Alcohol- Related Relative Risk of Drivers Fatalities and Driver Involvement in Fatal Crashes in Relation to Driver Age and Gender. JORNAL OF STUDIES ON ALCOHOL.387-395 Problems that motivated the researchers to do this study: * The number of deadly car accidents in the U.S. caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol has increased in the past decades making alcohol one of the main factors of fatal crashes. * The legal level of BAC (blood alcohol concentration) in the U.S. has changed
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The Term “Depression” is often used to describe general sadness or unhappiness. This loose use of the term confuses a normal mood swing with a clinical syndrome Depressive disorders can bring sever and long-lasting psychological pain that may intensify as time goes by. Major depressive episodes – exist in both Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar disorders Extremely sad mood or anhedonia (loss of interest or pleasure in life’s activities) Symptoms last for > 2 weeks Cognitive symptoms (loss
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Emotion: a complex psychological state or response 1) Physiological arousal 2) Expressive behaviours 3) Consciously experienced thoughts and feelings James-Lange Theory: Our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli. Perception of stimulus (car) arousal (pounding heart) emotion (fear) Cannon-Bard Theory: An emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the experience of emotion perception
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increase in speed translates to a 78 percent increase in collision energy that’s nearly double. 13‚000 lives lost each year due to speeding. Crashes where speed is an issue cost society more than $40 billion annually. In the U.S.A. it costs society more than $76‚000 for every minute you gain by speeding. Speeding is often one of several risky factors in fatal crashes‚ because alcohol-impaired drivers are more likely to speed‚ and speeding drivers are less likely to wear seat belts. Alcohol‚ lack of seat
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support the benefits of combination therapy used as maintenance treatment for BAD. Vieta‚ T’joen‚ McQuade et al (2008) conducted a study evaluating the safety and effectiveness of adjunctive aripiprazole to either lithium or valproate in bipolar mania patients who were partially
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The Salem Witch Trials During the years 1692‚ fear of devil worshipping and witch craft swept through the city of Salem‚ Massachusetts. More than 200 men‚ women and children were accused of witch craft. Of those 200‚ 20 people were executed. They were taken down to Gallows Hill where each was hanged for their crime. The trials went on for about a year; more and more people came forth with accusations of others who they thought were practicing witch craft or being possessed by the devil.
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depression. A score of 8 or lower is considered to reflect an asymptomatic state‚ with an increasing continuum of symptom severity as scores increase (Hamilton‚ 1967; Lotfy‚ 1994). The young mania rating scale The Young Mania Rating Scale is an 11-item clinician-administered scale used to measure the severity of mania. Each item is rated on the basis of the individual’s subjective report over the previous 48 h‚ as well as on the behavioral observations of the clinician. The rating of each item is on a
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Diagnosing Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents Before the 1990s‚ it was believed that children under the age of eighteen would have been rarely diagnoses with bipolar disorder. This all changed in the mid-1990s when there were 800‚000 children labeled with bipolar disease and an astonishing number were under the age of five (Carmichael‚ 2008). The
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roposal for a Master Plan for Road safety in lebanon Unfortunately‚ there is no established and implemented national land transport policy including‚ among other things‚ directives concerning the balance between different transport policy objectives (accessibility‚ speed‚ transport costs‚ environmental impact‚ and road safety) and different transport modes (road‚ rail‚ air and maritime). Nor does there exist any long-term‚ nation-wide master plan for land transport. Instead‚ it appears that short
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Sleep Deprivation among teenagers in our country is a very serious issue that is increasing at an alarming rate. Many people believe that as we grow older‚ we require less sleep‚ so a teenager would not need as much sleep as a child‚ but this is very untrue. In fact‚ at the beginning of puberty your body clock‚ or circadian rhythm‚ changes. When this happens‚ a teenager will want to go to bed around 10 or 11‚ whereas they used to go to bed around 8. Most teens do not fully understand how important
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