Culture-bound syndrome

Nasal resonance and airflow can also be impacted by cleft lip and/or palate. The abnormal nasal resonance and airflow cause hypernasal and hyponasal speech. Hypernasal speech occurs when there is too much airflow coming through the nasal cavity making sounds more breathy. Hyponasal speech occurs when too little airflow comes through the nasal cavity making the sounds sound as if the child has a plugged nose (Nagarajan, Savitha, & Subramaniyan, 2009). Velopharyngeal dysfunction is the…

I have researched Scoliosis for this Skeletal System Case Study. Where a healthy spine appears straight from behind, a spine that has developed Scoliosis will curve to the side. In this study I explored the causes, types, treatments and the use of massage therapy to help ease the affects Scoliosis has on the body. Scoliosis occurs when the spine develops an abnormal lateral curve during growth. Doctors use an S or C to describe the curve of the spine. Scoliosis can be Congenital, which means…

Tourette’s Syndrome Tourette’s syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder defined by sudden, repetitive, involuntary movements or vocalizations called tics. The worst symptoms are first noticed in childhood before the age of 18 years with improvement into late teens and adulthood. Males are affected three to four times more often than females. Approximately 200,000 individuals have a severe form of TS. Tic disorders can occur in all ethnic and cultural groups and tend to be genetic. Evidence…

B R I E F H I S T O R Y O F A U T I S M The term autism was first used by a psychiatrist, Dr. Eugen Bleuler, in 1908 to describe patients with schizophrenia who withdrew themselves from reality. Originated from the Greek word, “autós” and autism was used by Bleuler to define these individuals with abnormal self admiration and severe withdrawal from others. Decades later, Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner pioneered into the research of autism. In 1943, child psychiatrist Leo Kanner…

Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) is characterised by impairments in communication and socialisation, alongside repetitive and stereotyped behaviours (Association Psychiatric Association, 2013). Differences in risk of ASC are associated with socioeconomic disparities, whereby ASC tends to be overrepresented in high socioeconomic status (SES) families. Early clinical (Cox et al., 1975; Finnegan et al., 1979; Hoshino et al., 1982; McCarthy et al., 1979) and population-based studies (Bhasin &…

Autism and autism spectrum disease (ASD) are complex childhood developmental disorders characterized by impaired social interaction, which is a very devastating disease that affects the entire family. There are huge public and political attention turned to the topic that the MMR vaccine has possible association with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), ASD and autism. Previously, there was suggestion that if measles, mumps and rubella vaccines given separately, it could be beneficial and will…

What is autism? Autism is brain development disorder, when a child’s enhancement of cognitive ability ceases to progress into adulthood. Hans Asperger, who is one of the most known psychologists, concluded and mentioned that children who are struggling with autism have no problem in conversation, but they act as babies. His studies, however, did not clearly explain about autism. In 1970, Erica Foundation clearly explained about autism, therefore people could exactly know what autism is. People…

Most children develop speech and language without effort, although there is considerable variation in the rate at which children acquire language with approximately 7% of children demonstrating impairments in these skills. Understanding the influences on children’s language development in the general population may indicate potential avenues for the causes of these impairments which may lead to the development of new intervention methods. Those influences could be either internal to the child or…

Cushing syndrome refers to the complex clinical manifestations resulting from chronic exposure to excess cortisol. Cushing disease is overproduction of pituitary ACTH by a pituitary adenoma (McCance, Huether, Brashers, & Rote, 2014, p. 754-755). Cushing’s disease is defined by Adrenocorticotropin hormone (ACTH) hypersecretion, induced by a corticotrophic adenoma, leading to cortisol and androgen hypersecretion. Cushing’s disease may lead to death if untreated; it is responsible for increased…

information becomes altered and abnormalities occur. An example of a human aneuploidy is Cat Eye Syndrome aka Schmid –Fraccaro Syndrome. Cat eye syndrome is a genetic disorder caused duplicated chromosome material of Chromosome 22. The top half and a small section of the bottom half are present three or four times in the cells of the body rather than two. Symptoms associated with this syndrome are absence of tissue from the iris from one or both eyes, anal atresia, congenital heart defects,…