Parkinson’s Disease Before 1817 Parkinson’s disease was called “Shaking Palsy.” James Parkinson wrote a medical essay on the disease entitled “An Essay on the Shaking Palsy.” However‚ 60 years after‚ Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893)‚ a French neurologist‚ discovered the importance of Parkinson’s essay and renamed the disease after Parkinson’s (Goetz 1). Parkinson’s disease is a long-term degenerative neurological condition that affects a person’s ability to control his or her own body movements
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INVESTIGATION Peripheral Facial Palsy. Descriptive Study at the University Hospital in Getafe Alejandra Ayala Mejías‚ José Carlos Casqueiro Sánchez‚ Enrique Durio Calero‚ and Ricardo Sanz Fernández Hospital Universitario de Getafe‚ Getafe‚ Madrid‚ Spain Objective: Our aim is to validate a protocol for the diagnosis and treatment of peripheral facial palsy. Material and method: A cross-sectional and retrospective descriptive study was made of 63 patients diagnosed with facial palsy and given out-patient follow-up
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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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congenital‚ which means the bones are asymmetrical at birth; or neuromuscular‚ which means the scoliosis is symptomatic of a systemic condition like muscular dystrophy‚ Friedreich ’s ataxia‚ or cerebral palsy. In this case study‚ the patient suffers from neuromuscular scoliosis because he has cerebral palsy. Some of the signs that a person suffers from scoliosis include: • A spine that curves inward or downward too much • A leg that appears shorter than the other • A shoulder that appears lower
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Throughout the time‚ humanity has developed one ability more than anything; the ability to communicate‚ verbally in particular. Language is an evolving concept for sure‚ because without the great vocabulary‚ humans would not be any different than monkeys. The ability to exchange information is shared by every communication systems‚ and a number of non-human systems share several features of human language. The primary difference between human and non-human communication is that animals are
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1. Introduction Epilepsy is defined as a brain disorder characterized by an enduring predisposition togenerate seizures (International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the InternationalBureau for Epilepsy (IBE)‚ 2005). It is a neurological disorder consisting of recurrentseizures that resulted from excessive‚ uncontrolled electrical activity in the brain (Wang‚2011). The ancient Babylonian believed that seizures can occur when a person wasvisited by a demon and thus‚ the different kinds of seizures
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subject to being born alive and it being an advantage to the nasciturus. He further stated that Paul Johannes is entitiled to share in the estate of the testator in equal amounts to his mother‚ brother and sister. The principle that emerges from this case is that the other heirs have to wait until it is a established that the foetus is born alive before they can
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Paranoid Schizophrenia: A Clinical Case Study Milcah Prasad University of Maryland‚ Baltimore Introduction Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness that is characterized by having psychotic symptoms such as delusions‚ hallucinations‚ disconnect with reality‚ and illogical thinking patterns for at least one month and having a major impact in the lives of the individuals‚ their family and friends (American Psychiatric Association‚ 2000). According to the statistics‚ “1 in 100 people develop
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CASE STUDIES Submitted for course SSC 130 Essentials of Psychology February 20‚ 2013 Assignment number 05020600 THE CASE STUDY OF: THE FALLEN ATHLETE (P.79) 1. In the story‚” The right side of Tim’s body was paralyzed and he was having great difficulty trying to talk”. Thus‚ it suggests that the left hemisphere of Tim’s brain suffered during his stroke‚ because language processing occur more in the left side if the brain. In general‚ the left hemisphere concentrates
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INTRODUCTION: Dystonia is a neurological syndrome of typically patterned‚ often repetitive twitching movements or abnormal postures‚ associated with sustained or intermittent muscle contractions (23649720). These symptoms usually worsen by voluntary action of the muscle. (24978640). It can be classified in multiple ways based on‚ the age of onset (early or late); the topographical involvement of regions (focal - single region‚ segmental - two or more adjacent regions‚ multifocal - two or more non-adjacent
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