Cerebral hemorrhage

endurance for the whale in order for them to survive, “Causes of death determined at necropsy included mediastinal abscesses, pyometra, pneumonia, influenza, salmonellosis, nephritis, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, fungus infection, ruptured aorta, cerebral hemorrhage and a perforated postpyloric ulcer. Captive females appear to have a higher rate of mortality than males. Growth rates for whales that died were greater than for those that survived.” (Ridgway) These diseases sound very serious and in…

March of Dimes is an organization that fights to prevent birth defects and premature births among babies all over the world. This organization was originally founded and named the National Foundation of Infantile Paralysis by Franklin D Roosevelt (“About Us”). Roosevelt founded this organization when he had a personal encounter with polio. The foundation soon became known as the March of Dimes when they turned their focus to birth defects and prematurity in children. March of Dimes has been…

On December eighteenth 1879 in Gori, Georgia, a small peasant village in Russia, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili (more commonly known as Joseph Stalin) was born into a large family. Stalin had two brothers, Georgy Jughashvili, born one year before Stalin, and Mikhail Jughashvili, born three years before Stalin. However, none of Stalin's siblings survived through infancy. Stalin's father, Besarion Jughashvili, was a cobbler though later became an alcoholic and later becoming a vagrant.…

NEUROSARCODOSIS PRESENTING AS RAPIDLY PROGRESSIVE DEMENTIA: A CASE REPORT ABSTRACT: We report a case of neurosarcoidosis in a patient presenting with rapidly progressive dementia and intermittent delirium. Sarcoidosis with neurologic involvement is rare, and typically does not manifest with psychiatric or cognitive symptomatology. The most common presentation of neurosarcoidosis is facial neuropathy, followed by meningoencephalitis. This patient exhibited accelerated mental…

The two research articles by Olson, D.M & McNett el at. (2013) and Olson & Lewis el at. (2013), both having Olson as the primary author present research regarding ICP. Moreover, both of the articles used similar samples for their research. The population used for both of the studies were 28 nurse-patients dyads, from 16 hospitals. The patients were age 18 and older who had been diagnosed with intracranial pressure. The samples included white males with a mean age of 47 years old. Once the…

substitutions for projections from the primary motor cortex. Finally, strategies to promote adaptive responses can influence recovery of motor function after a stroke. These strategies include changing the environmental and behavioral contexts to influence cerebral reorganization and promote recovery of function (Ward & Cohen,…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was one of the many staunch champions of feminism who expressed her thoughts on the subject through her widely appraised literary works. Gilman not only represented the struggles that women of her time were facing through these works, but her real life experiences also exemplify the obstacles that women had to face in order to get to the extent of equality that exists today. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut to Mary Westcott and…

Kate Chopin was an influential, controversial, and brilliant writer that in this modern day has relatively been forgotten. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1851 to French-Creole descendant Eliza Faris and Irish immigrant Thomas O’Flaherty. It was during her early childhood that she gained her inspiration for writing from her great-grandmother Victoria Verdon Charleville. Chopin also experienced a lot of death during her childhood, her great-grandmother and half brother dying when she was…

Performance-enhancing substances Performance-enhancing substances is one of the most important concerns for athletes till this day. These substances are outlawed in every league, but athletes still find a way to cheat and continue to find ways to get an edge over their competitors. These substances are used to improve performances of athletes and gives them an advantage. When taking these drugs it affects your body in many ways as growth of muscles but doesn’t change the fact that is is still…

“address not just linear forces acting upon football players’ heads but also angular and rotational acceleration” while traditional helmets “were originally created to address skull fractures and to prevent subsequent subdural and epidural brain hemorrhages.” The Zero1 helmet has a soft outer shell that is meant to slightly change shape as it absorbs a hit with a rigid layer underneath the soft shell. Despite its state of the art design and benefits, the helmet costs more than fifteen hundred…