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Sherpa People and High Altitude Cultures and Physiological Responses

Acute mountain sickness (AMS)is one of the more common illnesses that inflict travelers to high altitudes (Jansen, Krins, and Basn...

TBI and its Effects

TBI is defined by Clark (1996) as: "an acquired injury to the brain caused...

AIDS Adolescents and Nursing Management

viral disease that attacks the human immune system making it ineffective in fighting disease or sickness caused by microbial organ...

Evaluating Amphetamines and Other Drugs Pharmacologically

fact, which bear analysis. Such analysis can go a long way in dispelling the misperceptions and untruths associated with drug use...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Causes, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Asthma

infants younger than one year (Bozzette, 1996). The virus is extremely potent and has the potential to be deadly (Bozzette, 1996)...

Psychological and Physiological Risk Factors of Teen Pregnancy

In six pages this paper discusses teen pregnancies n terms of the impact of psychological and physiological risk factors along wit...

Environmental and Neurological Processes of Memory

In eight pages this paper examines how memory is formed through various environmental and neurological processes and emphasizes it...

Nursing and Sleep's Physiology

In seven pages this paper discusses sleep in terms of definition and the physiological components that comprise it and their nursi...

Bias and Sensory Perception

In eight pages this paper discusses cultural, racial, and physiological process biases as they influence sensory perception. Eigh...

Overview of Cranial Osteopathy

the physiological versus psychosomatic basis for results, etc. In essence, Osteopathy is a method of physiological healing ...

Alcoholism Causes

This research paper discusses in five pages alcoholism and its causes and includes sociological, physiological, and psychological ...

The History and Utilization of Acupuncture

In fifteen pages acupuncture or the ancient Chinese technique of stimulating pressure points is discussed through definitions, his...

Anorexia Nervosa and Its Possible Basis in Biology

and anxiety has long been considered indicative of triggering behavior inherent to the eating disorder. An impulsive personality ...

3 Substance Types and Their Effects

addicted to the drug, they are less and less able to deal with the reality of everyday life and often hide away in the false secur...

Human Body and the Impact of Stress

shown to disrupt the metabolism, either speeding it up or slowing it down. There has been recognition of the speeding up of the me...

The Physiological, Psychological, and Social Impacts of Methamphetamine

demand because it is cheap and easily available. It is cheap and easily available because it is so easy to manufacture. Methamph...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

Eating, Sleeping, Walking, and the Body's Role

joint. "Intact joint position sense is necessary for normal muscle coordination and timing" (Carpenter et al, 1998, p. 262). Add...

The Impacts of Acid Rain on Water and Soil

that deposition which is lower than seven on the pH scale and the alkaline classification being applied to those depositions which...

Streptococcus mutans and Acid Tolerance

inhabit. It is the home to a number of compounds which interact with living organisms such as S. mutans in both beneficial and de...

Regulation of Body Temperature

are capable of changing their rate of fire in reaction to changes in temperature. If the blood which passes through the hypothalam...

Lead Poisoning

of paint chips. The primary method of exposure is when the child lives in an older homes that have been contaminated by lead paint...

Bioidentical Hormones

are grand variances in price throughout the country, the standard scale is between $250 and $395 and half that much for subsequent...

Cocaine's Physiological Effects

very oftentimes sadly mistaken. This study proved that the brain, after experiencing only one exposure to cocaine, is then "prime...

Social Role Played by Alcohol

period of time to over twenty years as seen in many of the cask matured whiskeys and ports. The production of alcoholic drinks has...

Physical and Physiological Aspects of Tourette's Syndrome

characteristics to be interlaced with short bursts of action potentials (Anthony and Thibodeau, 1983). Because Tourettes Syndrome...

Shift Work Rotations and Circadian Rhythms

but cant or b) individual knows they must move but give themselves every excuse in the book not to (Circadian Rhythm Room 2002, ...

Dreaming and its Purpose

to certain regions of the brain for example does produce definite and specific effects in respect to the subjective experience of...

Overview of Delusional Misidentification

have surgery or wear masks to look like another. The film Face Off demonstrates how someone could be mistaken for another individu...