Essays Tagged: "exact cause"

Schizophrenia

chizophrenia is a biological brain disease affecting thinking, perception, mood, and behaviour. Its exact cause is unknown but overwhelming evidence points to faulty chemistry or structural abnormalit ...

(6 pages) 167 0 4.1 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gherig's disease)

pproximately 60 percent of those affected are male, 40 percent are female.Little is known about the exact cause of ALS at this time, although it can be traced back to chromosome 21. The defect is inhe ...

(2 pages) 56 0 2.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Multiple Births

s can also vary from race andgenetic background. Scientist and researchers do not know what the exact cause of thesevariations is but many of them feel that it is caused by hormone differences ...

(4 pages) 67 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

This is an essay that compares modern and old nationalist movements. It also briefly describes the meaning of Nationalism.

common characteristics, and characterized by a feeling of union within the people. No one knows the exact cause why it began, but people say that it was a result of disintegration of societies to form ...

(2 pages) 54 1 2.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

This is an in-depth 10 page paper on schizophrenia.

was first recognized as a mental disorder and researchers have been searching for a cure since. The exact cause of schizophrenia is still unknown and scientists are certain that schizophrenia has more ... prove this theory, scientists study identical twins. Due to the fact that identical twins have the exact same genetic make up researchers will be ableSchizophrenia2to determine if heredity is the mai ...

(10 pages) 282 0 4.3 Nov/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders

Alcoholism and Alcohol Dependence.

ers, marital difficulties, job loss, or automobile crashes. Medical science has yet to identify the exact cause of alcoholism, but research suggests that genetic, psychological, and social factors inf ...

(13 pages) 252 0 4.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Crime and Poverty of Belize.

hip to poverty? Such a question at first may seem unanswerable because we could never pin point the exact cause of such worldwide problems. Crime and poverty have been around from time was time and th ... ers like these in real life, too, and you read about their crimes every week in the newspaper. What exactly, is a crime then? A crime is any act, which breaks the law or fails to obey some requirement ...

(8 pages) 66 1 3.5 Sep/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

"Metastatic Uterine Cancer".

INTRODUCTIONCancer is an ongoing problem in society. With not one exact cause there is no perfect prevention or cure. You are someone you know are more likely than yo ...

(6 pages) 41 0 3.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Paper on Cerebral Palsy

ondition usually occurs during birth or infancy and is more frequent in underdeveloped nations. The exact cause can not always be determined but according to Yahoo health premature infants have a high ... vailable to treat individuals who suffer from Cerebral Palsy. Since no two children are affected in exactly the same way individual treatment options may vary. Some treatment options include physical ...

(4 pages) 70 0 4.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Anorexia and Bulimia

on's body and mental state, forcing them to become emaciated and often depressed. There is no known exact cause of either anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa, but many factors play a role in the initi ...

(4 pages) 43 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The causes and effects of alzheimer's disease

s are a result of an overproduction of a protein, which destroys the nerve cells. In most cases the exact cause remains unsolved. Each person is at risk of developing this disease.Several genetic fact ...

(4 pages) 113 0 3.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Analysis of "for whom the bell tolls" by ernest hemingway

all that are involved directly and indirectly. Oftentimes, people that are fighting do not know the exact cause they are fighting for; they just know what they are fighting against. The theme of war w ...

(2 pages) 43 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Alcoholism Is One Of The Concerns In United States.

ers, marital difficulties, job loss, or automobile crashes. Medical science has yet to identify the exact cause of alcoholism, but research suggests that genetic, psychological, and social factors inf ...

(2 pages) 37 3 3.9 Nov/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

General Overview of Schizophrenia.

an imbalance in the number of neurotransmitters and/or an imbalance in the amount of dopamine. The exact cause(s) of schizophrenia remains unknown at this time. However, both nonbiological (psycholog ...

(2 pages) 98 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Autism and its Treatment: Applied Behavior Analysis and the Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR) Model.

Child PsychologyAbstractAutism is considered a neurobiological disorder. However its exact origin is not known. There is a variety of treatment approaches available. This paper introduc ... d Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). It is considered to be of neurobiological origin and its exact cause is not known. It usually becomes apparent before age three, disrupts communication and s ...

(8 pages) 160 0 4.2 Mar/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Breast Cancer Awareness

211,000 women will be diagnosed and 43,300 will die (National). It is a continuous disease with no exact cause, and prevention is stressed with early detection. Since its early years of detection, br ...

(10 pages) 80 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Bipolar Disorder

viors such as suicide (Murphy, 2006).Men and women are equally susceptible to bipolar disorder. The exact cause of bipolar disorder is not known, but it is thought to be hereditary. The disorder usual ...

(2 pages) 126 1 5.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Health & Fitness

Child Abuse and Neglect

lone - by 1987 that number grew to over 2.2 million.Causes of AbuseIf we were able to pin point the exact cause of child abuse we would be able to eliminate it, however, there are many causes of child ...

(10 pages) 135 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Anorexia And Bulemia

be defined as self-starvation leading to the loss of body weight fifteen percent below normal. The exact cause of this disorder is not known but attitudes toward body appearance and family factors pl ...

(3 pages) 6 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Leukemia 2 Leukemia In the last 40-50 years science has

od loss, both internally and externally.Leukemia 3 What causes Leukemia? It is unclear the exact cause of leukemia as a whole, but studies have been able to show links between leukemia and en ... 0 children in the United States learn that they have leukemia. The four main groups help to clarify exactly who is at risk of leukemia.Leukemia 4 According to the National Cancer Institute, A ...

(4 pages) 1567 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases