blocking the majority of these receptors‚ especially the extrapyramidal syndrome (EPS) which is most bothersome to both patients and doctors putting often an end to treatment. This inconvenience is explained by the following fact: their antagonizing activity is not directed to the mesolimbic receptors specifically‚ and ends up acting on all D2 receptors in the brain causing side effects. When they block D2R in the striatal pathway‚ we have extrapyramidal symptoms resembling those of Parkinson’s disease
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Drug Courts Elizabeth Johnson was a model student. She was characterized by her teachers as hardworking‚ driven‚ and goal oriented. After being placed on the honor roll and graduating early from Morris High School in Will County‚ Illinois‚ she attended Northern Illinois University to become a lawyer. Within her first year at college‚ her life derailed. She was caught by the police and arrested for possession of marijuana. Johnson was expecting to be placed in prison but she found herself in a drug
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reason I chose the Supreme Court case Browder vs. Gayle was because of its segregation. In the early nineteen hundreds blacks and whites were separated‚ if they were to walk into a restaurant they had to sit in the back‚ the blacks had different bathrooms than the whites‚ and they weren’t near as clean or high in class as for the whites were. And this was a time when everybody was supposed to be “equal”. There were several cases that blacks have tried to reach the Supreme Court but end up falling a little
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Lesch Nyhan Syndrome Lesch Nyhan Syndrome (LNS) was first reported in 1964 by Michael Lesch and William L. Nyhan. It is a rare disorder located on the x chromosome. It is a sex-linked trait‚ which means that it is passed from mother to son. This condition can be inherited or occur spontaneously as a result of a genetic mutation. It usually appears once in every 100‚000 male births. Since the defective gene is recessive‚ females almost never exhibit symptoms of the disease. However‚ they can be
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In 1973‚ the Supreme Court declared that‚ except under certain conditions‚ states may not prohibit a woman’s right to have an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy. This decision affected thirty-one states’ antiabortion laws. It all began in 1970 when a Texan waitress challenged a state law that made abortion a criminal offense. A woman calling herself "Jane Roe"‚ the plaintiff‚ was denied an abortion under the law and she sued Dallas County District Attorney Henry Wade‚ the defendant
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argue that this ever busy lifestyle is from always being connected (through cell phones‚ text messaging‚ voicemail‚ email‚ etc.) and never making the separation from work and play. That is why a growing disease in today’s culture is Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)‚ at about half a million people in America alone. Currently‚ the exact cause is unknown because there is no lab test‚ scan‚ or blood test that diagnoses CFS. It was once believed that this disease was closely linked with Epstein-Barr
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Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) is a medical condition that encompasses various heart-related ailments such as acute myocardial ischemia‚ unstable angina‚ non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI)‚ and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) (Kumar & Cannon 2009). NSTEMI and STEMI begins with atherosclerosis which happens when a plaque known as atherosclerotic plaque is formed from years of cholesterol deposits within the artery wall. When this ruptures the platelets clump
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They comprise of Autistic disorder; Asperger’s syndrome; Rett’s disorder; childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive development. A complex syndrome that can be described as having many different brain disorders with similar characteristics. A child can be diagnosed as having autism based from the age of three if they are displaying “(1) significant
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SILENCE! THE COURT IS IN SESSION By Vijay Tendulkar Study Material Prepared By Dr. Ratna Raman‚ Department of English‚ Sri Venkateswara College‚ Univ. of Delhi‚ Delhi. Edited By Dr. Anil Aneja‚ Department of English‚ School of Open Learning‚ Univ. of Delhi‚ Delhi – 110007. Prescribed for the Discipline Course in English For B.A. (Programme) IIIrd Year Students. 2 “SILENCE ! THE COURT IS IN SESSION” By VIJAY TENDULKAR Objectives Lesson Plan for the students of the BA Program‚ Elective English
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Early discovery is key when fighting a disease like Turner’s syndrome. In 1938 a gentleman named Henry Turner diagnosed the first set of patients with he believed was‚ “Turner’s syndrome” (Turner Syndrome Society of the United States‚ n.d.). At this time Mr. Turner was looking to explain why these‚ seven‚ people had been suffering from dwarfism and a developmental defect sexually. Unfortunately‚ there were probably thousands of people who were not diagnosed‚ and lacked the information needed for
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