Category: /Business & Economy/Accounting
, the organs may deteriorate or stop functioning altogether.
An excellent example of this argument is the popular case of Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo, a Florida resident who suffered from bulimia, an eating disorder in 1990. She was severely disabled for over 15
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is a complex developmental disorder that most usually surfaces sometime during the first 3 years of life (Ackerman 1997). This rare multifactoral disorder affects three to five out of every 10, 000 school-aged children, with males outnumbering females five to one
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Category: /Science & Technology
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder
Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disorder (CMT) is the most common type of hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN), occurring in one of every 2500 births. The mean age of onset of clinical symptoms is 12.2 7.3 years
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Category: /Social Sciences
to 1995, making the stimulant one of
the most prescribed drugs in the country. No one knows exactly what's
behind the surge in Ritalin use, but experts speculate it's due to everything
from increased awareness of attention disorders in schools
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Category: /Literature/English
in mood for at least two years. In children and adolescents, Dysthymia may last for as little as a year(16). Manic depression, which therapists refer to as bipolar illness is the most dramatic mood disorder. Its victims moods swing from depression
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Category: /Social Sciences/Controversial Issues
gender identity disorder .
What makes a woman a woman and a man a man? Is it nature? A persons genetics, or is it nurture? The way a person is raised. The way a female and a male are raised from birth decides what gender the person will become. Gender
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Category: /Recreation & Sports/Mental Health
uptight, controlling, and not much fun.
'She's obsessed with him' is a way of saying your
friend is hopelessly lovesick. That is not how
these words are used to describe Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder or OCD, a strange and
fascinating sickness of ritual
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Category: /Recreation & Sports/Mental Health
Cerebral (Cerebral- Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum) Palsy (Palsy- A weakening or debilitating influence) is a disorder usually caused by brain damage occurring at or before birth and marked by muscular impairment. Often it is accompanied
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, at least
half are autistic and the remainder have some other kind of developmental disorder. "In June,
2002, a paper by Darold A. Treffert and Gregory L. Wallace entitled "Islands of Genius"
appeared in Scientific American. (Treffert and Wallace 2002
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Category: /Social Sciences/Sociology
standards, finding a mate, or climbing the social ladder leads many women to becoming anorexic.
Anorexia is a form of extreme dieting associated with a woman's psychological issues about her weight, power and control. This kind of eating disorder often
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