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they understand the concept before the test date. Students understand how important the test is to their future ahead. (Spector) In acknowledgment of the importance of the test, students are encouraged to acquire performance-enhanced drugs such as Modafinil and Ritalin or students will result to cheating. “Paris, along with Richard J. Stiggins, president of the Assessment Training Institute in Portland, Oregon, believes that more educators are now realizing how standardized tests provoke…

Can’t sleep at night? There is hundreds of reasons why. Everyone has had a rough night of sleep, which brought them to question something being really wrong. Through your lifestyle, anxiety and depression you can cause your own sleeping disorders. Insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea and plenty more effect thousands of people, but all in different ways. Although, there is no cure, you can get treated to ease you back into the right routine. In this essay the most serious and common disorders will…

My first topic on Spinal muscular atrophy affects 1 in 6,000 to 1 in 10,000 people. In 1898, described for the first time the classic infantile form of SMA. In this essay I will be discussing spinal muscular atrophy and its characteristics. I will discuss signs and symptoms as well as some treatments for the disorder. Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disorder that affects the control of muscle movement. It is caused by a loss of specialized nerve cells, called motor neurons, in the spinal…

All people are different when it comes to their experience with addiction and mental illness. Some begin to experience mental health issues during childhood or adolescence and experiment with drugs and alcohol soon after, developing both an addiction problem and a serious mental illness at the same time. Others may seek out drugs and alcohol in an attempt to “self-medicate” a mental health issue that develops in early adulthood or that develops out of an injury or trauma later in life. Still…

The existence of a medication that would provide individuals increased intelligence and performance without any long-term side effects and limited transient effects would seem to be a fantastic advancement in human medicine. Because the possibilities to use such a medication are endless, such a drug would raise issues regarding regulation. Questions such as: Who should have access to the drug? and When the drug can and should be used? will arise. This has the potential to be a very real issue…

Introduction Sleep apnea is a disorder in which breathing is interrupted due to obstruction of the airway. While the individual is asleep, they are unable to breathe for short increments of time. These increments can lasts from 10 seconds to a minute and can occur multiple times during the night. Sleep apnea can be induced by obesity, age, gender, and other factors that are vital to the diagnosis of the disorder. Those suffering from sleep apnea may appear to act abnormally and have cognitive…

Abreaction by: Kimberly J. Hands are tied, twisted mercilessly. Tighter and tighter, The blood locked out, Cold locked in… (Cohen, Giller & W., 1987). Many people that experience DID become suicidal, not only because of the condition but also due to the constant scrutiny they sometimes receive from the media, family and friends (Cohen, Giller & W., 1987). In 1977, Caroline Sizemore had developed 22 personalities, but only three could exists at any given time- for any other personality to…

Think back to when you were a young child and how you imagined you were one of the many superheroes you watched on the Saturday morning cartoons. In your mind you were a perfectly chiseled titan, strong enough to lift a skyscraper right out of its foundation. Or maybe you were able to run at the speed of light, or read minds. Children everywhere have dreamt of having supernatural strength and abilities. As adults, those who study advocate for, and work towards enhancing human abilities are…

Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer is an article written in October 2006 by Bronwyn Fryer, a senior editor at the Harvard Business Review. It states the dangers of sleep deprivation, telling us how it affects our health and performance, as well as how our actions can hurt others. According to the Highway Traffic Safety Administration, sleep deprivation is responsible for 1.35 million automobile accidents in the United States. The article includes an interview with Dr. Charles A. Czeisler, an…

A Sleeping disorder refers to a medical disorder in the sleep pattern of an animal or a person. Sleeping disorders exist in various forms and are categorized depending on their causes and impacts especially on human beings (Lautenbacher, 2012).These disorders can be brought about by an assortment of issues, ranging from teeth pounding also known as teeth grinding (bruxism) to nightmares. Some sleeping disorders have serious side effects and are sufficiently substantial to interfere with normal…