Sentences with phrase «symptoms of being human»

The future: Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin is high on my to - read list for 2016.

Not exact matches

The Law is a means of coping with the affects / symptoms of our broken relationship with God [broken on the human, not the Divine side] and not the cure of mankind's individual and social ills.

Anger is a human emotion that is a symptom of fear.

@truth2power You said «Anger is a human emotion that is a symptom of fear.

Undemocratic conditions in any sphere of human affairs are symptoms of irreligion or idolatry.

Human suffering is always a symptom of a problem, a difficulty, a tragedy, a commitment, or a hope.

So for example, in my case and that of other persons whose minds dissociate when we engage in intense / deep spiritual practices like intense / deep prayer, meditation, fasting etc and we hear voices, hallucinate, see visions, experience thought insertions, automatic channelling just like a spirit medium as well as other psychic phenomena (clairvoyance etc), and the mind dissociation makes some persons mentally and emotionally unstable; our minds enter an altered state of consciousness just like those of the Buddhist monks but in our case the altered state of our brains results in psychotic and psychic symptoms being induced (interestingly, some persons who are ignorant of how the human brain functions chalk up these experiences to demonic attack)......... are these psychotic, psychic experiences which persons like myself experience a gift from God as well?

I find this helpful to think of it as a process rather than some dysfunction or symptom an illness perhaps but what a normal healthy human being encounters.

In his recent best seller, Alvin Toffler argued that many among us are already suffering from «future shock,» an illness with both physical and emotional symptoms resulting from exposure to change beyond the adaptive capacities of the human system.

Two of them pointed to the social dimension of the sickness when they wrote: «The Church's job, I think, is to shed the searchlight of the Gospel on the causes of human misery of which alcoholism is a symptom»; and «We can prevent it by helping people learn how to live in a complex world.»

These signs or signs and symptoms are a reaction of the entire body on the notion that the human body is being attacked by these mold spores that generate the allergy.

Strict human carnivores have to eat it raw or lightly cooked to get enough to prevent scurvy (not to mention whatever other issues come from being deficient)-- and even then many of them have had to admit defeat and start supplementing with Vitamin C because their teeth are loosening, amid other scurvy symptoms.

Mouth sores are one of the most common symptoms of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

As a fellow mother, I feel it is my duty to give you a heads up on some of the wonky pregnancy symptoms your body may experience in the process of creating a tiny human:

«It's the nature of being a human — when we're faced with nonspecific symptoms like fussiness and drooling and changes in sleep, we want to peg it on something,» Jones says.

There have been dramatic results from human trials in treating Crohn's disease, with 95 % of participants experiencing significant improvement in symptoms.

Gene therapy delivered to a specific part of the brain reverses symptoms of depression in a mouse model of the disease — potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to treating severe cases of human depression in which drugs are ineffective.

«Before our work in rhesus monkeys, it has not been possible to detect or observe some of these symptoms in other HD animal models, especially emotional dysregulation,» says senior author Chan, associate professor of human genetics at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory University School of Medicine.

«Almost every human being is infected with one or more of these viruses, but most people never develop symptoms, much less breast cancer,» Friedenson said.

A few drugs have shown promise in cell culture or animal models, but clinical trials in humans are time consuming because of the slow onset and progression of the disorder's clinical symptoms.

There are innumerable different viruses, but the human adenovirus 5, which normally causes the symptoms of a typical cold, has substantial advantages: Its genome can be replaced completely by an artificial one which contains only «useful» genes.

Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.

The position paper, primarily penned by Pali - Schöll and Erika Jensen - Jarolim from the interdisciplinary Messerli Research Institute of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna and of the Medical University of Vienna, shows that the symptoms of food intolerance are similar in both animals and humans.

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or acronym AIDS or Aids), is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

The fact that violence can be a symptom of brain disease shows not that free will is an illusion, but that free will can be injured just like other human abilities.

«Students often report feeling overwhelmed and experiencing high levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms,» says Barker, who is also a member of the Centre for Research in Human Development.

In a recent study of human couples, social psychologist Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah observed minor withdrawal - like symptoms, such as irritability and sleep disturbances, along with an increase in cortisol in subjects after they were separated four to seven days.

The best of them, Christine Borland's A Treasure of Human Inheritance, is a real - life family tree rendered in translucent agate slices, with each color representing the onset of a symptom of Huntington's disease.

Like the human genome, the zebrafish genome has two copies of each gene, and scientists can remove the function of multiple genes to produce phenotypes that are reminiscent of human symptoms.

While such realistic simulations might be valuable for ambulance - training videos, their application across the full spectrum of human storytelling may be a symptom of our society's continuing devaluation of anything that can't be understood on a literal level.

This and other controversies aside, recent results raise the possibility that PTSD is a less distinctive affliction than originally thought and that its symptoms may arise in response to a plethora of intense stressors that are part and parcel of the human condition.

For example, although early clinical trials of Listeria - based vaccines have shown that the neutralized bacterium produces only mild flulike symptoms in human patients with cervical cancer, the various methods of genetically disarming the bacteria should be explored to find the safest approach for people gravely ill with pancreatic cancer, because these patients are likely to already have weak immune systems.

In rats, high levels of sFlt1 led to symptoms reminiscent of preeclampsia in humans, regardless of whether or not the animals were pregnant.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive human cancers — symptoms do not occur until the cancer is well advanced.

«In this study, we were able to observe the existence of microscopic disease and low numbers of bacteria, which would be difficult to «see» in humans but could possibly be the cause of the variable and nonspecific symptoms that are characteristic of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.

They searched through 60 years of scientific and newspaper reports to determine two things: first, whether the pathogens cause visible disease symptoms or death in wildlife, and second, whether human outbreaks were preceded or accompanied by evidence of the disease in animals.

Using a model of Parkinson's disease in which the toxin MPTP, made famous in book «The Case of the Frozen Addicts,» induces Parkinson's - like symptoms in humans and mice, Dr. Smeyne showed that mice infected with H1N1, even long after the initial infection, had more severe Parkinson's symptoms than those who had not been infected with the flu.

In humans, Galatzer - Levy found that different versions of the fkbp5 gene were able to predict specific differences in extinction learning related to PTSD symptoms such as reliving or re-experiencing the traumatic event; avoiding reminders of the event; and, in particular, hyperarousal, or the inability to sleep or concentrate.

What's more, the mice developed symptoms typical of rheumatoid arthritis in humans: Their joints became inflamed and were filled with immune system chemical messengers, such as TNF - α, which make the immune system turn on the body.

«If scientists want to test drugs for dementia, Alzheimer's or autism, ideal models would react similarly to humans in regards to the reduction of symptoms, outbreak of side effects, such as enduring the same lesions as humans do, or exhibiting similar behavioral characteristics,» said Latham, who's with the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and an MSU AgBioResearch scientist.

The mice show many of the symptoms that human patients do, and so they were an especially good candidate to test iPS cells» abilities, says stem cell researcher Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both in Cambridge, who collaborated with Townes on the project.

The study is an attempt to learn if humans can create memories unwittingly, memories so strong they may cause the debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

The MS mice treated with human stem cells experience a reversal of symptoms.

If shown to be effective in humans, the use of EA to alleviate pain symptoms associated with alcohol withdrawal could potentially lessen the chances of a relapse to drinking in these individuals.

Now a change in its symptoms in Queensland horses is raising fears that new strains may have emerged — and even that a strain capable of spreading from human - to - human could appear.

«The bottom line is that peer rejection and ADHD symptoms are related, but they may also affect each other over time,» adds Jay Belsky, Robert M. and Natalie Reid Dorn Professor of Human Development at the University of California, Davis, a coauthor of the study.

Although amelioration of disease symptoms by interallelic complementation would create an ascertainment bias in the clinic, the lack of evidence concerning interallelic complementation or other biallelic effects in human disease is likely caused by the difficulty in distinguishing such effects from environment and genetic background.

Histopathology in Tg197 mice is characterized by infiltration of inflammatory cells, synovial hyperplasia, articular cartilage destruction and bone erosion symptoms, closely resembling those of human rheumatoid arthritis.

The condition is more common than muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but the development of new therapeutic concepts is hindered by the fact that unlike muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, where a single mutated gene causing the disease is known, the entire human chromosome 21 (containing around 300 genes) still has to be dissected into individual gene - dose contributions to the DS symptoms.

The idea that only APP accumulates intraneuronally is thought - provoking and additionally, whether the intracellular Aβ pathology causes some of the symptoms in human AD remains unknown.