Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Video
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by combinations of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions).
Symptoms of OCD?
The symptoms of this anxiety disorder range from repetitive hand-washing and extensive hoarding to preoccupation with sexual, religious, or aggressive impulses. These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and economic loss.
Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by combinations of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions).
Symptoms of OCD?
The symptoms of this anxiety disorder range from repetitive hand-washing and extensive hoarding to preoccupation with sexual, religious, or aggressive impulses. These symptoms can be alienating and time-consuming, and often cause severe emotional and economic loss.
Brain Plasticity Animation
relted topics:
Brain plasticity and cortical maps
Treatment of brain damage
neuroplasticity
neuroscience
Neurology
Neurophysiology
Neurotrauma
Plasticity of Learning and Memory
Injury-induced Plasticity: Plasticity and Brain Repair
lung cancer animation
All told, lung cancer takes 1 million lives around the world each year. Despite the warnings and the statistics, the toll of lung cancer continues to rise.
Lung cancer is a complex disease. Like other cancers, there is no single cause. Still, there is reason for optimism. Lung cancer is among the most preventable of all cancers.
Smoking remains the greatest risk factor, with the risk increasing with the number of cigarettes smoked and the number of years of smoking. Ever since the 1964 landmark "Smoking and Health Report" of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General clearly linking lung cancer and tobacco use, experts have agreed that the most effective way to lower your risk of lung cancer is never to smoke, or if you do, to stop now.
Studies since then have shown that as many as 9 out of 10 cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking. Even if you don't smoke, your chances of developing lung cancer may be increased as much as 30 percent by daily exposure to secondhand smoke.
While lung cancer is frequently in the news, reports of treatment advances are not. See Public education needed. Although innovations in lung cancer treatments have been few in recent years, physicians and researchers are making progress by exploring new combinations of standard treatments.
Lung cancer is a complex disease. Like other cancers, there is no single cause. Still, there is reason for optimism. Lung cancer is among the most preventable of all cancers.
Smoking remains the greatest risk factor, with the risk increasing with the number of cigarettes smoked and the number of years of smoking. Ever since the 1964 landmark "Smoking and Health Report" of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General clearly linking lung cancer and tobacco use, experts have agreed that the most effective way to lower your risk of lung cancer is never to smoke, or if you do, to stop now.
Studies since then have shown that as many as 9 out of 10 cases of lung cancer are caused by smoking. Even if you don't smoke, your chances of developing lung cancer may be increased as much as 30 percent by daily exposure to secondhand smoke.
While lung cancer is frequently in the news, reports of treatment advances are not. See Public education needed. Although innovations in lung cancer treatments have been few in recent years, physicians and researchers are making progress by exploring new combinations of standard treatments.
Brain tumor surgery animation
Confusion with everyday matters, unexplained headache upon waking, difficulty walking and talking — these are some of the experiences of the 114,000 Americans diagnosed last year with a brain tumor. Diagnosis of a brain tumor is frightening, in part because brain tumors remain challenging to treat, particularly in older adults.
But the outlook isn't always as bleak as it might seem. Almost half of some types of brain tumors can be treated successfully, and survival rates are inching upward for people with brain tumors that are more difficult to treat.
Brain Tumor Surgery — This is the mainstay of brain tumor treatment. It involves removing as much of the tumor as possible while trying to minimize damage to healthy tissue.
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