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…marijuana. Next we have what is known as "lasting effect". This is when there is an adverse cognitive affect that can still be detected in heavy marijuana users, even after a day of not using the drug. The deficit could result in THC residue in the brain
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…bral Palsy Cerebral Palsy What is Cerebral Palsy? According to Perlstein it is a "term used to designate any paralysis, weakness, in coordination, or functional aberration of the motor system resulting from brain pathology."(McDonald 7). Most cases…
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…weight loss has occurred in order to obtain a physiological equilibrium (Acumedic, 2003). On a more biological level, studies in obese mice, ob/ob mice, have suggested that obesity could be a result of the protein deficiency of leptin in the brain (Pinel, 2002…
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…mechanisms you need to do the learning that human beings do. They will include some kind of object and number sense that allows us to conceptualize numbers separate from what they innumerate, a set of special representations that the brain uses to keep track…
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…his brain is dead. Now, up to the present moment, it is widely acknowledged that a person is considered dead only when his heart stops beating. Hence, the debate is now on to see if a person who is brain dead can be considered dead as well. Here…
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…anti-inflamatories and pain-killers, while elite athletes knew of and use a sophisticated range of mood and body altering substances. Successful performance in sports depends upon having quick chemical reactions in your brain and a responsive muscles…
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…being by affecting the brain chemicals dopamine and serotonin. It may also cause increased awareness of the senses, hallucinations, increased energy and loss of judgment. <Tab/>However, there are also a myriad number of serious side effects…
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…in appetite, dehydration, nausea, fainting, and death. The long-term effects are anorexia, high blood pressure, kidney failure, stroke, change in emotion, affects memory, and change in brain chemicals. The psychological effects are confusion, depression, sleep…
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…of seeing things blind people will hear or smell things in their dreams. Helen Keller talked of "seeing" in her dreams much as she saw when she was awake (let it be stated that Helen Keller was blind). The subconscious is usually the right side of the brain
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…on the purposes of consciousness, what the mind does and why, and how that information could be put to practical use. It implies that human mental states are not restricted to human biological systems, such as brains. James' idea was to study the causes, conditions…
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