Mental Disorders
.... purposes, most countries follow the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). For clinical use in the U. S., the American Psychiatric Association in 1980 adopted a third edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-III); an extensive revision (DSM-III-R) was issued in 1987.
Most classification systems recognize childhood disorders (including mental retardation) as separate categories from adult disorders. Most distinguish between organic, somatically caused states and non-organic (sometimes referred to as functional) conditions. Psychotic disorders are also commonly sepa .....
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Teen Drug Use In The United States
.... sleeping medication, anti-depressants, marijuana, and inhalants. These drugs are known to relax you. They put you in a mild comfortable stage of euphoria. Stimulants may include anything from cocaine to any sort of amphetamines; and to a much lesser degree, caffeine as well as nicotine. These types of drugs stimulate nervous tissue in the brain and central nervous system unlike depressants, which do the exact opposite. Yet both types of drugs alter your physical and mental condition.
Cannabis for example, is the most common and widely used drug in the United States by teens. The drug is most commonly referred to as marijuan .....
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Medical Uses Of Marijuana
.... Weld of Massachusetts, openly endorse medical legalization. The editor of the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, Jerome Kassirer, lambasted the Clinton administration in an editorial entitled, "Federal Foolishness and Marijuana," that received national attention. "To prohibit physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients," Kassirer wrote, "is misguided, heavyhanded, and inhumane."
In January, Director McCaffrey, finding himself knee-deep in a debate in which he was little qualified to participate, tried to defuse criticism with an announcement that the Institute of M .....
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Anti-Social Personality Disorder
.... a family with a pre-disposition to perform crimes, alcoholic parents that do crimes, irresponsible behavior that persists and parents that do not discipline. The child that will eventually be a sociopath exhibits certain feeling inside that they are inadequate, shamed and because of that they are teased and made fun of. The child characteristics of a future sociopath consist of being incapable of following the rules. The youngster will skip school, bully, steal! , torment animals, run away from home and the child is likely to develop Attention Deficit \Hyperactivity Disorder or AD|HD. At an earlier age than their peer group the c .....
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Critique On The Concept Of Intelligence
.... three factors make a person stupid. Yet an IQ test is based on what people know, so according to traditional IQ tests if Mary, age 12 went to a better school than Suzy age 12, and was taught more information that happened to appear on an IQ, Mary would be considered the smarter one. But when presented with the same opportunity Suzy scored the same as Mary. Does this mean that Suzy was more stupid than Mary was before she was given the information? I highly doubt it.
To further reiterate my point, there are people who are said to have Multiple Intelligences (Gardner, 1983), this is a mental condition where a person has t .....
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
.... for a period greater than 6 months, during
which this person has been bothered by these concerns for
more days than not.
B. The person has difficulty controlling the anxiety and
worrying.
C. The anxiety and worry are associated with at least 3
of the following symptoms:
1) Restlessness or feeling keyed up or on edge
2) Being easily fatigued
3) Difficulty in concentrating or mind going blank
4) Irritability
5) Muscle tension
6) Sleep disturbances
D. If another psychiatric disorder is present, the focus
of the anxiety and worr .....
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Factors That Influence Drug Addiction
.... addict each substance is. The Vietnam Veterans, who used heroin during the war, are an excellent example of how availability strengthens the addiction process. Opiates were very easy to obtain in Vietnam, and as a result ten percent of our soldiers tested positive for heroine use during the war. Upon their return home, Robins et all studied 860 men for their drug use. Their study stated that twenty percent of the men tested (at discharge) were addicted to heroin. Three years later they tested the same men under the same criteria and only two percent were addicted. The most widely understood explanation to this phenomenon i .....
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Autism
.... manners, habits, and compulsions. They might display rocking, hand flapping, strange food preferences, no eye contact, head banging, an insensitivity to pain, and other dangerous behavior. They are also often infatuated with inanimate objects.
About 50 % of all autistic individuals are mute, or only speak once or twice in their entire life span. Non mute autistic people can produce words and sentences, but have trouble using language as an effective means of communication. If they do develop useful speech, it starts to make sense and have purpose around the age 6 or 7. Even the best functioning autistic stutters, and h .....
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The Dangers Of Smoking
.... to me, considering how many firends that I hang out with that smoke. Another problem is that young people start smoking cigarettes way too early. Around 80% of adult smokers said that they started to smoke sometime before their 18 birth day. The reason that this is such a big problem is that nearly 3000 children between the ages of 12 and 17 become regular users each day. This is just a few of the many reasons you should consider, about the dangerousness of smoking.
There are many ways in which smoking and realted illnesses can be cut down. In come and education plays a large role in the amount of smokers. The Bureau of th .....
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The Dangers Of Cigarettes
.... and get knocked over and cause a mess.
Cigarettes would also cause an inconvenience since all the time I would have a cigarette my throat would get dry. The dryness would cause me to get up for a drink or if I was out somewhere, I would have to buy something to drink. I also hated the thought of wealthy, greedy cigarette companies making money off my sweat and blood. It is estimated that the average smoker spends the average of $1300 a year on cigarettes.
The rich may keep getting richer, but--at least as regards cigarettes--with no thanks to me.
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AIDS
.... be transmitted through sharing of non sterilize needles and syringes, sexual intercourse, blood transfusion, and through most bodily fluids, it is not transmitted through casual contact or by biting or blood sucking insects.
Causes
HIV is primarily a sexually transmitted disease, it is transmitted by both homosexual and bisexual and heterosexual activity. The first recognized case was among homosexual and bisexual men. Many numbers of studies have shown that men who have sexual partners and those who practice receptive anal intercourse are more likely to be infected with HIV than other homosexual men. Researchers found a .....
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Dyslexia
.... Pringle Morgan diagnosed Percy a fourteen year-old boy with congenital word blindness. Percy was described as bright, healthy and skilled at mathmatics. He, apparently, however had difficulty reading and writing. In 1897 several cases similar to that of Percy were investigated. In 1900 Hinshelwood described word-blindness was a disorder that occurred in children with otherwise normal brains. The defect was disscribed as a disability in learning to read where attempts to teach the child by traditional methods had failed. Hinselwood suggested that this disorder was not an organic defect and that it resulted from abnormal brain .....
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