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Effect of the General Public’s Attitude on Individuals with Mental Illnesses Mental illness has been on the media a lot in the past years. With the raise in anxiety and depression rates and crimes that are being blamed on it has been on everyone minds lately. But how does this media coverage affect those who suffer from mental illnesses. In the book Descartes’ Error the author Antonio Damasio speaks for a bit about the difference between diseases of the brain and of the mind. He states “the…

INTRODUCTION Not many know the true range of graphic designers’ responsibilities and just how extensive is the impact of their work on day to day life. With powerful ability to communicate and educate, designers are able to motivate people to make informed decisions and choices about what they do and consume. What is often overlooked is how design solutions affect the world around us. And unfortunately more often than not those solutions are not socially conscious. Therefore such tendency raises…

Introduction The Eating Disorders (ED) of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and Bulimia Nervosa (BN) are two psychiatric disorders characterised similarly by abnormal feeding behaviours whose aetiology currently remains undiscovered. As outlined by the DSM-IV (1994), AN is distinguished as the refusal by an individual to maintain body weight at or above the normal minimum weight for their age and height. Further characteristics include an extreme fear of becoming overweight and a disturbance in the way the…

1. Introduction 1.1 History The lunchboxes which were available earlier were not useful for kids. In 1800s, workers carry metal buckets to store food while going to workplace. In fact, your lunch pail illustrated your place on the economic scale -- a lunch pail meant you couldn't afford a hot noontime meal. This didn't stop children from wanting to emulate their working parents, however Later, kids fashioned their own lunch buckets from tin boxes that were originally used to hold cookies or…

Conclusion Heart rate variability has considerable potential to assess the fluctuations in the autonomic nervous system. Here we have examined the impact of meditation – Dialogue with the Body – on heart rate variability. A relaxing effect of meditation on Heart rate variability was observed. Thus this non-invasive methodology is of substantial utility to evaluate autonomic control mechanisms in spite of an incomplete understanding of the physiological significance of HRV parameters. There…

RESULTS: 1. BEHAVIORAL DATA CATEGORY A CATEGORY B (6a) (6b) Fig.6a: SAM Scale for positive valence low arousal Fig.6b: SAM Scale for positive valence high arousal The valence, arousal and dominance was plotted using SAM SCALE. For low arousal (Fig.6a), the valence ratings are: mean=7.24 and S.D=…

Lamarck described that living beings acquired traits during the course of their lives based on the needs of the organism, and these traits could then be passed on to the offspring of the organism. For example, according to Lamarckism, a giraffe has a long neck because initially, the giraffe wished for a long neck in order to feed on tall plants, and over the course of the giraffe’s life, its neck progressively lengthened as a result. This “change” would then be passed onto the giraffe’s…

Hernandez, M., Mollo, A., Marsal, J. R., Esquerda, A., Capel, I., Puig-Domingo, M., & Mauricio, D. (2015). Insulin secretion in patients with latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA): half way between type 1 and type 2 diabetes: action LADA 9. BMC Endocrine Disorders, 15(1), 1-13. doi:10.1186/1472-6823-15-1. The authors included 95 total participates diagnosed with either LADA (n=32), T1DM (n=33), and T2DM (n-30) between the ages of 30-70 to study the levels of C-peptide and insulin secretion…

Legalization of medical cannabis remains a controversial topic throughout the western world. Despite a lack of clarity as to the long term effects of cannabis, over two-thirds of the 1,500 doctors involved in a U.S. nationwide survey support the provision of medical marijuana as an option for patients, having frequently been cited in various clinical studies as a potent analgesic and anti-epileptic (WebMD, 2014). The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 classifies cannabis as a schedule I drug in…

Introduction Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most common type of epilepsy in adults, affecting approximately 1% of the general population. It is formally classified as neuronal misfiring in the mesial temporal lobes causing spontaneous, recurring seizures. In this review, I will investigate how the use of optogenetics in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) reduces seizures and how it can help us understand the cell types and neuronal circuits that underlie seizure generation. The significance of the…