I am writing this letter to you to as a student at MIT‚ who is very concerned about her internship with Professor Tsai‚ since you are considering cutting back your research funding while Professor Tsai is doing such great work to find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). As an intern with Professor Tsai‚ I am against your decision because P. Tsai has worked so hard to create a valuable research that will help in the process of finding a treatment for AD. Alzheimer’s disease has become a serious
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Rest Tremor Rest tremor occurs when the limb is completely at rest against gravity; that is‚ the affected body part continues shaking when the patient is sitting and relaxed (Louis & Ferreira‚ 2010). The affected body part‚ however‚ can stop shaking when the patient intentionally moves it. This type of tremor includes Parkinson’s disease‚ multiple-systems atrophy‚ supranuclear palsy‚ and drug-induced tremor‚ each discussed in the paragraphs below. PD. PD as originally described by James Parkinson
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The exact cause of Alzheimer disease is unknown‚ but scientists have proven that there is a strong link between Alzheimer disease and some factors such as genetic‚ environmental‚ and life style factors. Alzheimer disease not only affects the cognitive ability of the patients‚ but also it has behavioural and psychiatric impacts on the patients. In addition‚ family members and friends of the patients would be also affected. Since Alzheimer disease gradually get worse over time‚ damaged brain could
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I agreed with Gawande approached who addresses the condition of aging. He raises the issues on the quality of life in the last day. In the book Being Mortal‚ as the bestselling author Atul Gawande he tackled the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life‚ but correspondingly the process of it ending. Medicine has triumphed in modern time‚ transforming birth‚ injury‚ and infectious disease from upsetting to manageable. But in the foreseeable condition of aging and
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What is music? Music is a composition‚ from the vantage point of a musician is the amalgamation‚ or combination of tone‚ rhythm‚ harmony‚ and melody are all combined to make one uniform sound and also to convey a message to the intended audience along with many other beneficial things such as alleviating stress. What is music therapy? According to an article titled Music Therapy‚ from World of Health‚ “music therapy is the use of music‚ along with other therapies‚ by a trained and credentialed
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process of ’cognitive housekeeping’ whereby a practitioner would explore their own values‚ beliefs and practice to a professional situation. It is also frequently perceived that a structure is helpful to support and encourage more than just simple reflections ‚Jones (2009). Popular theorists have emerged in reflective practice‚ Schon cited in Smith (2011) expands on the concepts of Dewey (1933) and Kolb (1984) by not simply learning from errors but to explore one’s own theory. Introducing the concept
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Moon‚ University of Exeter Introduction - reflection and reflective writing Reflection lies somewhere around the notion of learning and thinking. We reflect in order to learn something‚ or we learn as a result of reflecting. Reflective writing is the expression on paper/screen of some of the mental processes of reflection. Other forms of expressing reflection are in speech‚ in film‚ in graphic portrayal‚ music etc. The expression of reflection is not‚ however‚ a direct mirror of what happens
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In day to day life‚ people often reflect on events no matter how big or small the issues are. Reflection is a reviewing process of people’s experience‚ in order to describe‚ analyse‚ and evaluate to reshape people’s action of doing (Reid 1993). Reflective practice is essential for practitioners especially for health professionals‚ who interact with people that may be going through a changing in their life‚ so reflective practice enable practitioners to learn the experience and improve their service
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understanding of the fundamental requirements. Following a process of study and extensive analysis of appendixes 6‚7‚8‚9‚ my own development needs are most clearly in the areas of stress management‚ updating of Literacy and numeracy skills. Review of my reflections ( see appendix 10) demonstrates the need for more effective stress management strategies to be put into place as the notes show clearly defined moments of stress due to the previous lack of organisation and staff rotation‚ as well as the fact that
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the next page show different levels of reflection. They are based on a critical event that happened to a 22 year old in the workplace‚ after graduating. There are three accounts of the same event: giving a presentation at a team meeting. Each account is written with three different levels of reflection: • Descriptive writing: a description of events. There is no discussion beyond description and there is no evidence of reflection. • Descriptive reflection: there is a basic description of events
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