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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Prozac"”.
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"""Prozac Saved My Life"" vs. ""Prozac Ruined My Life"": Investigating the Adoption, Constitution and Maintenance of Distinct Interpretations Associated With Depression and Its Medical Treatment"
Beyond the brute pain of depression, individuals enduring this problem also commonly face a more subtle, added burden related to both societal and personal confusion about the basic nature of depression and its appropriate resolution. This dissertation study seeks to better understand diverging …
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"""Prozac Saved My Life"" vs. ""Prozac Ruined My Life"": Investigating the Adoption, Constitution and Maintenance of Distinct Interpretations Associated with Depression and its Medical Treatment."
Beyond the brute pain of depression, individuals enduring this problem also commonly face a more subtle, added burden related to both societal and personal confusion about the basic nature of depression and its appropriate resolution. This dissertation study seeks to better understand diverging …
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Parenting in the age of Prozac: Parental decision -making in social context
<p>Within recent years, prescriptions written for children's emotional and behavioral problems have increased significantly. Although this issue has garnered a great deal of public notice, it has received scant sociological attention. In this study, I investigate parents of children with problems, …
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Combined effects of prozac and hypothalmic mediated response on masseter muscle activity in the cat
… study tested the hypothesis that infusion of Prozac would serve to suppress defensive rage elicited from the medial hypothalamus of the cat. Cats are known to exhibit certain kind of behavior, known as the "defensive rage response" such as unsheathing of the claws, retraction of the ear and …
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A meta-analysis of Prozac and three psychotherapies in the treatment of unipolar major depression
… compare psychotherapeutic methods to the use of Prozac in the treatment of unipolar major depression. Prozac was chosen, specifically, due to its reputation as a new, very effective anti-depressant. This study used a meta-analysis to compare three psychotherapies with medication: 1) cognitive …
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Managing the diffusion of medical technologies
… Cholecystectomy (a surgical procedure) and Prozac (a drug). Literature review supported interviews with parties involved in decision making processes.The widespread adoption of Magnetic Resonance Imaging has been motivated by professional and institutional competition, despite its often …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
… Foster, <em>Lying </em>by Lauren Slater, and <em>Prozac Nation </em>by Elizabeth Wurtzel. Using both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory as they relate to literature, I argue that the selves these four women write in their memoirs are not selves built around the model historically set for …
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Synthesis And Evaluation Of Novel Tropane Compounds As Potential Therapeutics For Drug Abuse
… were equipotent with paroxetine and fluoxetine (Prozac). A series of 8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]oct-2-ene derivatives were synthesized from 3-tropinone based on the structure of triple re-uptake inhibitor, DOV 216, 303. The compounds were designed as potential triple re-uptake inhibitors which could …
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Nico's bubbles : the story of a whale, some crows, and the search for sentience
… identically to humans when fed meat-flavored Prozac. No matter what these behaviors look like, however, emotional experience is subjective and thus still just beyond of scientific reach. As long as subjective experience of nonhuman animals is brushed off by science, the search for evidence of …
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I. Synthesis of Ascarosides for Chemical Biology Studies in Caenorhabditis elegans, II. A Photochemical Approach to Delavayine, and III. Remote Hydroxylation by Radical Translocation and Polar Crossover
… of the powerful antidepressant drug fluoxetine (Prozac®), beginning from a more inexpensive and simple starting material than current industrial methods.
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Microwave-Mediated Hetero Diels-Alder reaction: Synthesis of biologically active compounds
… the scaffold for a wide range of drugs (Prozac®, Duloxetine, Venlafaxine) with large applications in the treatment of severe diseases of nervous central system (NCS). Scheme 1 The reaction provides the formation of three new stereogenic centres (C-2; C-5; C-6). The diastereoselective …