Syndromes

What exactly is Tourette Syndrome? It's a disorder that causes random spastic and normally strange movements, sounds, words, or even a combination of the three. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, it's "Tourette Syndrome is a rare inherited neurological disorder characterized by recurrent motor and phonic tics (involuntary muscle spasms and vocalizations). It is three times more prevalent in males than in females. Although the cause of Tourette syndrome is unknown, evidence suggests that there…

with Autism on the severe end of the spectrum, as well as Fragile X Syndrome, both lifelong developmental disabilities. According to Autism Speaks, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is “a group of complex disorders of brain development. These disorders are characterized, in varying degrees, by difficulties in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and repetitive behaviors.” (What Is Autism?, 2016) Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is a genetic condition that causes intellectual disability,…

The long-term effect of drinking can cause Korsakoff syndrome, which is the deficiency of thiamine (Oudman, E. 2014). The Korsakoff s syndrome is also known for its effect on the brain’s memory, individuals with this syndrome do have anterograde amnesia, and they cannot store new information to memory. The deficiency in the body because of the chronic misuse of alcohol has done damage…

Introduction: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is one of the most well-known nerve entrapment syndromes. This occurs when the medial nerve is pressed at the wrist. As a result, this causes a tingling sensation and weakness in the wrist and hand. Patients who have CTS are probably suffering from Occupational Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. This is due to a combination of factors, increased pressure on the median nerve and tendons rather than the actual nerve itself. CTS affects women twice as much as men and…

Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome The goal of this paper is to summarize and synthesize five research articles that are relevant to my PICOT question. My PICOT question is: In patients that are withdrawing from alcohol, what is the effect of benzodiazepines, compared to other drugs in the treatment for Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS)? The synthesis will include inconsistencies and contradictions in the literature that was reviewed. Lastly, I will provide preliminary conclusions on…

Each year, about 6,000 babies are born with Down Syndrome, according to the CDC. Down Syndrome is a congenital disorder that causes intellectual impairment and physical abnormalities such as hypotonia, ligamentous laxity, and decreased strength which prevent children with Down Syndrome from developing motor skills at the same level as children without the disorder. The Children’s TherAplay Foundation provides therapy for children with disorders such as this. An employee from this foundation…

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is a condition typically characterized with wide spread pain (Arranz et al., 2010). Along with the pain several other symptoms are also very common such as fatigue, sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, cognitive difficulties, headache, low back pain, and illnesses like irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and osteoarthritis. It has been estimated that between 2% and 8% of the world population has FM…

Brad Cohen takes you on his lifelong journey of how it was for him as a child growing up. Brad was a child who was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome (TS) in the 1980’s. Growing up he was often mocked, made fun of, shunned, and often times blamed for wanting to act out and misbehaving. In the 1980’s TS was unheard of outside of anyone not involved in the medical field. Brad’s lifelong dream was to be a teacher, he wanted to be the teacher that he never had, which was one that understood his…

This study examined the effects of two definitions of chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) on two personality traits, Neuroticism and Extraversion. Neuroticism also known as emotional instability. The hypotheses of the study were to associate emotional instability and extraversion traits with chronic fatigue and CFS in a genetically informative sample. Participants were monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs with at least one twin member was chronically fatigue for at least six…

Tourette syndrome. He is a family friend named Chris, who is now a freshman in college at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder of involuntary movements. The movements are called tics, where parts of the body like the face, arms, or limbs move rapidly. There are two kinds of tics associated with Tourette syndrome. Tics that involved movement are called motor tics, whereas tics that involve sound are called vocal or tics. Symptoms of Tourette syndrome are…