Cerebral Palsy Cerebral Palsy is caused by a brain injury or brain malformation caused before‚ during or after birth‚ which is when the baby’s brain is under development.As a result of the brain damage a child’s muscle control‚ muscle coordination‚ muscle tone‚ reflex‚ posture and balance could be affected because of this. Can impact the child’s motor skill. In order to prevent your child from having Cerebral Palsy you have to be careful with birth injuries. In some cases‚ Cerebral Palsy cannot
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Braden Lee Neal‚ an aspiring eleven year old‚ is my brother who suffers from Cerebral Palsy (CP). Adopted from a drunken‚ strung out sixteen year old mother of three‚ Braden is a miracle and should not have made it out of the womb‚ or the hospital. My passion‚ Cerebral Palsy‚ has changed my outlook on life and will bring more awareness to living life with Cerebral Palsy. Just a little background about CP; Cerebral Palsy is the most prominent childhood disability‚ and also has no cure. There are
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of choice‚ but the experiences I have had with nurses is what made me feel the desire of becoming a nurse. No one understands what a nurse actually does until you or a family member becomes a patient. I started to gain interest when my sister with Cerebral Palsy kept getting hospitalized for different complications such as chronic pancreatitis and gastrointestinal complications. During her stays at the hospital I got the privilege to meet many bright nurses who made the biggest difference in not only
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The book’s focus is around a 12 year old girl named Melody. She is living with the disease Cerebral Palsy. She can’t walk‚ talk or feed herself. But the disease does not limit it her like everyone thinks it does. She has a photographic memory‚ and is a very intelligent individual. But she has no way to ever show any of this. Her disability stops her from communicating her emotions and thoughts‚ but it does not stop her from learning. Most of all this little girl is simply a girl. She worries what
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seriously yelled at me. “Fine‚” I grumbled back‚ “I don’t understand why I have to take all these damn pills though.” I have been at the Harvard Medical Hospital for more than three years‚ almost four birthdays‚ for tomorrow I will be 16. I have Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. So basically‚ my brain hates itself and gifts me the beauty of having episodes seizures‚ strokes‚ temporary memory loss‚ and tumors and it was decided among my parents and doctors in Connecticut that I‚ Piper Alexandra Finn‚ would
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Joseph Bogen felt the corpus callosum was a critical pathway for the spread of epileptic discharge from one hemisphere to the other (Francois et al‚ 2000). This took place in 1962 and was done by Vogel and Bogen‚ who successfully separated the two cerebral hemispheres‚ which was effective in stopping the patient’s seizures. The same procedure was also subsequently performed on a series of patients who suffered intractable epilepsy. Research on split-brain had started with animals such as rats‚ cats
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identified is the patient waiting to be seen in a clinic feeling stressed. When patient perceive that they are in frightening or uneasy situation and that they do not have the capacity to deal successfully‚ the neurons carry the messages to the cerebral cortex which is the area of the brain where thinking process comes‚ to determine the trouble. The messages sent through the amygdala which identifies the probable outcome of the trouble (Lightman‚ S. 2008). Amygdala is a part of the limbic system or
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Living with Cerebral Palsy and The Effects on Childhood and Family Living with Cerebral Palsy: In the Childhood Years Brain Damage Cerebral palsy usually is caused by factors that interfere with normal development of the brain before birth. In some cases‚ genetic defects can be a contributor to the disruption of normal brain development; other cases are caused by injuries to the developing brain. According to Levete (2010)‚ “Approximately 70% of cerebral palsy occurs
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which corresponded to the right virtual cortex. This rendered him unable to see the things which were present before the lower left quadrant of each of his eyes. Parkin (1996) observed that the patient couldn’t consciously see the things but could locate them i.e. he could process them unconsciously. Datta (2006) named it as ‘unconscious processing’. Farah‚ O’Reilly & Vecera (1993) observed that this unconscious processing takes place in the extrastriate cortex which involves dorsal lateral geniculate
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Improving hand motor functions in patients with chronic stroke: Modulation of somatosensory input into non-affected hemisphere Dissertation der Fakultät für Informations- und Kognitionswissenschaften der Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen zur Erlangung des Grades eines Doktors der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.)
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