Locked-in syndrome

Although, patients who have locked-in syndrome often have preserved cognitive function, and are therefore able to recall memories and how they lived their life before. There are three different categories of locked-in syndrome: classic, incomplete, and total. Classic locked-in syndrome is where a patient is conscious and has quadriplegia, anarthria, and vertical eye movement, along with the ability to blink. Incomplete locked-in syndrome is the same as classic, except patients have additional, but limited, voluntary movement besides vertical eye movement and blinking. In total locked-in syndrome, however, a patient is conscious with preserved cognitive function, but completely immobile and unable to communicate, lacking vertical eye movement (Smith & Delargy, 2005). Locked-in syndrome affects all ages, both men and women, and has a 89% 10-year survival rate (Smith & Delargy, 2005). Locked-in syndrome can be caused by many different reasons, but most always involves an occlusion to the basilar artery and damage to the…

There are many individuals that suffer from a traumatic brain injury but some lead to different syndromes depending where and how hard the individual was hit in the head.The locked in syndrome is a neurological disorder in where an individual is paralyzed and has no control of their body except there eye movement. Individuals who suffer from this syndrome are fully awake but have no ability to move their body or speak. The locked-in Syndrome can affect anyone at any age but, it is most often…

On the night of Friday, December 8th, 1995, Jean Dominique, a vibrant, adventurous editor for the French Elle magazine suffered from a massive stroke that caused austere damage to his brainstem. Few weeks later, he woke up to find himself paralyzed from the neck down, a neurological disorder called “Locked-In Syndrome”. Although paralyzed, he had his brain normally functioning and in a preserve sense he actually got lucky enough to be able to blink his left eye; unlikely with most victims. This…

Research Any injury or damage to your brain can result in devastating motor or cognitive lost. The extent of this lost typically depends on the amount of damage caused and the point of injury. After receiving a brain injury, the most severe form of motor disability someone can have is Locked-in syndrome (LIS) (Pistoia et al., 2016). “It is the consequence of ventral brainstem damage as a result of vascular or traumatic lesions disconnecting corticospinal and corticobulbar tracts bilaterally”…

Six years imprisoned in her own body, unable to communicate with anyone, and with no one knowing she was alert. Julia Tavalaro was 27 when she suffered multiple strokes and fell victim to the rare Locked-In Syndrome. None of her family noticed that Tavalaro was awake or trying to communicate with them, it was a therapists who noticed that Tavalaro seemed to follow her with her eyes. A disease often misdiagnosed by doctors as a vegetative state, or pseudo-coma. She was trapped without anyone…

Reflect, Renew, Reborn Locked-in syndrome is not a disorder you want to have. The syndrome most commonly occurs after a stroke that destroys the brain stem, and leaves the victim in a state of paralysis, or as Jean-Dominique Bauby states that he was: “reduced to the existence of a jellyfish.”(25) This statement really shows the intensity of the disorder. No muscles are able to voluntarily move except for the eyes which you blink to communicate. Locked-in syndrome is so rare that according to…

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This is a test to screen a pregnancy to determine whether a baby has an increased chance of having specific chromosome disorders. The test examines the baby's DNA in the mother's blood. Williams Syndrome Williams syndrome is a rare disorder that can lead to problems with development. It is passed down in the offsprings of families. One of the 25 missing genes is the one that produces elastin, a protein that allows blood vessels and other tissues in the body to stretch. It is likely that…

Mohammad Ekrama Biology 22 Professor Clark 1october 2016 Christianson Syndrome Abstract: Christianson Syndrome is a super rare disease, it is a recessive X-linked disorder ,that usually affects the human body, specifically the nervous system. There are a lot of symptoms for this disorder like ataxia, seizures, epilepsy, severe mental retardation and microcephaly. Mutations on the SLC9A6 gene cause Christianson Syndrome, this gene is located on the X chromosome. This disorder is usually…

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