The study of brain injury is an imperative tool when trying to understand the in-depth workings of “the most complex object in the known universe”. We have been studying the brain for thousands of years. From Hippocrates in 468BC‚ describing epilepsy as a disturbance of the brain‚ to our modern day MRI and CT scans able to image the brain in great detail our knowledge is always growing. However the study of Brain Injury has given us the most advances throughout this journey of discovery. The
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EEG Motor Planning Study - Alternative Credit Option Questions Please read the article provided about neural synchrony and cognitive dysfunction. Email a typed response in this document to the questions listed below. 1) Explain the reasons why neural synchronization might be an important mechanism in the brain related to perception and thinking. Support your answer with two experimental examples discussed in the article. Neural synchrony is associated with cognitive functions that require
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is a 10 months old male who was admitted due to seizure on February 07‚ 2012‚ its impression is epilepsy GTC‚ uncontrolled‚ PCAP and AGE with no signs of dehydration. He also has G6PD deficiency since birth. The group chose him for our case study since we believe that his case was interesting and since he has a G6PD deficiency since birth we are more interested on how epilepsy is related to it. Epilepsy is a medical condition that produces seizures affecting a variety of mental and physical functions
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The nature/nurture debate is a debate that I did not learn much about until I was in college. Before college‚ I was mostly taught that it is either nature or nurture. The main points of the nature/nurture debate was discussed in class. There are people that think the nature/nurture debate as one or the other. Nativists are people who believe in nature. They believe everything that a human is made up of is determined by genes only; genetic determinism. There are people who believe that everything
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around the world people have the same problems to face as we do. They just refer to them by different words and or different meanings. In “The Spirit Catches You‚” a young girl by the name of Lia has a condition that Western Medicine considers to be epilepsy‚ but in her culture of the Hmong they believe it to be qaug dab peg. Some might consider these two conditions of the body and soul to be the same thing or quite different. Western medicine’s way of dealing with the issue is far from the same as
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through selective breeding. The Nazis required the sterilization of those who carried genetic defects‚ such as types of blindness and deafness and certain diseases which were thought to have been in someone’s DNA‚ such as Huntington’s Chorea and epilepsy.
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Commissurotomy Commissurotomy is a surgical procedure that can pertain to either the treatment of the cardiovascular system‚ treating psychiatric disorders‚ or treating forms of epilepsy. Scleroderma is a disease that thickens and hardens the skin‚ which can also be treated by a commissurotomy in certain circumstances. For example‚ commissures can be expanded in the corners of the patient’s mouth to enable dental treatment in the oral cavity. A commissurotomy can also resolve a encephalic embolism
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environmental stimuli‚ that results in limited alertness with respect to the educational environment‚ that: (i) is due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma‚ attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder‚ diabetes‚ epilepsy‚ a heart condition‚ hemophilia‚ lead poisoning‚ leukemia‚ nephritis‚ rheumatic fever‚ and sickle cell anemia; and 28 These students are unable to function physically and/or academically with peers of the same age and grade expectancy level. They
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P2 – Explain the potential effects of five different life factors on the development of an individual P3 - Explain the influences of two predictable and two unpredictable major life events on the development of an individual P2: Explain the potential effects of five different life factors‚ on the development of an individual. Introduction: I will be explaining 5 different life factors which all have hazardous effects on the lives of individuals. Cystic fibrosis Is an illness which is genetically
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References: Foldvary-Schaefer N‚ Wyllie E. Epilepsy. In: Goetz CG‚ ed. Textbook of Clinical Neurology 3rd ed. Philadelphia‚ PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2007; chap 52. Krumholz A‚ Wiebe S‚ Gronseth G‚ et al. Practice parameter; evaluating an apparent unprovoked first seizer in adults (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Epilepsy Society. Neurology. 2007;69(21):1996-2007. Pollack CV Jr. Seizers
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