parts of the brain are responsible. Even minor injury to certain areas can be serious‚ while other areas can be quite badly injured with little visible effect. The main symptoms of stroke are physical problems: * Hemiplegia means ‘half paralysis’. The paralysis‚ on one side of the body‚ can be either partial or complete depending
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What is atherosclerosis? Atherosclerosis (or arteriosclerotic vascular disease) is a condition where the arteries become narrowed and hardened due to an excessive build up of plaque around the artery wall. The disease disrupts the flow of blood around the body‚ posing serious cardiovascular complications. What is atherosclerosis? Atherosclerosis (or arteriosclerotic vascular disease) is a condition where the arteries become narrowed and hardened due to an excessive build up of plaque around
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Determination Everyone has experienced at least one difficult moment in their lives. Some people may have experienced many throughout their lives. Despite the struggles‚ it has not stopped many individuals from achieving their goals. Determination plays a key factor in overcoming significant odds by guiding individuals to overcome physical and socials obstacles when achieving their dream. Social obstacles are difficult challenges people are trying to raise and fight to benefit other people. A very
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threatening situations. In the waking world‚ a person’s response to a dangerous situation may vary between fight‚ flight‚ or freeze. When confronted with threatening situations‚ chemicals are released in the system which causes temporary paralysis. A temporary paralysis is a form of defense mechanism; since the brain does not distinguish the dream world and from the waking world‚ tonic immobility in bad dreams serves as a defense mechanism for the system. The times when the dreamer feels unable to move
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Convinced that the Dublin of the 1900’s was a center of spiri-tual paralysis‚ James Joyce loosely but thematically tied together hisstories in Dubliners by means of their common setting. Each of thestories consists of a portrait in which Dublin contributes in some wayto the dehumanizing experience of modem life. The boy in the story"Araby" is intensely subject to the city’s dark‚ hopeless conformity‚and his tragic yearning toward the exotic in the face of drab‚ uglyreality forms the center of the
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Mental Behavioral Case Study HCS/245 Kristene Diggins November 8‚ 2014 Jamikka Waremercer A lady came into the emergency room‚ she felt as though she had maybe had a stroke. We started to ask her questions‚ we
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Spina Bifida comes from the word for “split spine in Latin (Webster‚ 1997). It is a serious birth defect that occurs when the tissue surrounding the developing spinal cord of a fetus doesn ’t close properly. Its part of a group of birth defects called neural tube defects (Spinal Bifida Association of America‚ 2006). The neural tube is the embryonic structure that eventually develops into the baby ’s brain and spinal cord and the tissues that enclose them. In normal circumstances‚ the neural
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present for puppies. And even if the dog survives the disease‚ it is very likely that its health will be permanently damaged. A case of canine distemper leaves the nervous system impaired with little to no hope for total recover. Partial or complete paralysis is common as well as other effects on sense of smell‚ and hearing and sight
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the 1940’s‚ just as World War II was coming to a close. It was contracted through the poliovirus and spread from person to person. The symptoms could vary in severity. Some infected individuals were asymptomatic where others experienced “extensive paralysis of muscles‚ and possibly death” (Saxon‚ p. 18‚ 2001). Polio reached its peak in 1950. Declines were seen after the introduction of the polio vaccine (Saxon‚ 2001). Today‚ polio has been almost completely eradicated in the US. However‚ we are now
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heading. A disease of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that controls voluntary muscle movement. ALS‚ Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis are all names for this horrid disease. The symptoms; Difficulty breathing‚ sudden paralysis. Treatment is slim to none but there are known medications to help subside the pain that may be felt. The Cause is unknown‚ doctors are unsure if this disease is genetic or cause by one’s self. What is distinctive about ALS? The least common of
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