Neurological disorders

Every day, thousands of people are faced with various diseases and conditions that affect them or their loved ones with life changing disabilities. Disabilities that are of a neurological nature usually are those that are the most life altering or threatening disorders and conditions. Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease is one of these conditions. Even though Charcot-Marie Tooth (CMT) is a genetic disease which affects the sensory and motor nerves, the patient can survive and be treated for this…

representation of what’s inside, it is strange enough to draw the reader’s attention, after all it is a pretty weird story to say, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” But it is also one of the most representative of the fact that it is a collection of neurological cases because it actually implies something being wrong with the brain, while other titles such as “The Lost Mariner”, “The Disembodied Lady”, “Witty Ticcy Ray”, “The Dog Beneath the Skin”, and “Rebecca” may convey a completely…

mental illness growing in our country, an alternate method of treatment is worth consideration. The World Health Organization clearly states the reach of mental illness today, “One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point…

personal communication, October 17, 2014), Bulimics blame themselves for the problems associated with their eating disorder; they pinpoint the cause onto themselves as an inability to cope. Bulimia Nervosa affects females and males equally; although the rate at which males seek treatment is much lower than women, there is no reason to believe one gender group is more subjective to the disorder. Bulimia is commonly known as the purging of food, through literal purging; however, Bulimia is much…

Introduction: Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is known to be the most common cause of inherited mental retardation and autism and is the second most common cause of genetically associated mental deficiencies, after Down syndrome. It is a trinucleotide repeat disorder resulting from an expansion in a CGG repeat in the region of the fragile X mental retardation-1 gene (FMR1) on the X chromosome (more than 200 repeats were found in the full mutation, while the normal number of repeats is 6–54 repeats).…

Wilson disease is a recessive inherited disorder. It occurs at birth, but symptoms of the disease do not appear till the ages of 6 through 40 and is caused by a large accumulation of copper in the body. An indication of the disease is a deep copper colored ring around the edge of cornea and the most common medical consequences of Wilson disease is liver disease because the liver is what eliminates the absorbed copper when we consume food and turns it into bile so the copper levels in our body…

you remember a time where you knew what you wanted to say but just couldn’t think of the word? Well imagine knowing what you want to say but physically not being able to say it. Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a neurological childhood speech sound disorder. Children who have this disorder have trouble with the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech because they are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits; the child may have trouble saying syllables, sounds, and words…

components of the neuroscience aspects topic of the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will include the causes of it which is the theories of etiology. I will also review how the factors develops it’s genetic, environmental, familial or lifestyle. I will analyze the pathology, including genetics and biochemical aspects. Then, having to diagnose the research technologies on PSTD. Thesis: Having to analyze neuropsychological disorder, including epidemiology, the risk factors, the natural…

second-order belief question, which led them to perform similarly on the interpretation question. Because the RHD patients were not completely impaired in distinguishing between second-order mental attributes, the researchers concluded that there are some neurological connects within the right hemisphere for the theory of mind. However, some of the connections might also reside outside of the right hemisphere. Previous researchers have theorized that the theory of mind could be located in either…

getting the recommended amount of sleep due to several different types of sleep disorders. The of the most common sleep disorders consist of sleep paralysis, sleep walking, and restless leg syndrome. Thirty percent of people have sleepwalked before. Sleep paralysis is actually not that common but it stands out because of its terrifying symptoms. Ten percent of people suffer from restless leg syndrome. While some sleep disorders do not have cures, there are many ways to deal with them in order to…