Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Psychosis
An overview of psychosis including types of delusions: delusions of reference, grandiose delusions, paranoid delusions, delusions of control, and erotomaniac. Also discussed are hallucinations, disorganized behavior, disorganized...
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Khan Academy: What Are Psychotic Disorders?
An overview of psychotic disorders including chemical imbalance and symptoms. A Quick Guide to Diagnostic Criteria of Schizophrenia and A Quick Guide to Diagnostic Criteria of Schizoaffective Disorder are part of this article.
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Khan Academy: Delusional Disorder
An explanation of delusional disorder including symptoms, causes, treatment, and prognosis.
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Khan Academy: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
An explanation of Schizotypal personality disorder (STPD) including diagnosis, cause, and treatment.
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Khan Academy: Schizoaffective Disorder
An explanation of Schizoaffective disorder including the criteria needed to make the diagnosis, causes, and treatment.
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Khan Academy: Schizophrenia Treatment
An explanation of the treatment of schizophrenia as related to the stages of the disorder.
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Khan Academy: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
An explanation of post traumatic stress disorder including causes, symptoms, and treatment.
BSCS Science Learning
Bscs: Bscs Helps Students, Parents, and Teachers Connect With Nature
BSCS Science Learning has developed this resource to help students, parents, and teachers get away from technology and formal learning and spend some time connecting with nature. Included are links to resources about the benefits of...
A&E Television
History.com: How Aids Activists Used "Die Ins" to Demand Attention to the Growing Epidemic
As the AIDS crisis took hold in the 1980s, killing thousands of Americans and ravaging gay communities, the deadly epidemic went unaddressed by U.S. public health agencies -- and unacknowledged by President Ronald Reagan -- for years. In...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is Malaria?
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by a parasite called Plasmodium that invades red blood cells and liver cells. The parasites are transferred to humans by the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito. The article discusses how...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Basics of Malaria
An overview of malaria and the types of Plasmodium that is carried by the Anopheles mosquito infecting red blood cells and liver cells in the human body. Symptoms of malaria are also discussed.
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Khan Academy: Diagnosing Malaria
The three-step process of diagnosing malaria is explained.
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Khan Academy: Treatment of Malaria
After malaria has been confirmed by lab or biochemical diagnosis, treatment must begin immediately. But first the type of Plasmodium causing the infection, whether the patient has severe or non-severe infection, and if the parasite is...
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Khan Academy: Preventing Malaria
An overview of how to prevent getting malaria including insecticides, repellents, eliminating mosquito breeding areas, malaria prophylactic drugs.
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Khan Academy: Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction
This article explains the concepts of drug use and dependence.
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Khan Academy: Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction
Substance use disorders are a class of psychological disorder in which a person continues to use a substance, despite having significant health, social, and other negative consequences as a result of their substance use.
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Khan Academy: Psychoactive Drugs: Depressants and Opiates
An explanation of the effects the psychoactive drugs, depressants and opiates, have on the body.
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Khan Academy: A Potential Cure for Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever
Read a passage about a potential cure for Ebola hemorrhagic fever and answer the follow-up questions to practice for the MCAT.
Other
Science Clarified: Antibody and Antigen
Antibodies, also called immunoglobulins, are proteins manufactured by the body that help fight against foreign substances called antigens. When antigens enters the body, it stimulates the immune system to produce antibodies. (The immune...
Other
Understanding Race: Age Related Macular Degeneration
This interesting site ties an immune system response to infection early in life to age-related macular degeneration presenting itself later in life.
Other
Miniclip: Sneeze
Play this educational interactive online game to learn how sneezing infects other humans with a virus. Children and the elderly are the easiest to infect because of their immune systems. Includes facts about the common cold.
Other
Hon: T Killer Cell
Health on the Net offers this very brief explanation of what these cells do in the immune system.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Human Body Systems Vote
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart identifies major body systems and their functions and illustrates body systems that provide support and movement, transport, air/gas exchange, excretion, immunity, reproduction and...