History & examination Key diagnostic factorsshow all presence of risk factors (common) Strong risk factors include prematurity‚ multiple births‚ maternal illnesses (e.g.‚ chorioamnionitis‚ TORCH infections‚ thyroid disease‚ iodine deficiency‚ thromobotic disorders)‚ birth asphyxia (due to placental abruption‚ rupture of the uterus‚ prolonged/obstructed labour‚ instrumental delivery)‚ brain malformation‚ metabolic/genetic disorders‚ severe hyperbilirubinaemia‚ periventricular haemorrhage‚ neonatal
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1. Introduction 1.1Cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy is one of the most serious neurological disorders which are usually diagnosed in the early childhood. Cerebral palsy is a disorder of the primarily motor body functions. Caused by damage or incomplete development of the brain areas that regulate‚ supervise and coordinate movements and balance of the body. The gravity of the condition varies from case to case. Some have very light disabilities and show no apparent disability. Others however‚ have
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Bell’s palsy is a disease that causes paralysis in the muscles in the face. It affects the seventh cranial nerve that travels through a narrow canal in the skull which becomes inflamed‚ swollen or compressed. Typically subsides within one to nine weeks. When Bell Palsy occurs‚ the function disrupts the facial nerve‚ causing an interruption in the messages the brain sends to the facial muscles. The affected nerve causes weakness or paralysis on one side of the face‚ which leads the mouth to droop
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Cerebral palsy remains one of the most common debilitating diseases in the world. Factors such as neuromuscular incoordination‚ use of soft diet and delayed oral clearance of food make maintenance of optimum oral hygiene a challenging task in these children. The compromised oral hygiene in turn make these children highly vulnerable to dental disease. Maintaining optimal oral/dental health in CP children is of utmost importance as these children usually suffer from several associated general health
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Essay 1 Vero Psychology1010 W 2:30-5:20 The cerebral cortex is the outer most layer of the brain‚ and consists of a collection of nerve cells bodies made up from gray matter. The brain is divided into two hemispheres‚ and in order for communication to take place between each hemisphere the neurons talk to each other‚ and that’s called corpus callosum. A cool fact about a human cerebral cortex is that it’s larger than any animal. The cerebral cortex is divided into four lobes that also have
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Anatomy & Physiology Body Systems Research Paper Bells Palsy October 24‚ 2012 Introduction Bell’s palsy is described as facial paralysis or facial weakness. However‚ it can result from a large number of disorders including tumors‚ trauma‚ infections and central nervous system diseases. Bell’s palsy is thought to result from a Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection involving the facial nerve and remains. It will affect about 1 in 60 people during their lifetime. Men and women are equally affected
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Strokes and Bell’s Palsy present symptoms that are fairly close to each other. Lyme disease and diabetes could also cause the numbness and the paralysis in the case of lyme disease. Unilateral facial paralysis and/or droop is exhibited in Bell’s Palsy and a stroke‚ as well as speech difficulty. An inability to furrow eyebrows and a loss of the nasolabial crease are mainly attributed to Bell’s Palsy‚ unlikely to occur with a stroke (Mayhew). An ability to close the affected sides’ eye and ear or
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Cerebral laterization and sex differences in intelligence and visuospatial processing Cerebral lateralization can be defined as “the functional specialization of the two cerebral hemispheres” (Groen‚ Whitehouse‚ Badcock & Bishop‚ 2012‚ p. 257). In this section general intelligence and visuospatial processing concerning cerebral lateralization and sex differences are discussed. Cerebral laterization of intelligence may have an effect on one hemisphere‚ sometimes both‚ depending on how general abilities
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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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The Shaking Palsy and The Stem Cell INTRODUCTION 1- Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome characterized by at least two of four cardinal features: bradykinesia (slowness and minimal movement)‚ rigidity‚ resting tremor (trembling)‚ and an impairment of postural balance leading to disturbance of gait and falling. The most common type of parkinsonism is idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD)‚ first described in an essay by James Parkinson‚ an English physician‚ in 1817 as paralysis agitans (the shaking
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