Essays Tagged: "Brain damage"
Alcholism
characterized by an emotional and often physical dependence on alcohol, and it frequently leads to brain damage or early death.Some 10 percent of the adult drinkers in the United States are considere ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Alcoholism and its effect.
lcohol Syndrome, and other than the facial abnormalities you can see he will also later suffer from brain damage and growth retardation. This next picture shows a human liver that has become unusable ... he physical consequences of drinking.1.First of all every time you have an alcoholic drink you kill brain cells.2.The next place in your body alcohol affects directly is the liver.a. This is because t ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Lateral asymmetry in intensity of emotional expression.
INTENSITY OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSION"People have always been puzzled by the functionality of the human brain. However, it was only over a century ago, that after the discoveries of French surgeon Broca ( ... t was only over a century ago, that after the discoveries of French surgeon Broca (1860) -examining brain damage patients- that this fascination was transformed into further empiricism. From such rese ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
A spech on the harmful effects of ecstasy. It includes every part of the speech and it is in outline form. This speech convinces the audience to not take this drug.
drug that makes you loving, mellow, and excited? Just a couple of thing, Ecstasy can cause lasting brain damage and even death.C. Ethos: I worked on a report that was about a sixteen year old girl na ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
This essay describes a student nurse's experience of caring for someone in I.T.U. and the Law, Ethics and Therapeutic Use of Self issues related to this experience.
hich poisoned the kidneys and lead to renal failure. In addition to this Mr Jones may have possible brain damage due to a hypoxic event when he did not get adequate supply of oxygen. He is unable to c ... y his wishes in this given situation.*If the hospital staff does try to keep him alive, he may have brain damage and he may be very unhappy about his subsequent quality of life.The significant backgro ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Are Electro-Convulsion Treatments Harmful?
it works by causing a seizure with an electrical shock. This seizure releases many chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters, which deliver messages from one brain cell to another. It is believe ... mitters, which deliver messages from one brain cell to another. It is believed that this jarring of brain cells stimulates them and makes them work better. It is for people who have the following cond ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Why same-sex marrianges are a fundamental right, titled, "The fundamental right of marriage".
th, but unfortunately, when she was seven years old, John was in a car accident. He suffered severe brain-damage and was unable to recover. When John was in the hospital, Brian was not allowed to visi ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues
Euthanasia.
Coma. Paralysis. Inoperable cancer. Alzheimer's disease. Permanent brain damage. Severely handicapped newborn. Terminal condition. Some of us face these dreaded circum ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Euthenasia
Cause and Effect-Acid Rain
For example, mercury that accumulates in the organs and tissues of the animals has been linked with brain damage in children as well as nerve disorders, brain damage and death.Similarly, another metal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Earth Sciences
This essay about alcohol damage to people who drink it every day and how to prevent it.
characterized by an emotional and often physical dependence on alcohol, and it frequently leads to brain damage or early death.More males than females are affected by alcoholism, but drinking among t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
This essay is about Meningitis. It Has answers to everthing you need to know about meningitis its effects, causes, giving very in depth infromation.
sMeningitis is an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain. People sometimes refer to it as spinal meningitis. Meningitis is usually caused by a viral or ... solves without specific treatment, while bacterial meningitis can be quite severe and may result in brain damage, hearing loss, or learning disability. For bacterial meningitis, it is also important t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Retarded people shouldn't get the death penalty
ird (www.aclu.org/DeathPenalty/... 1). Being mentally retarded does not mean being insane or having brain damage. Mental retardation is a lifelong condition of impaired or incomplete mental developmen ... evolved far enough to reject such executions (Catania 1). Penry was abused as a child, had organic brain damage, and believed in Santa Clause as an adult. When he was twenty-two he was charged with r ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
Cerebral palsy
Cerebral (Cerebral- Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum) Palsy (Palsy- A weakening or debilitating influence) is a disorder usually caused ... re are no actual problems with the muscles or nerves; it is the damage to the motor portions of the brain which disrupt the control movement and posture.The signs and symptoms of Cerebral Palsy will o ... ren who are diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy have acquired the disorder after birth. This results from brain damage sustained in the first few months or years of life and can follow brain infections, suc ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Different areas of the brain are specialised in their functions. Discuss.
Different areas of the brain are specialised in their functions. Discuss.The idea of localisation of function within the br ... so-called science of phrenology. They suggested that there were twenty-seven separate organs in the brain, governing various moral, sexual and intellectual traits. The importance of each to the indivi ... d this may have been flawed, but it first introduced the idea of functional localisation within the brain which was developed from the mid 1800's onwards by clinicians such as Jackson and Broca. Most ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Parkinson's Disease
r about the disease called "the shaking palsy". Around the early 1960s, researchers found a form of brain damage. This lead to the first treatment for the disease suggesting ways for more effective th ... up of conditions called "motor system disorders" (movement of the body). Occurs when an area of the brain known as the "substantia nigra" is damaged, and can no longer make dopamine(, the neurotransmi ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Cell Phones and Driving
to one's health. Disregard the news reports you hear so often which associate cell phone usage with brain damage and tumors and become aware of the injuries that can result from talking on the cell ph ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Ecstasy
cation. Ecstasy is thought to produce an overall sense of happiness and well being by affecting the brain chemicals dopamine and serotonin. It may also cause increased awareness of the senses, halluci ... learning and memory, nausea, chills, rapid/irregular heartbeat, high blood pressure, heart attack, brain damage and death. Research by Dutch scientists also show that female heavy ecstasy users, when ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Stroke Project
Strokes are the third greatest cause of death in America, next to cancer and heart attacks. The brain heavily relies on its blood flow and if the course is obstructed the brain will lose its suppl ... on its blood flow and if the course is obstructed the brain will lose its supply of oxygen. If the brain lost oxygen for a matter of minutes then it would the part of lacking oxygen would literally s ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Marijuana myths. an informing paper on the myths the government tells about the use of marijuana
1. Marijuana causes brain damageThe most celebrated study that claims to show brain damage is the rhesus monkey study of ... four monkeys), its failure to control experimental bias, and the misidentification of normal monkey brain structure as "damaged". Actual studies of human populations of marijuana users have shown no e ... rom 1977, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed no evidence of brain damage in heavy users of marijuana. That same year, the American Medical Association (AMA) off ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots
after being pulled over for speeding on March 3, 1991. Rodney King suffered eleven skull fractures, brain damage, and kidney damage, all in under two minutes. The four LAPD officers were charged with ... beating King with their batons. King ended up having eleven skull fractures. He also suffered from brain and kidney damage. Officers were not aware that a man named George Holliday, who lived nearby, ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism