Essays Tagged: "genetic factors"
Can Geneics Cause Crime - Are genetic factors more likely to make one person violent?
Can Genetics Cause Crime ?Introduction to Criminal Justice SystemDr. Mike CarlieAre genetic factors more ... ors more likely to make one personperform violent acts? Many doctors and researchers in thefield of genetics have searched for a answer to thisquestion.During 1989-93 one such researcher named Dr. Sul ... isquestion.During 1989-93 one such researcher named Dr. Sullivan foundsome interesting points about genetics and crime.Sullivan while working for the Bush administration'ssecretary of health and human ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Genetics & Genome Projects
Alcholism
is thought to arise from a combination of a wide range of physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. It is characterized by an emotional and often physical dependence on alcohol, and i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Childhood Obesity: Time to Face the Facts.
n the problem or to just shift the blame for the problem. Some children are heavy simply because of genetic factors, some children don't get the exercise they need daily and also a lot of children are ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
This essay about alcohol damage to people who drink it every day and how to prevent it.
is thought to arise from a combination of a wide range of physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. It is characterized by an emotional and often physical dependence on alcohol, and i ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Dysthymia Could be Caused by Biological Factors: A Truth or a Myth?
es that have physiological effects (cite).Little research has been conducted into investigating the genetic factors and no or weak evidence of the role of genetic factors in dysthymia was found up to ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The causes and effects of alzheimer's disease
result the brain of the patient does not function normally. In some cases the disease is caused by genetic mutations. In these cases symptoms usually occur before the age of 60 and take act rapidly. ... t cases the exact cause remains unsolved. Each person is at risk of developing this disease.Several genetic factors are known to increase the possibility. These include a normal modification of the ge ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
A look into identities role in encouraging internet use.
rture the factor that decides a person's identity? In other words, is a person's identity caused by genetic factors or the environment they were brought up in? The question still lingers in today's ps ... rture has fueled the exploration of identity in psychology. Even though many people theorized about genetic determination of one's attributes, lack of technology in the early twentieth century seemed ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Obesity
o stay the same weight for many years without any conscious effort. These differences may be due to genetic factors. Many genes have been identified that either increase or decrease appetite. This mea ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Multiple sclerosis:
ith the onset of symptoms occurring most often between the ages of 20 and 40. Studies indicate that genetic factors may make certain individuals more susceptible to the disease, but there is no eviden ... immune system attacks its own myelin, causing disruption to nerve transmission. It is thought that genetic and environmental factors are involved - but the actual trigger to the disease has not yet b ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Alzheimer's Disease
e of sixty; however cases among younger people are not unknown. Alzheimer's has also been linked to genetic factors; variations in three autosomal dominant have been identified that account for some c ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
The Genetics of Manic Depression and Schizophrenia
on.............3What Is Manic Depression?.............3What is Schizophrenia?..................4The Genetics of Manic Depression..........5The Genetics of Schizophrenia.............. 6Conclusion...... ... ome ways, these mental disorders can be likened to cancer, in that there are both environmental and genetic factors that can cause one to contract the disease. This report shall focus on what manic de ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Alcoholism
is thought to arise from a combination of a wide range of physiological, psychological, social, and genetic factors. It is characterized by an emotional and often physical dependence on alcohol, and i ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Male Pattern Baldness
proximately forty percent of all men have hair loss. Hair loss can result from many things, such as genetic factors, aging, drugs, diet, local skin conditions and diseases that effect the body general ... alled androgens within the hair follicle which are at high levels after puberty. Baldness is genetic, so it does run in the family. Hair loss usually starts on the sides near the front or on th ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Shopping Addiction Article Review
instance, the model of compulsive buying by Valence, d'Astous and Fortier (1988) considers family, genetic, situational, and biological factors, as well as macro social variables, and anxiety; the th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
A concise review of Watson's "Little Albert" tests and the results.
ape an infant child into any sort of specialist he desired, regardless of the child's abilities and genetic factors. Together with his wife Rosalie Rayner, Watson conducted an experiment in 1919 to tr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Aggression
stration-aggression model (Berkowitz)4. Biology of Aggression4.1 Aggression and Serotonin Level4 .2 Genetic Factors of Aggression5. Conclusion6. References 1. IntroductionOne sees on an about 500 ... rain of people and animals which steer aggression, in which this steering of aggression is based on genetic prerequisites but as well the education plays an essential role in the aggression processing ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Compare and contrast two developmental theories of
lue as a concept. At one extreme many claim that individual differences in intelligence depend upon genetic factors, and at the other many argue that environmental factors account for it. In this essa ... perational child, and so on. Another important principle of Piaget?s stage theory is that there are genetic constraints inherent in the human organism ? you can challenge a child to confront new ideas ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Is there really A Gay Gene? As society searches for
too. This wasn?t so in only half of the cases, but on the basis, they claim that ?homosexuality is genetic?, Narth Sept. 30,2002. Dean Hamer, gay gene researcher was asked by Scientific American in h ... or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited. Our studies try to pinpoint the genetic factors.. not the psychosocial factors? Narth Sept 30, 2002 Reporters and Scientist are very ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Can I have your DNA?
ou’ll die at approximately 80 years old? Or you would suffer chronic injuries due to inherited genetic factors? Indeed sometimes it might be good to know such things and avoid such things if poss ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biotechnology
Alcoholism: Nature vs. Nurture
contradicting arguments.Research has shown that alcoholism tends to run in families, and there are genetic factors that explain this pattern. Different models for the way in which alcoholism runs in ... raternal twins share environmental influences to a similar extent, but they differ in the amount of genetic information they share. Identical twins have the same set of genes, where as fraternal twins ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers