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This is a summary of an article titled "Current Thinking on the XYY syndrome." The article was written by Ike Nkanginieme and was published in the 30th volume, the 2nd issue of the Psychiatric Annals Journal in the month of February of the year 2000. The article presents the results of a mini survey that was conducted on the topic of XYY syndrome. The survey was completed by the members of staff and students studying at an urban teaching hospital and includes a review of literature concerning this particular topic.

This paper is about eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa has found to be associated with reduced fertility, miscarriage and maternity rate in women. (Eddy, Dorer, Franko, Tahilani, Thompson-Brenner and Herzog, 2008) Anorexia nervosa may also cause a decreased birth weight of infants; similarly it is higher in children of mothers having bulimia nervosa. Moreover, such conditions may augment risk for prenatal problems and feeding complication that may affect growth in infants. Hence, both infertile and expected women should be screened and treated if diagnosed with eating disorders to maximize the well-being of upcoming generations.

Changes in Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Ovary Axis

Puberty is the time when a boy's body becomes a man's body. It is a time of much physical and emotional growth. The average age that boys start puberty is around 11 1/2 years old. However, it can begin anywhere between…

In order to understand what parents are dealing with who have children with ADHD, we'll look at what the disorder is and how it manifests itself.

In this chapter, the author discusses psychotropic medications, their availability, how they work, what they are used for, different types, risks, and the ethical distribution of them by clinicians.

Health and safety awareness, training, and management are essential components of every workplace in every workplace environment. While some organizations contend with a great deal more health and safety hazards than…

A person in my life who struggles with one of the neuropsychological disorders that we have studied in this module is my sister who has borderline personality disorder. Some clinicians have misdiagnosed her with bipolar disease and apparently that's a common mistake, both conditions do share unstable moods and impulsive actions (Kreger, 2010). Both conditions can experience psychotic behavior though the individuals with bipolar disorder generally have the same manifestations, "Manic individuals experience elevated levels of euphoria. Self esteem and feelings of grandiosity are abnormally elevated and may result in psychoses such as delusions and hallucinations…The individual may show poor judgment in spending money, may become hypersexual, or may make poor business commitments. Other hallmarks of mania are excessive rapid, loud and pressurized speech. The manic person quickly skips from one topic to another and is easily distracted both when thinking and when performing tasks" (Takahashi, 2006).

¶ … birth of a child is often a time of anxiety for both parents and a source of physical, emotional, and mental strain for the soon to be mother. Within a short amount of time however, family members usually become…

Brain tumor is one of the most lethal forms of cancers with more than 13,000 deaths every year in the United States. Though we are still a long way from developing medical interventions that promise total recovery,…