Narcolepsy

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, otherwise known as ADHD, is a common neurobehavioral disorder that affects at least 10% of the children in United States (Bálint et al., 2009). Once thought by many that ADHD retrogrades or goes away as the child goes through puberty, but scientific researchers suggest differently. ADHD continues all the way into adulthood, if untreated the individual would have hard time coping in a social enviroment and develop to their full potential. (Fitzgerald &…

Waking up unable to move or speak, thinking that you are trapped in your own body. You might even see things but, you can’t even react to it. Some people think demons, aliens, and or ghosts are responsible for this phenomenon. All these are just hallucinations accompanied by extreme fear. They just see things that are not physically present. However, that doesn’t mean those people that experience this are crazy. It’s called sleep paralysis. Over the centuries, symptoms of sleep paralysis have…

Someone wakes you up in the middle of the night and asks you what are you doing?! You wake up confused and ask yourself the same thing. The person who woke you up is describing you doing some odd activity that you were not consciously aware of. If something like this has happened to you or someone you know, then you or that person was probably sleepwalking. As someone who used to experience sleepwalking first-hand, it can be a little scary at first but it is a natural sleep disorder.…

Your employer holds a meeting one day and informs all the employees that they will be required to receive a flu shot each year, per company policy, from here on out. Is this fair? What is the benefit to the patients? What is the benefit to you? Is this even legal? Do you have to get the shot? What if your religion doesn’t allow this to happen? These are all questions I will be addressing today. I will also be discussing my opinion and why I believe this shouldn’t be allowed. To start,…

Human experimentation Since the beginning of mankind we have managed to be the dominate species of the Earth; however, we are far from peaceful with warfare, slavery, starvation, and experimenting on our own kind. Humans have done some pretty twisted and inhuman things such as the Nazi Holocaust Experiment and Project MK-Ultra. Before, during, and after WWII, Nazi’s conducted many medical experiments on the Gypsies, Slavs (Large group of Ethnolinguistic in Europe), and Jews they held in…

Introduction: We should make a good environment around us while going to sleep to have a comfortable and a better sleep. Sleep hygiene is the behavioral and environmental practice that is intended to promote better quality sleep (Voinescu et al., 2015) Making a good sleeping environment that is quiet, dark, and is recommended. The sounds around you, if there is a source of light in your room, and the bad temperatures will make you wake up while sleeping and this disrupt your continuous sleep…

colleagues examined the effect of changing school starting times from 8:25 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. Almost half of the students who began school at 7:20 fell directly into REM sleep by 8:30 in an average of only 3.4 minutes, a pattern similar to patients with narcolepsy (“Sleep Deprivation”). Technology and social media also play a role in preventing teenagers from getting enough sleep. 72 percent report to using their cellphones while trying to sleep and 28 percent leave it on, only to be awakened…

A prescription drug or prescription medication is a drug that you get from a pharmacy or some sort of a professional medical source to be dispensed. In this society it is very easy for young teens to get their hands on prescribed drugs without a Doctor 's consent, this is because there aren 't many rules on prescription drugs. People get the drugs from sellers that they know such as family, friends or a person on the street . People also use them for many reasons such as wanting to fit in, lose…

by the generic name Methylphenidate, is a central nervous system stimulant that is heavily prescribed in the United States. It is used to combat the effects of attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and narcolepsy. Ritalin is designed to prevent hyperactivity and impulse control, prominent symptoms of ADD and ADHD. It does this by affecting the chemicals in the brain and nerves that cause these types of symptoms (Ritalin: Uses, Dosage, Side Effects &…

Araminta Ross, more commonly known as Harriet Tubman, personified strength and freedom. She was very well known for her efforts with the Underground Railroad and was an advocate for abolishing slavery. Tubman accomplished many things because of her constant persistence to make the world a better place. It was because of her persistence to end slavery that the world has evolved to what it is today. She was a determined, hardworking individual who never gave up on her dreams, not matter the…