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    Against them are Lilah Kemp and Amy Wylie, who both suffer from neurological disorders Lilah suffers from schizophrenic. Emma Berry seems to be driven toward society’s pressure like Mrs. Ross as they are both not on the side of good or evil but pulled toward the madness and uncertainty. There is division by gender seen in Headhunter…

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    break it down, the word Blepharo which means ‘Eye Lid” and the word Spasm which means “uncontrolled muscle contraction. So with that being said it is an abnormal blinking or eyelid ticking or twitching resulting from any cause. (BEB) is a rare neurological disorder of muscles around the eyes. They have a lot of spasms that come and go called intermittent. Early stage symptoms of this disease can start with twitching of the eyes, blinking and eye irritation. The causes of the disease benign…

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    Kevin has been supporting child pornography by buying videos and downloading it to his computer. Kevin would download these videos a dozen times, then delete them a dozen times. Kevin stated that he lacked neurological control when he would buy these child pornography videos, but knew what he was doing was wrong. In court, Kevin would plead guilty but during his sentencing hearing he asked the judge to be lenient because the person who was downloading and supporting…

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    cannot be positive it was not another disorder so this books credibility is questionable. The second time a case of turrets was reported is one of the more well-known stories. The case of Marquise de Dampierre, a French noble woman in 1852 who presented with both vocal and body tics . Marquise is thought to be the first recorded case after Dr. Jean Gaspard reported her symptoms.…

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    Blood samples were taken from healthy subjects without psychiatric, neurological or somatic disordersand history of head injuries, allergy and lipid or carbohydrate metabolism disorders, untreated with drugs. Healthy subjects did not use addictive substances and, , lived in similar socio-economic conditions. Subjects with significant medical illness or first degree family history…

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    Phenylketonuria A disease is an infection that happens because of outside bacteria or viruses. Meanwhile, a inherited genetic disorder is found in DNA and occurs when inherited by one’s parent. Numerous are caused by transformation in the quality of the cell. Having Phenylketonuria, your body won’t be able to process Phenylalanine, a protein that is in most of the foods. Phenylketonuria is usually found in people from Native American and Northern European ancestry and less common in people from…

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    Psychiatric inpatients suffer from a mental disorder that is known as psychological conditions that are as a result of disorganization of mind, personality, and emotions that affect the normal social functioning of an individual. There are several methods that were used in history to treat an inpatient psychologically that affected an individual. Some of these problems were crude and oppressive, but they were desirable by that time (Jennings, 1994). Moral treatment was administered in the 18th…

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    sleep and sleep disorders. Almost 75% of American adults feel that they have some type of sleeping problem. The main or most common types of sleep disorders that affect people are Insomnia- the chronic difficulty in falling asleep, staying asleep, or experiencing a restful sleep and Narcolepsy which is defined as extreme daytime sleepiness and sudden, uncontrollable sleep attacks that last from less than a minute to an hour. Other common sleeping disorders are REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (RBD)…

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    1.How do you define schizophrenia? Schizophrenia can be defined as a neurological illness that involves a series of intense psychotic outbreaks, usually occurring during the period of adolescence. It does not characterize an individual with a split personality, but rather focuses on frustration between reality and make belief. There are a number of negative symptoms that are associated with this disease that John mentioned in lecture. The signs of schizophrenia development included, depression,…

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    change in older adults sleep pattern is called advanced sleep phase syndrome (Vitiello, 2009). They are many other factors that affect older adults from restful sleep like snoring, to sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome (RLS), periodic limb movement disorder, and gastro esophageal reflux…

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