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    Emotional Chemistry

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    bronchioles in the lungs and causes other results. Cortisol is also a result of stress of a person and regulates glucose, blood pressure, blood sugar, immune function and inflammatory response. Oxytocin is a hormone that is used for reproduction in people and is used during sexual orgasm in couples. Oxytocin is sometimes referred to as the “love hormone” because of the positive emotions that are released towards one’s partner while “in love”. Acetylcholine is the hormone that controls the…

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    dogs can love. The test showed that “dogs and humans were engaging in cross-species gaze-meditated bonding using the same oxytocin system.” Oxytocin is a hormone that works as a neurotransmitter in the brain, also known as the “love drug.” The article later says that when “humans and dogs stare into each other’s eyes, they each register a spike of the so-called ‘love drug,’ oxytocin.” This shows that dogs can love. Which helps prove that a love…

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    Do not allow the medical speech or view initiate you: Cephalo (head) pelvic (pelvis) disproportion (one's too enormous for the other) is quite a Latin word for "it is highly unlikely the baby will fit down there" for conveyance. Specialists additionally utilize this as a general term for an absence of progress in labor (your cervix isn't widening, or the head isn't plunging). Cephalopelvic disproportion (CPD) happens when an infant's head or body is too substantial to fit through the mother's…

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    between the parent and child, resulting in the formation of an otherwise weaker bond. She says that the amount of “positive behavioral synchrony,” which is the amount of moments of love and connection the child and parent share, go “hand in hand with oxytocin synchrony,” and fewer moments of synchrony cause the pair to “connect over mutual distress … rather than over mutual affection” (Fredrickson 117). The lack of synchrony between the parent and child cause disassociation between them, where…

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    Brain Abnormalities Essay

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    Parts of the brain most affected There are multiple facial abnormalities that occur with FAS, but brain abnormalities are also a huge aspect of this syndrome.9 Studies have shown that brain volume in patients with FAS is less than people with healthy brains. Another difference is in the parietal and ventral frontal lobes where the gray matter is denser and underdeveloped in babies with FAS. Also, the temporal, inferior parietal lobe, and right frontal lobe were thicker than a normal brain.9…

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    Under the principle of clinical equipoise, individual providers may have beliefs about the superiority of one treatment over another in a randomized clinical trial but the trial is still ethical so long as there is no consensus in the community of medical experts. Stated by Freedman (as cited by Hey.): Instead of emphasizing the lack of evidence favoring one arm over another that is required by [individual] equipoise, clinical equipoise places the emphasis in informing the patient on the honest…

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    Appetite Control System

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    Fig.() The appetite control system in the brain. (A) The structural components of the system include the ARC (arcuate nucleus), PVN (paraventricular nucleus), LHA (lateral hypothalamus area), VMN (ventral medial nucleus), and DMV (dorsalmedial nucleus) at the hypothalamus; the NTS (nucleus tractus solitarii) at the brainstem; the NAcc (nucleus accumbens) and amygdala in the prefrontal cortex; and the cortex. (B) The major appetite signal reception and integration occur in the hypothalamus. In…

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    Depression Therapy

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    Depression affects more than 15 million Americans over the age of 18 every year, that is approximately 6.7 percent of the United States population. Depression is life changing and often times people who suffer from depression struggle to continue their lives normally. Depression is a common mental health illness that many people throughout the world experience and can be found in several popular novels. For instance, in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll seemed to fall into…

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    The dark side of social networking When Andrew Weinreich founded SixDegrees.com, the first social networking site launched in 1997, he had no idea that he had created a tool that would become so detrimental to society. Far too often jobs, friends, and in extreme cases, lives are lost because of what is said on these online sites. But, that is not to say that social networks aren’t valuable for business purposes, finding lost friends, or acquiring information. Martin Baily, PhD, Senior Fellow…

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    Morality Of Morality

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    Everyone wants to be a person of morality. However, as everyone will experience in their lives, that’s no easy task. Throughout everyone’s life, choices arise that are far more complex than simple-answered right and wrong dilemmas. Often a moral pathway may lead to an undesirable outcome, and vice versa. Before examining this in more detail, we must define morality. Morality is the value or extent to which an action is right or wrong. Everyone has their own moral code and sense of right and…

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