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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of synapses‚ leading to a slower and less efficient neuronal communication. Due to dysfunctional pruning mechanism‚ the brain fails to weed out the unnecessary synapses resulting in autism like symptoms. Autism is a complicated multifactorial disorder Autism is a collection of many diseases and it has many genetic causes. Examined brains of children and adolescents with autism and controls and found that there is a difference. Fro mearly childhood into adolescence synapses – the measn of communication
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Learning with Autism: Why Students with Autism Require a Different Learning Environment "Autism Spectrum Disorder." NIMH RSS. National Institutes of Mental Health‚ n.d. Web. 12 Feb. 2014. . Published by the National Institutes of Mental Health‚ this webpage covers just about everything one would need to know about autism: what it is‚ causes‚ symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ treatments‚ living with autism‚ etc. This web source has the most information of any webpage that I could find. The only shortcoming
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Learning and understanding human behavior could be fascinating due to the different characteristics that constitutes the human phenomena. I think psychology is like the map of the mind‚ which indicates the various factors that triggers human behavior and the outcomes of an individual’s reaction. I am intrigue to learn more about the behavior of autistic adolescents. Moreover‚ typical children ranging ages 12 to 18 years old‚ go through the different stages of maturity and responsibility. However
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movements they can’t control. Children ages 6-18 years of age and a few adults living with Tourette syndrome have to deal with on a daily basis. Commonly known for its vocalization‚ Tourette’s syndrome is a disorder that affects the Nervous System. Individuals that are affected by this disorder tend to make sudden movements or sounds‚ also known as tics‚ they can’t control. An example of TS is someone blinking their eyes repeatedly over and over again or they may blurt out words or statements they
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intellectual functioning. According to the DSM-IV-TR‚ Arnie meets the criteria for an Axis II diagnosis of mental retardation. Included in the DSM-IV-TR Axis II categories are personality disorders and mental retardation. Mental retardation is not considered a cognitive disorder or a personality disorder. There are four different levels of mental retardation specified in the DSM-IV-TR: mild‚ moderate‚ severe‚ and profound. Each level is determined by the range of which the individual scores
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phenomena of seeing “auras.” Sudden excessive flow of blood to the brain causes the parts of the brain that process shapes‚ sizes‚ textures‚ and sounds to be affected. Frequently the attacks happen just before going to sleep. This disease is not a mental disorder‚ but is a physical imbalance in the brain chemistry. Such episodes are of short duration (generally less than an hour)‚ variable frequency (up to several times per day)‚ and unpredictable. Several studies have assessed the neurological underpinnings
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behavioral interventions where therapists use highly structured and intensive skill oriented training sessions to help children develop social and language skills. Doctors may prescribe medications for anxiety‚ depression‚ or obsessive-compulsive disorder‚ antipsychotic medications are used to treat severe behavioral problems‚ and medications used to treat people with ADD can also be used to help decrease impulsiveness and hyperactivity.” The Autism Speaks website states that for those with sleep
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I will be summarizing the video “Autism what we know (and what we don’t know yet) by Wendy Chung. I will describe what she says it is what causes it in ways that it can be treated. She starts by explaining two different people with two different types of autism one that needs to use an iPad in order to talk. She explains how he will get upset and bang his head on things and then another person that is very gifted and can do math problems in his head but has trouble communicating and giving eye contact
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mid-1990s to 1/150 recently (Rodier‚ 2010). Because of the dramatic increasing of people with autism in this several decades‚ experts were working hard to find out the causes of autism and they believe that the autism is a polygenetic-multifactorial disorder which means that
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