Todd’s syndrome‚ more frequently referred to as Alice in Wonderland syndrome‚ it is a disorienting neurological condition that primarily targets children‚ mostly young woman between ages of 2-13. Alice in wonderland syndrome affects human visual perception and involves an array of symptoms that include transient altered perception of the shapes of inanimate and animate objects that appear to be smaller or larger than normal. There can also be an impaired sense of passage of time or the feeling of
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Patau syndrome is a disorder that occurs due to the appearance of a person’s thirteen chromosome three times (trisomy 13) instead of only twice in the cell. In some cases of the disorder‚ only a select percentage of the cells display the third thirteen chromosome while others contain the average amount of pairs‚ this is known as mosaicism. The extra chromosomal material in the cell can lead to many problems in the developmental stages of the humans life‚ these developmental issues cause severe mental
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Year 12 English Standard Assessment Task Part A: Reading & Writing – Analysis Written by Izak Lucas-Parr Text 1: Edward Scissorhands (Film) Directed by Tim Burton Edward Scissorhands (1990) tells us a story about an artificial man‚ Edward ‘Scissorhands’‚ who was made by a lonely inventor in his mansion atop a hill near a small town. Long after his inventor’s death‚ Edward is brought into society by Meg‚ a local resident and encounters many new and interesting things as he attempts to belong in
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In Tim Burton’s expressive film‚ Edward Scissorhands (1990)‚ audiences are exposed to the gothic world of Edward‚ played by Johnny Depp as he struggles to fit into the conformed and opposing world of the town below the dark mansion that he inhabits. This film is mainly directed at teens and adults and not children under eleven years of age. Even though most children would understand the storyline and recognise the characters intentions‚ they may not fully appreciate the true morals and themes of
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steroid-dependent and frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome Shori Takahashi & Naohiro Wada & Hitohiko Murakami & Satoshi Funaki & Tetsuji Inagaki & Kensuke Harada & Michio Nagata Received: 3 March 2006 / Revised: 3 August 2006 / Accepted: 17 August 2006 / Published online: 17 October 2006 # IPNA 2006 Abstract An awareness of the triggers of relapse is critical for the control of steroid-dependent‚ frequently relapsing nephrotic syndrome (SDFRNS). We have investigated the triggers‚ usually
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vocalizing certain things that come out of your mouth‚ these actions are called tics. Tics are sounds or movements they can’t control. Children ages 6-18 years of age and a few adults living with Tourette syndrome have to deal with on a daily basis. Commonly known for its vocalization‚ Tourette’s syndrome is a disorder that affects the Nervous System. Individuals that are affected by this disorder tend to make sudden movements or sounds‚ also known as tics‚ they can’t control. An example of TS is someone
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Korsakoff’s Syndrome Korsakoff’s syndrome is a disorder in which a lack of thiamine results in anterograde and retrograde amnesia — those with the disorder exhibit the loss of newly formed memories‚ and a degeneration in their ability to remember events from their past (Spiegel‚ Lim‚ 2011‚ p. 15). Found generally in alcoholics‚ the combination of their compromised metabolism and thiamine deficiency results in Wernicke’s Encephalopathy‚ which then progresses to Korsakoff’s syndrome (Thompson‚ Guerrini
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appropriated‚ Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton in 1990. Both Frankenstein and Edward Scissorhands show Gothic displays. Marry Shelly who wrote about a man-made monster‚ who was very different from normal people and appeals have disrupted human’s serenity. In contrast‚ Tim Burton uses his protagonist Edward Scissorhands‚ who is also extraordinarily unalike human beings. They are unable to evolve around human beings due to the effects of longs periods of isolation. Edward Scissorhands and
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The first time Edward Jenner heard about smallpox was when he was a young practitioner. He heard a woman that said she was not going to get smallpox because she already had cowpox. At that time it did not make sense‚ but later on did. After he became a physician‚ he founded that smallpox and cowpox were similar because they were diseases derivatives from the same “family.” Time passed and in one of his consultations‚ he went out on the field and during this transition Mr. Jenner observed that some
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INTRO Prader-Willi syndrome or PWS‚ is not a disease many people have knowledge about‚ or have even heard about it. Only about 1 in 25‚000 children are born with this rare syndrome. In 1956‚ Prader-Willi was first described by Andrea Prader‚ Heinrich Willi‚ and Alexis Labhart. Prader and Willi‚ both Swiss pediatricians‚ and Labhart‚ an internist‚ were the first people to publish a report on this syndrome (Nord‚ 2015). In the research‚ they described characteristics observed of the affected children
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