male messenger with .....
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The Effects Of Lead Poison On Children
.... lead containing soil particles get on the child's hands or
clothing and end up in the child's mouth. After the build up of so much lead it
leads to a problem commonly known as lead poison. Lead poisoning has been an
issue since the early 1900s, when the use of lead started being banned from the
manufacturing of paint in foreign countries such as Australia(Monheit, 1996).
Unfortunately the United States did not start banding it until 1978, when it
finally became illegal in our nation. Today 90% of the lead in the atmosphere
comes from the burning of gasoline. This problem has been a large issue since
the 1920s, when the EPA( .....
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Leukemia
.... or repetitive bleeding, easy bruising, and also enlargement of the
liver, spleen and lymph nodes (997).
This disease has been known to cause about "10% of all cancer deaths,
about 50% of all cancer deaths in children and adults less than 30 years old,
and at least 4 million people now living are expected to die from these forms of
cancer (Reagan 1)." Over half of every type of leukemia occurs in people over
the age of 60. Even though so many people have been getting different types of
leukemia, the causes are not totally known. There is evidence that exposure to
radiation can reduce the development of le .....
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Lucid Dreams: The First Virtual Reality
.... enough we will reach an advanced stage of sleep where our body begins
to experience rapid eye movement (REM). It is during this REM period that we
experience most of our dreams. Many scientists try to speculate the reasons for
dreaming through biological our psychological means. This proves to be very
frustrating for someone trying to find empirical meaning and truth about his or
her dreams.
There are countless books written about dreams with just as many
different interpretations and meanings for specific dream references. For
psychics, astrologists, or psychologists who attempt to interpret dreams, there
are numerous factors .....
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Mandatory AIDS Testing
.... applied, it is not practical at all because one is dealing with human
nature, the odd nature of the virus itself, and also all of the stigmas that are
attached to AIDS. Therefore, not only will mandatory AIDS testing not prevent
HIV infection, it will indirectly increase HIV infection because of the adverse
effect it will have on voluntary testers. One of the major flaws of mandatory
AIDS testing is that "it provides people with a false sense of security."(Greig,
p68) When one goes for AIDS testing or more accurately an HIV antibody test
which is also know as the ELISA test (Kolodny, p42), one tests for the presence
of HIV antib .....
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Medical Miracles On The Horizon
.... in almost all concerns. For example,
methadone is currently being used as a therapeutic intervention for some drug
addictions. In addition, various medications are now being given in the
treatment of criminals, like anti-psychotic drugs to curb aggressive or violent
behavior in schizophrenics. A new and improved group of antidepressants is
also being used to treat and reduce the growing rate of suicide in all ages of
our society. Because a very high percentage of homeless people suffer from
psychological problems and/or drug addictions, doctors may also eventually play
a larger role in prescribing medication for these in .....
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