... the symptoms are rather mild and increase in severity at a gradual rate over a period of years. Excessive Daytime Sleepiness (EDS) and Cataplexy are the two primary symptoms of . Other symptoms include Disrupted Nighttime Sleep, Sleep Paralysis, Hypnagogic Hallucinations, and Automatic Behavior . However, only 20 to 25 percent of patients suffer the complete range of symptoms. EDS is usually the first symptom to be noted. It is sometimes expressed as sleepiness, tiredness, lack of energy, sleep attacks, or an unusual susceptibility to becoming sleepy or falling asleep. In general, the development of EDS is a slow process and requires several years to become an ob ...
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... B. A quote to end with. "A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist." -Steward Alsop, Stay of Execution Euthanasia has become an issue of increasing attention because of Dr. Jack Kevorkian's assisted suicides. As of October 21 Kevorkian has assisted in nineteen suicides. Because of the increasing number of suicides in Michigan, Gov. Engler signed an anti-suicide law in late February that made doctor-assisted suicides a felony. During the 21-month trial period of the new law anyone assisting in a suicide can be sentenced to up to four years in p ...
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... and cerebral lobes1. The second is the hippocampus (meaning seahorses in Greek which it resembles2) which is located below the cerebral cortex and responsible for short-term memory. If we study samples of these two section, we would find three irregularities which are not found in normal brain matter. These three are called neurofibrillary tangles, neuritic plagues and granulovacuolar degeneration3. A nerve cell has numerous axons and dendrites coming out of it. A neurofibrillary tangle is when the neuron changes. A number of dendrites are missing and the nucleus is filled with protein filaments resembling steel wool. Although all elderly people has a few ...
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... by the time a teen turns 18 he/she has seen an estimated 100,000 beer commercials. With teens making up a large number of TV viewers and radio listeners, they are exposed to these advertisements on a daily basis. Some ads put out by beer companies seem to be directed at a younger crowd. Take for instance the Budweiser frogs and iguanas. They have a playfully image that can be received by children and teens. It is known that drinking alcohol has very negative effects on the human body. Molecules in the alcohol act as neurotransmitters and turn cells off in the Reticular Activating System, RAS for short. When these cells turn off you become drowsy, your cere ...
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... of deadlock among scientists and doctors whether it's hereditary, viral, or a combination of the two, with the disease being hereditary, but with a viral trigger, or just a simple chemical imbalance in the immune system. One thing is certain, though. Some sort of defect in the immune system causes white blood cells to attack and destroy the myelin sheath. There are five main types of Multiple Sclerosis. The first type is Benign Multiple Sclerosis. It is the least severe, has little progression, and takes up twenty percent of all cases. The second type is Benign Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis. It carries symptoms that fluctuate in severity, mild dis ...
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... Century approach to life in the last third of the 20th Century. But who in reality is using arguments of a bygone Century? It is an incontrovertible fact of biological science - Make no Mistake - that from the moment of conception, a new human life has been created. Only those who allow their emotional passion to overide their knowledge, can deny it: only those who are irrational or ignorant of science, doubt that when a human sperm fertilizes a human ovum a new human being is created. A new human being who carries genes in its cells that make that human being uniquely different from any and other human being and yet, undeniably a member, as we all are, of ...
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... normal drinking. College students tend to drink more heavily than other age groups. It is often difficult to distinguish such heavy and abusive drinking from the early stages of alcoholism. How well the person can tolerate giving up alcohol for an extended time and the effects of drinking on the family, friends, work, and health, may indicate the extent of the alcohol problem. More than ten million Americans are estimated to be alcoholic. Alcoholism is found in all ages, cultures and economic groups. It is estimated that 75 percent of alcoholics are male and 25 percent are female. Alcoholism is a worldwide problem, but is most widespread in France, Ireland, ...
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... produce many useful products. According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), “there are six types of asbestos fibers: Chrysotile, Amosite, Crocidolite, Anthophylite, Actinolite, and Tremolite” (8). OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) has categorized asbestos work into four different classes depending on the amount of exposure to asbestos during a specific employment. The categories consist of classes I, II, III, and IV, with Class I work having the greatest amount of exposure to asbestos and Class IV work having the least amount of exposure to asbestos. However, two of the most common health effects of exposure to asbes ...
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... from the beginning of the earliest civilizations as a tool to conquer, kill and destroy and it was usually used as a justification of those actions. People were not responsible for the killings, instead gods were. When people can not handle problems, which arise every day in front of them, they try to hide under the mask called god, but by doing that they do not solve them, they only ignore and try to escape their everyday problems, which makes everything worse. The desperate attempt to explain their own existence took people to the creation of many various myths, which also incorporated in them many different aspect of the culture and everyday life of their creator ...
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... cancer. These numbers are way too high especially for a supposedly educated society such as ours. Two other dangers that relate to this habit are passive smoking and underage smokers. Since 1964 there have been an estimated 3000 deaths caused by second hand smoke. This is kind of scary to me, considering how many firends that I hang out with that smoke. Another problem is that young people start smoking cigarettes way too early. Around 80% of adult smokers said that they started to smoke sometime before their 18 birth day. The reason that this is such a big problem is that nearly 3000 children between the ages of 12 and 17 become regular users each day. This i ...
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