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Neuroeconomics: the neuroscience of decision making Neuroscience is a scientific field that studies brain activity though changes in brain blood flow. Neuroscience is the discipline in charge of studying through the nervous system activation that occurs in areas of the brain. The body receives information by its interaction with the world and that information gets through our senses, that information is caught from the nervous system and passes through the spinal cord until it arrives to the…

In society color represents numerous things, in today’s world red means stop and green means go. In ancient and medieval times the color purple symbolizes wealth and prestige. People often use color to convey an emotion, blue is associated with sadness, green with envy, and pink with love. F.Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, chronicles Jay Gatsby’s relentless pursuit of his long lost love, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby’s pursuit of this forbidden love brings Gatsby from the lowest of the lows…

Social Stress: Theory and Related Topics Orgil Altankhuyag Social Stress : Theory and Related Topics By Orgil Altankhuyag 20120123046 MBB S(Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery) student of Anhui Medical University Submitted in 2015/2/27 Key words: Symbolic interaction, Functionalism, Serotonin deficient, Stressors, Life events, Individual, General Adaptation Syndrome Word count: Abstract In this project, I want to discuss about stress, social stress theories, theories…

Chronic depression, also referred to as dysthymia or chronic depression is a mood disorder. Chronic depression is defined any feelings of hopelessness and unhappiness that persists for more than two weeks, and it is different from psychotic depression. With psychotic depression, the illness is accompanied by some form of psychosis, such as delusions, detachment from reality, and hallucinations. In addition to emotional disturbances, chronic depression is also like to sensory disturbances, such…

Describe the setting: Legacy Salmon Creek Emergency Department (ED) check-in is on the first floor for both pediatric and adults. Once patients are checked in and then the patient is taken to the pediatric department is on the second floor where triage and emergency care occurs. The second floor is set up like an inpatient floor, where each patient gets their own room, and computer and vital machines are all in the room. The right side of the floor is used for adult emergency care if there is…

Since Watson and Crick unraveled the structure of DNA, much controversy has sparked regarding biotechnology and its ethics. According to BBC, biotechnology includes “any use of science or technology to alter the characteristics of a particular breed or animal.”1 Many believe that biotechnology will have unexpected adverse consequences and some claim that it is tampering with God’s creations. Contrary, many scientists counterargue that it has shown potential in producing unprecedented vaccines,…

After hearing the sound of fireworks, the barking of a dog, or even just the sight of a weapon, something in a persons mind with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) will trigger. Horror will constantly torment the mind, no matter what or where the person is. This is part of what people diagnosed with PTSD go through on a daily basis. Unfortunately, little is known about why the human body induces this mental disorder, or why it takes so long to recover from. However, based off recent research,…

OESTRUS SYNCHRONISATION IN CATTLE SHELEMBE KHOLEKA INTRODUCTION Most beef and dairy farms in Africa use a pasture based breeding and calf rearing system which requires them to manage their herds such that calving and maximum milk production coincides with the period when the grass and pasture is good and nutritious which mainly occurs during spring and early summer (Xu et al., 1997; Lane et al., 2008). In order to maintain short breeding and calving seasons that would result in calving and peak…

Analyse Heath Information Define Hypertension and arteriosclerosis. How are they often related? hypertension is defined as elevation of the arterial blood pressure above the normal range expected in a particular age group. In other words, it refers to HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. On the other hand, arteriosclerosis refers to any of several conditions affecting the arteries. The term is often used interchangeably with atherosclerosis, a disease of the arteries caused by deposition of fatty plaques in…

In the story Becoming Dr. Q we are taken through vivid memories of triumph and despair. There is much to be seen in these stories shared by Dr. Q, most speak on cases that boggle the world of medicine as a whole while others are common cases that are yet to be uncured by science. It is in those respects that I feel a recurring theme of this life story is that of the personal effect that every patient has had on Dr. Q. He often speaks about the impact that these lives have had on him both in a…