Neurological disorders

medical-based test that uses laboratory methods to examine DNA from extracted blood and other tissue to identify changes in genes (6, 7, 8, and 9). These tests allow health professionals to rule out various genetic conditions, determine whether a disorder will be passed on to future children, and choose proper treatments for the illness (6, 7). But, before genetic testing, the person or family should speak with a doctor or genetic counselor to get information about the pros and cons of testing…

communities in the United States and has been linked to a variety of weakened outcomes among youth and adolescents (Huston, 1994; Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012).These weakened outcomes include the onset of various mental health and physical health disorders, decreased academic achievement, and higher rates of involvement in juvenile crime (Wadsworth, 2008). This paper will look further into how poverty directly and indirectly correlates to the weakened outcomes of each of these specific…

blindness which is an optic nerve disorder divided into total and partial blindness. Total and partial blindness have the same causes and diagnosis; however, they differ in the psychological effect and treatments. While some of the difference between total and partial blindness are salient, the similarities are noticeable. To begin with, blindness is a medical or an inherited problem where people cannot…

physically, socially, and emotionally. In my essay, I will discuss the process in terms of how this disorder arises during childhood, the emotional challenges that youth face when interacting with people and navigating their social worlds. Furthermore, I will be focusing on how the behaviour is maintained using a behaviourist and cognitive approach including what can be done to aid this mental disorder. Schizophrenia is an incapacitating and unforgiving disease characterized by severe psychotic…

unimportant in the Freudian paradigm of psychiatry. For Freud, taxonomic labels simply failed to hold any weight, or uniformity because “one and the same set of symptoms or patient complaints was thought, in theory to stem from just about any form of disorder” (Graham, 5). The same exact symptoms found in one person could mean that they had phobias in one person, and then obsession issues in the second person. (Graham, 5). Freud didn’t really care about the classifications of different mental…

In recent years MTHFR has been popularised in social media and blogs with various levels of information and potential misinformation. A search on google.com.au using the term “MTHFR” provided 1,330,000 results in 0.40 seconds.[1] With all of this different information being available 24 hours per day, all year round, it can be confusing for practitioners and patients to sift through to determine what is scientific, clinical or “hearsay”. 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR)…

Excessive daytime sleepiness, difficulty inducing or sustaining sleep and irregular events arising during sleep are symptoms related to sleep disorders. It is estimated that anywhere from 50 to 70 million Americans chronically contain some form of sleep disorder that is affecting their day-to-day living (Altevoga et al., 2006). According to The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey (2015), among 74,571 adult in 12 states, 37.9% reported accidentally falling asleep during the…

I chose narcolepsy for my topic for this final. Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that affects the brain’s ability to control sleep-wake cycles. The reason I chose narcolepsy is because one out of every 2,000 people are affected by it. Narcolepsy can greatly affect daily activities. People can unwillingly fall asleep even if they are in the middle of an activity like driving, eating, or talking. Other symptoms will include sudden muscle weakness while the person is awake that can…

from more than one convulsion which is not related to a clear cause such as fever, a head injury or drug use. A convulsion is caused by a sudden brief excess surge of electrical activity in the brain. Convulsion is one of the most common neurological disorders which affects almost 1% of the world’s population. 25% to 30% of convulsion patients can not be treated by medication or surgery, they suffer from so-called refractory convulsions [30, 56]. Convulsions mainly occur as paroxysmal events,…

What is narcolepsy? Narcolepsy is a neurological disorder that effects your control to sleep, people with the disorder experience excessive daytime sleepiness. People have uncontrolled episodes of falling asleep during the day. Although this disorder usually begins between the ages of 15-25 it can become deceptive at any age. The sleep “attacks” can occur during any type of activity, at any time. In a typical sleep cycle, you enter many different stages of sleep throughout the night. You enter…