Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy (MMD) is a disease genetically based and inherited from one generation to the next. Such disease is also known as dystrophia mytonica and Steinert¡¦s disease. This genetic defect was an unusual one that ascended from the unknown and shook the scientific community in the early 1990s. Unlike other types of dystrophy‚ MMD often doesn¡¦t appear to be a problem until adulthood and is characterized by myotonia‚ a delayed relaxation of the muscles after contraction. It is a form
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Sleep disturbance and melatonin levels following traumatic brain injury J.A. Shekleton‚ D.L. Parcell‚ J.R. Redman‚ J. Phipps-Nelson‚ J.L. Ponsford and S.M.W. Rajaratnam Neurology 2010;74;1732-1738 DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181e0438b This information is current as of May 25‚ 2010 The online version of this article‚ along with updated information and services‚ is located on the World Wide Web at: http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/74/21/1732 Neurology® is the official journal of the American
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total time they spent in any phase is going to reduced. The above figure shows that there are more shifts between stages for the elderly in contrast to young adults. 3b) Insomnia‚ physical illness‚ medications‚ nocturia‚ sleep apnea‚ increased daytime sleepiness makes older people vulnerable and due to these conditions‚ they face difficulty for falling in sleep.3c) REM might have a less important role in learning in older brains than in younger brains because brain plasticity goes down over a lifetime
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leads to headaches — but it’s a connection doctors have noticed for more than a century. Migraines can be triggered by sleepless nights‚ and 36 to 58% of people with sleep apnea wake up with “nondescript morning headaches.” 3. Inability to learn Sleepiness has long been an issue among adolescents. One study of middle school students found that “delaying school start times by one hour‚ from roughly 7:30 to 8:30‚ increases standardized test scores by at least 2 percentile points in math and 1 percentile
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Surprising Health Benefits of Sleep”). Sleep helps us to have a good health and prevent these physical and mental illness. Having good health‚ we are going to be able to keep our normal activities that we realize during the day. Another consequence of sleepiness is the risk of suffer
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important to answer this question because people need to know about the side effects of this drug. The patient receiving this treatment needs to know how they feel‚ how it is going to affect their mind‚ their ability to follow out everyday challenges‚ most of all the patient needs to know the side effects because they need to have peace of mind that some of these side effects are to be excepted and let the drug have a chance to work. This paper will provide evidence to answer this question:
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1. The health behaviour that I would like to change is my daily coffee intake. At the moment‚ I drink about 4-6 cups of coffee on average and I would like to limit it to 2-3 cups per day. Research has found that coffee consumption has both positive and negative effects on health (O’Keefe et al.‚ 2014; Ding‚ Bhupathiraju‚ Chen‚ Von Dam‚ & Hu‚ 2014; Nehlig‚ 2015; Snel & Lorist‚ 2011). Coffee consumption has been shown to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes and other cardiovascular diseases such as obesity
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temperatures will be monitored to see if there is any significant cooling effect. If this project is successful‚ this may be employed as a low-energy air conditioning system that is good for the environment and does not waste energy and create excessive heat like regular air conditioners. Chapter I. INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The world is currently experiencing problems involving our energy resources. The problem is the rate that the world’s energy demands are increasing
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Running header: Sleep deprivation University of Buffalo (SIM) (UB- SIM) Sleep Deprivation and its Effects Focusing on Effects on: Health‚ Performance and Cognitive Functions Tan Jing Wen Marius Tan Li Xuan Rayna Tan Mei Yu Teo Zi Wei Cheryl 16 Nov 2012 Abstract This paper is on the effects of sleep deprivation. The central research question of this paper is: What are the effects‚ according to recent literature‚ of sleep deprivation on someone’s health‚ performance
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Prader-Willi Syndrome: An Investigation into Paternal and Maternal Origins & Characteristics Abigail McNeal Liberty University COUN 502- Professor Myers August 15‚ 2011 Abstract Prader-Willi syndrome‚ (PWS) is a genetic disorder that occurs in about one in every eight thousand births in the United States. PWS occurs when there is a defect or deletion in the fifteenth chromosome from either maternal or paternal origins. Individuals diagnosed with PWS need enhanced supervision to address the
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