1. Read the Dem Bones case study written by Alease Bruce of the Department of Health…
thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in that particular moment, but that the same…
ARCHAEOLOGY/ANCIENT HUMAN REMAINS Archaeology is the scientific study of past cultures and the way people lived based on the things they left behind. Archaeological techniques involve finding the site, use of specialists, use of technology, dating methods, and preservation/ conservation. From the techniques used to study the remains of human bodies and the specific locations in which they were found, it is possible to learn details of their lives prior to their deaths and then later preservation. Three specific cases where the study of human remains has led to an insight into the persons life are the Ice man, Lindow man, and Tollund man. Finding the site is the first step which involves chance finds where archaeologists come across the remains…
This zombie like disorder is called Cotard’s Syndrome (or Cotard’s Delusion or Walking Corpse Syndrome) named after Jules Cotard, a French neurologist who first had seen this disorder in a patient. In this rare mental disorder people imagine that they are decomposing, dead or non-existent. In one such case was a 20-year-old male diagnosed with bipolar disorder described his feelings of distorted reality. (“My liver and stomach are being destroyed," and, "My heart doesn't beat," and, "I don't have muscles.") (American Neuropsychiatric Association (2000) Cotard's Syndrome in a Young Male Bipolar Patient retrieved from website http://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=100699)…
Necrotizing fasciitis is commonly known as , flesh eating bacteria (infection). Is a disease condition of rapidly spreading infection, usually located in fascial planes of connective tissue that results in tissue necrosis (dead and damaged tissue). The disease occurs infrequently, but it can occur in almost any area of the body. In many cases have been caused by Abeta-hemlytic streptococci (Streptococcus pyogenes), and many different bacterial genera and species, either alone or together (polimicrobial) can cause this disease. Also in some cases mycotic (fungal) species causes necrotizing fasciitis.…
“Somatoform disorders are characterized by the presence of physical symptoms or concerns that are not due to a medical disorder” (Hansell & Damour, 2008, p. 224). Individuals who suffer from somatoform disorders experience symptoms of physical disease or defect when there is nothing wrong with their bodies medically. Factitious disorders are similar to somatoform disorder in that individual’s fake bodily symptoms to give others the perception that he or she is sick (Hansell & Damour, 2008). Somatoform disorder symptoms date back to 1600 B.C.E where it was known as hysteria. Freud described hysteria as a disorder that involved physical symptoms that were the result of repressed anxiety that provoked the impulses of physical symptoms (Hansell & Damour, 2008). In 1980 the DSM-IV-TR moved away from the term “hysteria” and associated the symptoms as specific somatoform disorders (Hansell & Damour, 2008). According to the DSM-IV-TR, there are five subcategories of somatoform disorders: Psychogenic pain…
Sleepwalking, also known as somnambulism or noctambulism, is a sleep disorder belonging to the parasomnia family. Sleepwalkers arise from the slow wave sleep stage in a state of low consciousness and perform activities that are usually performed during a state of full consciousness. These activities can be as benign as sitting up in bed, walking to the bathroom, and cleaning, or as hazardous as cooking, driving, violent gestures, grabbing at hallucinated objects, or even homicide. Although generally sleepwalking cases consist of simple, repeated behaviors, there are occasionally reports of people performing complex behaviors while asleep, although their legitimacy is often disputed. Sleepwalkers often have little or no memory of the incident, as their consciousness has altered into a state in which it is harder to recall memories. Although their eyes are open, their expression is dim and glazed over. Sleepwalking may last as little as 30 seconds or as long as 30 minutes.…
– They are not allowed to talk about it within the family, or seek outside…
• Lack of responsiveness or a feeling of detachment from others. Trouble with memory, feeling of derealization.…
Acute stress disorder develops within one month after an individual experiences or sees an event involving a threat or actual death, serious injury, or physical violation to the individual or others, and responds to this event with strong feelings of fear, helplessness or horror. The disorder is not inherited.…
Usually, the earlier symptoms appear, the quicker this disease advances. Family members of the infected person might notice “mood swings or them becoming uncharacteristically irritable, apathetic, passive, depressed, or angry.” Gaitherburg. Symptoms may become weeken with the advancement of this disease or, with some other persons, may continue or include violent outbursts or deep burts of depression. “HD may affect the individual's judgment, memory, and other cognitive functions.” Gaitherburg. In some individuals, this disease may start with uncontrollable jerks in theface, feet, and fingers, or trunk. These delvopments—which are signs of chorea— oftenget extremely worse when this person is anxious or is agitated. Cluminess and becoming off balance are also early signs of HD. In other cases people develop choreic movements later, with the advancement of HD. Chorea often generates serious problems with walking, and successfully fulling everyday activities. “The disease can reach the point where speech is slurred and vital functions, such as swallowing, eating, speaking, and especially walking, continue to decline.” Gaitherburg One may not even be familiar with other family members. Many, however, are able to express emotions and is aware of their…
There are many factors that contribute to the possibility of a person to acquire this illness and precise to say, this is often brought on by a crisis in life. This crisis results to an individual’s depression, pressure and stress. When one is faced on total depression with his or her problem, he or she cannot think of himself clearly and sometimes this may lead to sudden change in behavior and the person starts to show positive signs of mental illness. This may include illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, psychosis, depression or dementia. There are also neuroses, psychoses, psychological and personality disorders.…
According to the first situation, “Your grandmother believes that part of her body is missing and cries out about this missing part all day long. You show her the part that is missing but she refuses to acknowledge this contradictory information,” I believe her behavior is abnormal. The first thing that drew my attention of the grandma’s abnormality is her being delusional or psychotic. Delusional is a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind. The grandma thought that a part of her body is missing and then denies that it’s actually there after her body part is shown to her. Experiencing hallucinations may be dangerous because she may be reckless to herself. If this continues it can lead to Dysfunction because believing a false statement can affect an everyday living since the grandma cries about her missing body part all day.…
Grief is not essentially classified medically as a mental illness, however the symptoms are similar to depression. Although there is currently an exemption for bereavement in the diagnostic criteria that allows for such symptoms to persist for up to two months after the death of a loved one, more than two months of persistent and pervasive depressive symptoms maybe diagnosed as a major depressive disorder (MDD) in the context of bereavement. These symptoms may include a depressed mood, anxiety and sadness, lack of interest in re-engaging in the world or of forming new relationships. This exemption acknowledges that while grieving can look and feel virtually identical to depression, it is also recognised that it is not depression, as we know it. The new version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) will remove the bereavement exemption from the diagnostic criteria and the very appropriate reaction to the death of a loved one described above may be diagnosed as MDD.…
Population: 36 million in 200; down to 26 million in 600; back up to 36 million in 1000…