Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale

For thousands of years, in order to ensure their longevity, mankind has had to find the cures to their diseases and illnesses within the world around them. For most of human existence, we did not have doctors and pharmacies as we know them today. Cures and therapies were made from plants and animals found around people’s native environments. As mankind progressed and industrialized the world, we learned how to control the world around us, how to manipulate it on an atomic and molecular level.…

illness. In these times, it was believed that institutionalization had negative impacts on both patients and staff and these symptoms of mental illness were associated with criminality and evil spirits (Morrow, 2010). Mental health is such a prominent issue in Canada and affordable care is scarce. In March of 2009, more than 6000 Ontarians were forced out of institutions and into their communities when the last three large-scale government run institutions…

A hallmark of ISCM is rapid neurological progression with up to 30-45% of symptomatic patients presenting with Brown-Sequard or pseudo Brown-Sequard Syndrome [28, 52, 59]. Up to 50% of patients with ISCM are asymptomatic until death [51]. However, once symptoms develop, disease course can be devastating with up to 75% of patients experiencing progression to full neurological deficit within one-month and…

Turon-Estrada, Juvinya, Ballester, Vilatta-Franch, 2012; Oudman & Veurink 2014). Temperature, noise, and lighting were three identifiable environmental factors that contributed to quality of life. If any of these factors are off-balance there can be negative behavioral reactions (Garre-Olmo et al., 2012). The Environmental…

Genetic modification is the elimination of a certain gene containing undesirable trait and adding another gene containing the desired trait. The process includes getting the desirable material from a donor and not from the parents. Parents now can get all the characteristics they desire in their babies. They can also eliminate certain health problems the child might inherit from his/her parents. Genetic modification and manipulation has become a controversial topic since it has ethical and…

until adulthood. These issues include: high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular/respiratory factors and metabolic syndrome. Obesity not only plays a role on your physical health but also psychologically. Obese children tend to have a lower self-esteem, negative body image, and often feel the need to withdraw from society. By using the typical BMI (body mass index) scale, it is important to see which of the four…

Journal of Organizational Behavior J. Organiz. Behav. 25, 67–80 (2004) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/job.243 Workplace deviance, organizational citizenship behavior, and business unit performance: the bad apples do spoil the whole barrel PATRICK D. DUNLOP1* AND KIBEOM LEE2 1 2 Summary School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia Department of Psychology, University of Calgary,…

Capital Punishment: an Act of Justice or Revenge? To many, executing the offender of a heinous and violent murder is seen as an act of justice and retribution, and is an essential aspect of maintaining moral balance, however, perhaps the stronger and more substantial position is that the death penalty is a barbarous act of revenge, motivated by emotion rather than logic. According to the “Retributive Justice Theory” those who break the law deserve to suffer punishment, and likewise, deserve to…

Degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS) with spinal stenosis is one of the leading causes of lower back pain among people over 40 years old. The disorder is characterized by a displacement of one vertebra over the other, typically between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebra of the spine, often leading to distinct signs and symptoms in other areas of the body. Although there are several subtypes of spondylolisthesis, this paper will focus on DS in light of its relevance to today’s maturing patient…

in the US by the International Food Information Council in 2013, 26% of respondents expressed that they are definitely agree with that statement and 46% of respondents agree partially. Thus, it can be concluded that US consumers have a relatively positive attitude towards functional foods. At the moment such leading international food companies as Nestle ́®, Unilever©, Danone and others have their own research centers, where they investigate the impact of novel functional foods and…