What is cognitive dissonance? Cognitive dissonance, coined by Festinger (1957) refers to an unpleasant psychological state in which an individual's beliefs and knowledge do not align with their actions. Cognition refers to people's ideas and knowledge about the external world, their immediate environment, and aspects about themselves which include attitudes, emotions, behaviours and beliefs. Persons seek to reduce unpleasant states...
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Problem Overview - Magnitude, Scope and Population Affected On October 16th, 2017, the United States Government stated that the American opioid epidemic was now a national health crisis (Department of Health and Human Services, 2019). According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 individuals had died from a drug overdose, making...
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Introduction The emergence of the Ebola virus as a global health threat has necessitated a worldwide commitment to prevention and control strategies. The United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the hubs of international travel and commerce, has proactively engaged in initiatives to prevent the outbreak within its borders. Despite the UAE's geographical distance from the traditionally affected regions, the rapid...
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Thesis: The opposition to vaccination was cultural and built upon societal value in money which resulted in the spread of mass religious hysteria, propaganda, and falsified data. Smallpox is a disease where small blisters pop up on the face, arms, and body. These then fill up with pus and customs develop a rash. It’s a deadly disease. Vaccinations and the...
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For this summative piece, I have decided to look at 'What is the impact on parents when having a child on the autism spectrum disorder.' I believe this to be an important topic worth discussing due to the focus usually being on the child rather than their parents. This leaves the parents feeling neglected that they do not have the...
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Hepatitis C: HCV is a viral contamination causing aggravation of the liver. It is transmitted from individual to individual through unscreened blood transfusions just as debased needles and instruments utilized for inking and body penetrating. Sharing sullied individual consideration things, for example, razors and having unprotected sex are less normal methods of getting the infection. Hepatitis C infection causes both...
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Introduction The spring break of 2020 was unlike any other due to the unprecedented challenges posed by the novel coronavirus pandemic. Traditionally a time for rest and travel, the pandemic forced a reevaluation of what a break means in the context of a global health crisis. Many students, including myself, were faced with the abrupt shift from anticipated vacations to...
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How similar are the brains of London taxi drivers, United States Navy SEALs, and elite athletes? The answer: more similar than they seem at first glance. While they all perform drastically different tasks – from driving a car in a maze of a city, to combat in extreme circumstances, to cycling exceptional distances – their brains have metamorphized to be...
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Systemic Lupus Erythematous Intro/An overview of the disorder Systemic Lupus Erythematous (SLE) is an autoimmune system, chronic, relapsing, provocative, and frequently multi-fundamental disorder of connective tissue, characterized by involvement of the skin, joint, kidney, and serosal membranes. Typically, the safe framework shields the body's tissues from intruders. Along these lines, this implies the resistant cells begin assaulting the cells they...
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Morality is rarely clear-cut without objections or questions. The morality of animal to human organ transplant is no exception. With innumerable factors created by beneficial techniques and harmful tactics, the dispute is far from irrelevant, especially with its crucial influence on life and death. Animal organs being transplanted into humans is lifesaving; however, it is also life taking and therefore...
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In the last decade, the medical industry has seen a significant growth of complementary and alternative medicine. It is estimated that two out of three Australians have used a complementary or alternative medicine, (Andrew Bonney,2016). This can be attributed to their increased credibility, consumer desires for a more holistic approach to health, wanting to prevent sickness and disease and people...
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Research report Claim: Stems cells have the potential to improve life. Research question: Does umbilical cord stem cells or 3D printed mini heart have the most potential to repair or replace damaged cardiac tissue in vascular disease patients? Rationale Cristy Lytal from the Keck School of Medicine of USC claimed that ‘if you lose a limb, it’s lost for life....
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Introduction: An ongoing investigation has indicated that CRISPR can be utilized as a generative method that can treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Because of an examination in mice, it could be created as a remedial choice for humans Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by a defective gene for dystrophin. Duchenne muscular dystrophy occurs in about 1 out of every 3,600 males...
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Medically supervised injection clinics are a topical, yet controversial approach to the issue of drug addiction in Australia. Substance abuse negatively impacts many Australians and it is essential that these implications are minimised. Injection facilities have proven to be effective in decreasing mortality, successfully encouraging drug addicts to seek further health treatment and promoting sanitary practices that reduce issues such...
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Nowadays, as substances are widely used across the nation, substance use disorder becomes a more prevalent disorder in the US. Drug addiction can be defined as compulsive drug use and a loss of control over drug-taking (Zangen, 2010). It is a severe psychological and pathological disorder, which risks body homeostasis and causes cognitive impairments. To understand how addiction develops, scientists...
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Introduction Hospitals are the trusted entities for people when they are affected by serious disease conditions. However, it is an irony that hospital itself creates several complications and puts the needy in a greater dilemma. Hospital-acquired infections are one of the most common complications affecting hospital patients, in which most of them make raises the morbidity and mortality rate among...
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Rationale A muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that cause progressive weakness and loss of muscle mass. It is a genetic X-linked recessive inherited disorder which primally effects males. It is passed down through the mother who is a carrier of the gene. Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) is one of the nine different types of Muscular Dystrophy. There is...
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Inquiry Question: Should funding be allocated towards further research into genome editing as a clinical treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy? Introduction: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a form of inherited neuromuscular disease found in children, causing progressive degeneration of muscle stability. It is as a result of a mutation in the DMD gene coding for the protein called dystrophin. A mutation...
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Chapter six, Brain Lock Unlocked, Using Plasticity to Stop Worries, Obsessions, Compulsions, and Bad Habits from the text “The Brain That Changes Itself” is the topic of choice for this paper. Neuroplasticity is an intriguing subject and so is the idea of using it as a treatment for neurological disorders through talk therapy. This talk therapy is able to rearrange...
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Abstract Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacteria (major one) that causes deadly disease named pneumonia. It majorly affects the lung portion. Alveoli is an air sac present in the lungs where the exchanging of oxygen from the lung to the body and exhaling carbon dioxide (CO2) takes place first. The air sac gets filled with fluids, pus, etc which causes inflammation...
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Lady of Oplontis – The Lady of Oplontis was the first hugh tech examination of a Pompeian. Directed and inspected by Estelle Lazer. This archeological discovery opened numerous entryways for the future or x-ray examinations for archeologists. The Lady of Oplontis was found gripping her tote, which was her last belonging as she fled in dread from Mt Vesuvius' eruption...
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Many communities across Canada have been impacted by very public displays of gun violence. In 2018, the rate of gun violence in Canada reached it’s highest since 1992. While there have been many public debates on gun violence, one question remains unanswered, “How do we stop it?” Canada has had its share of opportunities to commit preventive actions that would...
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Introduction Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) also colloquially known as “acid” is a psychedelic drug often criticised as being dangerous and delusion inducing but is also heralded by many scientists and psychologists as mind expanding, wonder drug. LSD is a derivative of ergot; ergot is a fungus which frequently grows on both rye and wheat. For centuries ergot was utilised as...
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Cognitive Dissonance According to Hinojosa, Gardner, Walker, Cogliser, and Gullifor (2017, p.173), Cognitive Dissonance Theory (CDT) exists when an individual experience conflicting or contradicting situation between two or more cognitions, in which results in dissonance that causes unpleasant feelings of one’s self. The core of this literature review revolves around Conceptualisation and Research Summary, which includes Antecedents and Outcomes, of...
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Healing and Autonomy There exists a contradiction between spiritual faith and medical intervention, globally. The Holy Books of Christianity, for instance, have not offered the right direction on the illness intervention. It remains a hot topic whether Christians should follow their faith or seek medical treatment in case of illnesses. Healing and Autonomy case study offers a similar scenario where...
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Rationale “Congenital diseases are disorders that are present before or at birth.” (spine-health, 2019) “Huntington’s disease is a hereditary disease that is more common in European descent.” (ghr, 2019) It will usually affect hosts at the ages between 30-40, but there are cases of juvenile Huntington’s disease and late-onset. 'Huntington’s disease causes the breakdown of nerve cells in the brain'...
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Mass Vaccinations in Measles Claim Mass vaccination programs are successful in the control of diseases. Rationale ‘A disease is an abnormal condition affecting a living organism… generally understood to be medical conditions that involve a pathological process associated with a specific set of symptoms.’ (Healio, 2012). Infectious diseases are caused by organisms also known as pathogens; bacteria, viruses, fungi, and...
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Huntington's disease is an inherited brain disorder that is caused when specific cells in the brain die. This leads to loss of cognitive function, loss of walking, eating and swallowing and eventually death. Symptoms typically start between 30-50-year old Huntington's disease is extremely rare and affects one in every 10,000 people. Huntington’s disease is caused by a mutation of the...
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Introduction The legal requirements and professional behaviours are set by the code of conduct for the nurses. The code of conduct for the nurses further describe the principles that are to be maintained in professional practice in order to maintain effective professional practice. This code is abided by the National law made for the nurses in Australia. The code principles...
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I am here today to express my newfound knowledge of drug addiction, and how my knowledge has led me to believe how decriminalizing drug addiction is the only way to help addicts. Let’s start with what you think you know about drug addiction and what I thought I knew about drug addiction too. Let’s say the back row took heroin...
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