Neurological Abnormalities Essay

The “4 D’s” in Abnormal Psychology are dysfunctional, distress, deviance, and danger. Dysfunctional is the behavior and feelings that may be deemed dysfunctional when they interfere with the person’s ability to hold a job, be able to form relationships, and function in daily life. Distress refers to the unsettling or unpleasant behavior that an individual displays. Deviant behavior is the violation of cultural norms. Finally, danger refers to an individual displaying harm to themselves or others. Culture Relativity is the view that what may be considered moral in society may be considered unmoral in another. Culture can affect determining whether or not a behavior is abnormal. In this essay we will take a look at different cultures and what behavior is considered abnormal in each. Deviant behavior is behavior that violates a cultures norm. Schizophrenia is a disabling brain disorder which has affected many people throughout the years. Many individuals which have this mental illness often times hear voices that others do not hear. They believe that others are reading their mind, in control of their thoughts, or wanting to cause them harm. In America, those individuals with schizophrenia are looked at as deviant. Hearing voices in your head is not the norm and may cause others around you to begin to feel uncomfortable. In Ghana and India hearing voices that others may not hear is not considered deviant. In many ways these individuals feel special as it is believed they…

Group I, Category 44 Insufficient Medical Documentation to Determine Impairment Severity ISSUE There is insufficient evidence regarding the claimant’s physical condition to complete the Sequential Evaluation of Disability. CASE DISCUSSION & POLICY ANALYSIS (INCLUDING SPECIFIC REFERENCES) This 59- year old claimant is filing a concurrent claim alleging disability due to arthritis in the knees, a herniated disc, scoliosis, and arthritis in the back, tendonitis in left foot, urinary…

Ever go to the doctor or know someone who goes to the doctor feeling ill and comes back home with a prescription for broad spectrum antibiotic or painkiller. Then about a week later they are back at the doctors. What is going to be different this time? Actually running laboratory test being conducted by technologist/ scientist. This was the story of my diabetic father. Having frequent urination he decided to go to the doctors and mentioned this new condition. Being told it was just his increased…

Ashley will be pleased to know she can still undoubtedly enjoy the beloved sport of golf with her friends and family, despite having cerebral palsy. Most people use “cerebral palsy” as a blanket term to describe a loss or impairment of motor function, however, it is crucial to understand cerebral palsy as brain damage resulting from brain injury or abnormal brain development that occurs during the crucial stages of infancy or early childhood development (Ultimate). The term “cerebral palsy”…

Disease is something that everyone has heard about, that some fear, and even fewer endure. There are many kinds of diseases that range from easily curable to deadly and without remedy. Disease affects more than a single person in most cases. It can potentially cause more emotional harm to family and friends than to the victim themselves. This is the reason diseases are so feared and heard about. Disease spreads panic and despair, yet with a recovery they spread joy and hope. Two diseases that…

What is Cerebral Palsy • Cerebral Palsy is the impairment or lost of motor function of the body ()("Definition of Cerebral Palsy - What is CP? | CerebralPalsy.org"). The cause of cerebral palsy is brain damage. The brain damage is a result of irregular brain development of the brain before , during and after birth ("Definition of Cerebral Palsy - What is CP? | CerebralPalsy.org")). Cerebral Palsy can affect one's gross or fine motor skills and oral motor functioning("Definition of Cerebral…

on treatment options researchers have been mainly focused on stem cell research to determine whether impaired brain cells can be fixed or exchanged. One of the experiments conducted by neurologist Evan Snyder from Harvard Medical School, is that he injected mice with stem cell implants and the results proved that missing cells can be replaced. This study gives hope to people who suffer from CP because it is an alternative form of treatment that may lessen the effects that the disability had on a…

Cerebral Palsy, commonly referred to as CP, is a neurological condition that affects each person who has it differently. By definition, Cerebral Palsy is when there is affect to one’s motor function that is caused by brain damage resulting from either abnormal brain growth or injury before birth, during, or right after birth ("Definition of Cerebral Palsy", n.d.). This impairment of motor function can either be very mild to very severe. For example, one person with cerebral palsy may just have…

According to Goldstein in 1908, Alien hand syndrome (AHS) was labelled as a disorder related to the inability to do certain actions, also known as apraxia. “It was named main etrangere (foreign hand) or alien hand by Brion and Jedynak in 1972” (Pooyania, Mohr, and Gray, 2011). AHS is an extraordinary neurological disorder where an individual display unusual, involuntary movements that happen with one hand (sometimes two hands in rare cases), that are not controlled by the individual. It is as…

to choose a topic that surrounded our main lecture of chapter nine, neonatology disease and disorders. My disease that I have chosen is Cleft Palate or Palate. A Cleft Palate is when there is a split or an opening in the roof of the mouth. It can involve the hard palate which is the bony front portion of the roof of the mouth, or the soft palate which is the soft back portion of the roof of the mouth. There is also a Cleft Lip which is where there is a physical split or separation of the two…