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    Presence Of Arachnophobia

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    Dissecting the Presence of Arachnophobia in Northern Kentucky Although Spiders provide a plethora of benefits to our community, they continue to be one of the most feared insects not only in the Northern Kentuckian area, but also throughout the world. In this project, I will hopefully come to a conclusion on why people generally fear spiders, which is an actual diagnosis called Arachnophobia. Spiders are in the arachnid class, which is the reason the condition is called Arachnophobia.…

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    Fear Of Automaton-Phobias

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    During the span of our humanly years we all have things that make us jump, things that may go boo in the night giving a very big fright scare. Maybe something off of Nightmare before Christmas. Either way a phobia is an extreme irrational fear of something. Firstly, ladies and gentlemen I present to you automaton-phobia. Anyone afraid of ventriloquist dummies, wax dummies, scarecrows, and so on have this fear. In short someone with this fear can’t handle anything that falsely represents a…

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    We all have fears, but are they necessarily strong enough to cause us problems? You may not like spiders or snakes and may go out of your way to avoid them, but this is quite different to having a phobia about something. For example, it is natural to be afraid of a snarling Rottweiler, but not to be terrified of a friendly poodle on a leash. Although a phobia is similar to a fear, there is one key difference: the anxiety experienced by the person is so strong that it interferes with their life…

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    of training is important in building up specific strengths in all sport categories. With the appropriate training methods, resistance training can enhance an athlete’s maximal strength, explosive power, and muscular endurance (Fisher et al., 2009). Each sport requires some combination of these components. Nutrition is often considered pivotal in the process of obtaining these performance enhancing adaptations. Just as training methods need to be specific to each sport, careful…

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    Can you sleep at night with no lights or sound available? Are you able to venture through your backyard, without questioning the presence of harmful insects? Despite the pain, is a medical appointment that requires shots bearable? Often taken for granted, these simple trials can escalate to a fear, then continue to develop into a phobia. Patients with phobias are commonly misunderstood because, only on a rare occasion, can another person relate. Although it is known that many people claim to…

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    Trypanophobia Trypanophobia is the severe fear of needles used for medical procedures or in a medical setting. About 10% of people have a needle phobia , it is common in the general population and problems when people avoid receiving medical care because of their fear. Symptoms The people who with Trypanophobia may dread receiving medical care, particularly injections. The physical symptoms, such as the rise in blood pressure, increase in heart rate, increase in stress hormones , fainting,…

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    wrote an article titled, Associations of specific phobia and its subtypes with physical diseases: an adult community study, found that, “From these analyses etiological mechanisms of specific phobia and physical disease can be deduced” (Witthauer 1). Specific phobias are the most common to present themselves in any community and is usually associated with a weighing impairment, like the average fear for instance, needles are taken one step further; the specific phobia tends to go out of their…

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    kind of society assimilation occurs at very low rate and there is one large socioculture with smaller cultures of people functioning with it. An example of this would modern day Switzerland which has three different linguistic groups (German, French, and Italian) that all seem to coexist in a harmony. Segregation relation can be described as separating people based on race or ethnicity into specific groups that have their own rights/roles in society. This can be easily exemplified in the…

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    Angelman Syndrome

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    Angelman syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that affects around 1 in around 12,000-20,000 live births and affects both males and females equally. Angelman syndrome is very often misdiagnosed as autism or cerebral palsy. Angelman syndrome is not an inherited disease, and is instead caused by a change in the E3 ubiquitin protein ligase gene (UBE3A) on the maternal chromosome 15. This change prevents the chromosome from functioning properly. It occurs as a random event during the formation of eggs…

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    His culture plays several roles in the diagnostic process and may have an influential pathogenic impact as triggers of psychopathology. Culture shapes mental…

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