Mr. Grey age 70‚ is accompanied by his wife who stated that for the past 10-12 months she has noticed that her husband has been experiencing forgetfulness‚ personality changes; and some memory loss‚ for example‚ inability to recognize familiar faces‚ places‚ or objects. Further‚ she stated that he continuously repeats the same stories‚ having forgotten that he has already told them. 1. What is the most likely diagnosis? - A probable diagnosis could be dementia base on patient’s history
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“Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in athletes (and others) with a history of repetitive brain trauma‚ including symptomatic concussions as well as asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head” (What). Since the frontal
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intracranial hemorrhage‚ Head-injury with evidence of a possible devastating herniation or possibly a brainstem compression. If someone has a high ICP then it could be caused by hydrocephalus which is fluid in the brain‚ intracranial tumors‚ hepatic encephalopathy‚ and cerebral edema. The indications of Intracranial Pressure Monitoring are vital to understand if a patient needs the
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husband ‚ son and two cats. Libba Bray is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gemma Doyle trilogy ( A Great and Terrible Beauty‚ Rebel Angels‚ and The Sweet Far Thing): she also won the Michael L. Printz Award-winning for her book Going Bovine‚ Beauty Queens. Libba Bray was a L.A. Times Book Prize finalist; for her book series‚ The Diviners. In Beauty Queens‚ one of Bray main characters is named Miss Taylor and this young lady was from Texas as well‚ she kind of portrayed her in the
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hemoglobin samples migrated the same distance. Because the proteins traveled around the same distance it means that the hemoglobin must weigh about the same. The results display that mammals have hemoglobin with homologous molecular weights. Pure bovine hemoglobin was used as the control for this experiment. The control was used so that hemoglobin from the mammalian samples could be compared and identified. Hemoglobin is a protein found in red blood cells and is made up of four subunits consisting
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Vitamin Name Deficiency effects’ Vitamin B1 thiamine Deficiency causes beriberi. Symptoms of this disease of the nervous system include weight loss‚ emotional disturbances‚ Wernicke’s encephalopathy (impaired sensory perception)‚ weakness and pain in the limbs‚ periods of irregular heartbeat‚ and edema (swelling of bodily tissues). Heart failure and death may occur in advanced cases. Chronic thiamine deficiency can also cause Korsakoff’s syndrome‚ an irreversible psychosis characterized by amnesia
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America is a country that loves all kind of sports‚ but the three major’s sports that almost all Americans love are baseball‚ basketball‚ and football. Football is a core part of the American experience. Football is considered a must see to understand the United States‚ but have Americans ever taken a step back and looked at the drawbacks of American Football? Even though football is a sport that people have enjoyed for a major part of America’s history‚ recent studies have shined a light on the
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Head to head contact is when a player lowers his crown and hits his opponent directly in the head. This can cause a player to be ejected for the rest of the game and potentially miss the next game. Though head to head contact is illegal in present day football‚ I believe this rule is unnecessary because it takes away from the game by eliminating the amount of exposure used in a contact sport. Although as football evolves‚ so do the rules as well. Regulations against players hitting defenseless
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space - Impairs fine motor skills‚ and slows reactions. - Numbness and tingling in the arms and legs caused by nerve damage from depletion of thiamine (B vitamin); when severe‚ can damage other nerve endings‚ causing staggering‚ etc. (Wernicke’s Encephalopathy). - Long term drinking may result in permanent brain damage (Korsakoff’s Syndrome or ’wet brain’)‚ serious mental disorders‚ and addiction to alcohol. ON THE LUNGS - Lowered resistance to infection. - High amounts of alcohol may cause breathing
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Football is not too dangerous to be played in high school. Football is a popular sport with half a million injuries nationally. 4 out of every 1000 high school football exposures resulted in an injury and 8 of out of every 1000 collegiate football exposures resulted in injuries so that means that even if it’s played in high school or college levels there is still a risk of injuries. High school football players have a greater proportion of getting season ending injuries as in fractures and concussions
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