Brain
Essays

Although human beings have been consuming wine for thousands of years, dating back long before the ancient Greeks and Romans, only recently has the health benefits of wine been clearly demonstrated through a number of…

Bulling is a serious problem in US schools. This current proposal is for a study on the effects of martial arts training for female victims of relational bullying in high school. The current study proposes that training in tae kwon do will lead to reduced incidences of relational bullying, higher levels of self-esteem, and lower levels of depressive symptoms.

The Effects of Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS) and Computerization on Radiology Workflow and Turnaround Time

Traditionally, researchers in various fields of study have generally limited investigations to their area of expertise. Social scientists attend to prescribed areas such as memory, deviance, and microeconomics.

SuccessMaker is a computer-based instructional program containing basic skills-building courseware and applications courseware used to build high level thinking skills and improve student's reading level.

Approximately one out of every seven people in the United States has been diagnosed with a learning disability at some time in their life (Jaffe-Gill & Benedictus, 2007). Learning disabilities come in many forms.

Cognitive science is the study of the way that we perceive, think and understand the warlord around us. There are diffident processes that lead to cognition and understanding. These include the way that human beings…

In this chapter of the DSM-IV Guidebook, an accessory to the DSM-IV manual (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), published by the American Psychiatric Press in 1995, the subject of conceptual issues…

Capturing the anguish and agony which consumes those caring for loved ones at the end of life is an exceedingly difficult task, but essayists Katy Butler and Rachel Riederer have harnessed their unique literary abilities in vastly different ways to achieve the same ambitious objective. Published within the 2011 edition of the annual anthology of American creative nonfiction The Best American Essays, Butler's haunting elegy What Broke My Mother's Heart and Riederer's visceral portrayal of her own injurious accident Patient each deploy disparate rhetorical styles to impart a shared premise. With the rancorous debate over health care and its most efficient and effective form of delivery currently embroiling the nation's political, private and public sectors, penning a polemic railing against the medical industry hardly represents an exercise in intellectual courage, which is why the contributions made by Butler and Reiderer are refreshing in their candid and emotionally honest approach to the issue. The different perspectives offered by both writers result in What Broke My Father's Heart reading as a clinical reflection on illness with an emphasis on choices and consequences, while the power of Patient is derived from its ability to describe illness in a more direct way, conveying both the physical and emotional pain with vivid descriptions.

In this paper I review the symptoms, causes, and existing treatments of both uni-polar depression and bipolar depression. In particular, I emphasize the difference between states of depression and states of mania, but conclude that the two mood disorders share far more commonalities. Both disorders can be diagnosed and treated effectively. Some of the barriers to the treatment of these mood disorders are societal perceptions that engender shame in suffering individuals.