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    Epilepsy: A Case Study

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    epilepsy surgery. Well selected candidates who undergo the surgery achieve seizure freedom 30 to 60% of the time. Of those who do not achieve seizure freedom, many have improved seizure control, making epilepsy surgery a particularly efficacious treatment with relatively minor risks. Despite the potential benefits, epilepsy surgery remains largely underutilized. National projection suggests that there are roughly 1,000,000 individuals in the United States of America with refractory epilepsy.…

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    that affects many people worldwide, and the number of people suffering from dementia is expected to increase in coming years. According to Alzheimer’s Disease International, “over 35 million people worldwide currently live with the condition and this number is expected to double by 2030 and more than triple by 2050 to 115 million” (2013, p.1). Alzheimer’s disease is the most prevalent type of dementia, but other common types include dementia with Lewy bodies and vascular dementia (World Health…

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    Plenty of Athletes in sports today use steroids. Not all of them get caught, but when they do it’s a big price to pay. Most athletes think steroids are worth the risk, but they really aren’t. Although steroids help a minority of professional athletes increase their physical strength and performance, the media reports show professional sports are dominated by the majority who use steroids to get an advantage. Many athletes use steroids, and drug test are always catching people. Most healthy males…

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    understand that a human could survive damage to the skull and frontal lobe without dying, though Phineas faced many problems along the way, such as a fungal infection which he had to have drained through his nose, and suffering from symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer’s disease. Those challenges, while still harsh and difficult to face, weren’t much compared to the frostbite, wounds, and injuries Mawson would have (and did) sustain on his journey to return to the Aurora, the ship taking the…

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    protection of human life should be extended to these cells. However, because of its known probability of saving millions, stem cell research should be continued because embryonic stem cells have shown strong evidence to treating many debilitating diseases since they were discovered,…

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    Marijuana is the most popular recreational drug globally and the third in America (Stuart). It is, however, unique because unlike many others recreational drugs, it also has a range of medical uses. The separation of medical from recreational marijuana is a challenging and confusing task, which has affected its legal status significantly. Consequently, nearly half of the United States has legalized marijuana for medical uses while a few others have legalized it both for medicinal and…

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    hippocampus, which these regions are responsible for memory [32]. When colchicine penetrates to subarachnoid space showed symptoms, including jumpy and irritable behavior, become aggressive and loss in body…

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    (2006); Lambert et al. (2014); Ray, S. & Davidson, S. (2014), the following are the types of dementia: Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Lewy body dementia and Frontotemporal dementia. The most common symptoms include: memory loss, confusion, mood and personality changes, problems with planning and doing tasks in the right order. Dementia is diagnosed when the symptoms cause such problems with the everyday tasks of daily life that the person affected cannot carry on living independently…

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    Affects Sexual Performance

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    What Affects Sexual Performance Sexual performance is a broad term that encompasses many issues and conditions that affects sexual health life. This is a reduction in sexual performance as a result of external problems that interfere with sustained erection ability (impotency). Numerous Psychological and physiological conditions leads to erectile dysfunction. Physical stress increase, either at home or workplace is the main cause of inability to keep up a steady erection during…

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    this adds to his anger and miscommunication with his aunt. His grandmother Estella Mitchell, Jared’s legal guardian, who has never been present for our sessions because of her illness, was diagnosed five years ago with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD and the condition left her all too sickly to…

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