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The Nervous System: Brain And Spinal Cord
<view this essay>.... system or C.N.S. It is at the top of your head inside your
skull. This soft jelly like mass has three parts. These three parts are
called the cerebrum, cerebellum, and the medulla or brainstem. The function
of the cerebrum is to control voluntary action, which includes speaking,
the five senses, movement, memory, and thinking .Thc second major part of
the brain is the cerebellum. The cerebellum commands balance coordination
and posture. The last major part of the brain is the medulla it is in
charge of heartbeat digestion, breathing sleeping and being awake. These
are all the involuntary function of the body This part of the brain is the
connector between .....
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Meningitis
<view this essay>.... Bacterial is a rare disease but can be very serious and requires treatment with antibiotics. It can occur any time in the year.
affects the fluid lining of the brain. In the blood the virus can be fought off by white blood cells, but in the spinal fluid there is no white blood cells so it cant be fought off. Once the infection starts, it can spread very quickly thought the body. can cause a lot of brain damage in a little while, and can kill in 24 hours.
The disease is often followed by a variety of after-effects, some permenant and physically disabling and some less obvious, affecting the patient emotionally. Although many people will make a .....
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AIDS: A U.S.- Made Monster?
<view this essay>.... and subtitled "AIDS - its Nature and its Origins," is lengthy, has
a lot of professional terminology and is dotted with footnotes.
AIDS FACTS
"The fatal weakening of the immune system which has given AIDS its name
(Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome)," write the Segals, "has been traced back
to a destruction or a functional failure of the T4-lymphocytes, also called
'helper cells`, which play a regulatory role in the production of antibodies in
the immune system." In the course of the illness, the number of functional T4-
cells is reduced greatly so that new anti-bodies cannot be produced and the
defenceless patient remains exposed to a range of infectio .....
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Senility
<view this essay>.... forgetfulness, which is very common in old age and affects recent
memory (Bunch, 1997, p. 106). Although the latter is a source of
frustration, it does not significantly interfere with the individual
activities (or what the individual considers trivial.) Furthermore,
patients with benign forgetfulness usually can remember what was forgotten
by utilizing a number of subterfuges, such as writing lists or notes to
themselves and leaving them in conspicuous places (Horton and Smart, 1984,
p. 320). Individuals with benign forgetfulness also are acutely aware of
their memory deficit, while those with dementia - except for in the early
stages of the disease .....
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Quackery
<view this essay>.... It sounds too good to be true - and it is. But we're
tempted to try the product in spite of all we know about modern medical science
- or perhaps because of it. After all, many treatments we take for granted today
were once considered miracles. How can we tell the difference?
Not all advertisements for health products are false, of course. In fact,
the vast majority aren't .So just what is quackery? Simply put, quackery is the
promotion of a medical remedy that doesn't work or hasn't been proven to work.
In modern times, quackery is known as health fraud. But call it quackery or call
it health fraud, the result is the same - unfulfilled wishes, wasted dolla .....
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Antibiotics
<view this essay>.... molds. Others are wholly or in part synthetic - that is, produced artificially.
Penicillin is perhaps the best known antibiotic. Its discovery and later development is among mankind’s greatest achievements. have enabled the medical profession to treat effectively many infectious diseases, including some that were once life-threatening.
How Antibiotics Work ?
Antibiotics can be bacteriostatic (bacteria stopped from multiplying) or bactericidal (bacteria killed). To perform either of these functions, antibiotics must be brought into contact with the bacteria.
It is believed that antibiotics interfere with the surface of bacteria cells, causing a change in .....
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Stress
<view this essay>.... Information
This question needs to be answered because stress is a problem that all
organizations must deal with; stress can cause poor work performance and lower
employee morale. These factors can increase employee turnover rate and lessen
quality of life. We all must deal with stress; question is how we handle and
control it. With downsizing the buzz word in the modern corporate world,
companies have become mean and lean. Employees are compelled to be more
efficient; they find themselves taking on the work of what used to be two. The
result is longer hours, less time for outside activities, and consequently
increased stress.
According to Busin .....
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Dyslexia
<view this essay>.... it was frequently noted from the 1860s onwards that some patients who had suffered brain injury lost the ability to read and speak. Kussmal, a German physician called this "word-blindness." As more and more cases were reported it was found that there were two types of word-blindness. In one type, a person could not read or write, in the other the person was able to write but was still unable to read. When the brains of these patients were studied they reveled hemorrhages (Copper 1).
Another early case of was reported in 1895. Dr. Pringle Morgan diagnosed Percy a fourteen year-old boy with congenital word blindness. Percy was described as bright, h .....
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