Essays Tagged: "Epilepsy"

Two Brains? About the brain's two hemispheres.

ly increases our ability to solve problems morecreatively, but to control physical maladies such as epilepsy and migranes,replace certain damaged brain functions and even learn to 'thin' into thefutur ... nted leftbrain) does poorly. The right hand may even intervene to mix up thedesign.Some people with epilepsy can control their seizures by concentratingactivity on the hemisphere that is not affected. ...

(4 pages) 168 0 3.2 Jan/1993

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Your Brain

ly increases our ability to solve problems morecreatively, but to control physical maladies such as epilepsy and migranes,replace certain damaged brain functions and even learn to 'thin' into thefutur ... nted leftbrain) does poorly. The right hand may even intervene to mix up thedesign.Some people with epilepsy can control their seizures by concentratingactivity on the hemisphere that is not affected. ...

(4 pages) 137 1 4.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

Alfred Tennyson

ennyson had a lifelong fear of mental illness, because several men in his family had a mild form of epilepsy, which then was thought of as a shameful disease. His father and brother Arthur made their ...

(4 pages) 113 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

This is an essay about the originality of mental health and where it is going from here. How mental health use to be viewed and how far we have come from there.

ntally ill and admitted to mental hospitals who were actually suffering from physical ailments like epilepsy and brain tumors. Today researchers are learning about the biological origins of many menta ...

(7 pages) 410 2 4.2 Oct/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Your Brain

ly increases our ability to solve problems morecreatively, but to control physical maladies such as epilepsy and migranes,replace certain damaged brain functions and even learn to 'thin' into thefutur ... nted leftbrain) does poorly. The right hand may even intervene to mix up thedesign.Some people with epilepsy can control their seizures by concentratingactivity on the hemisphere that is not affected. ...

(4 pages) 67 0 3.0 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology

This is a great story report on Saint valentine! I got a very good grade!!! Four Pages Long!

ple buy chocolates for each other in his honor. Saint Valentine is the patron saint of, bee keepers,epilepsy, fainting, greetings, plague, travellers, and young people. So why do so many people celebr ... about them. They do this because on this day, Saint Valentitne, not only the patron of bee keepers,epilepsy, fainting, greetings, plague, travellers, and young people, he is also the patron saint of ...

(3 pages) 88 2 4.9 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

"The fotunes of Silas Marner" by George Eliot.

o a mysterious rigidity and suspension of consciousness.' Silas lives in a time where catalepsy, or epilepsy, as we would now call it, is not known. This particular seizure allows William, one of Sila ... the people wary of Silas, because they are only simple 17th Century village folk and are unaware of epilepsy, they believe that he is experiencing 'visitations'. Jem, then, recounts the tale down at t ...

(7 pages) 44 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Epilepsy

"Epilepsy is a nervous system disorder that produces sudden, intense bursts of electrical activity in ... y briefly upset a person's muscle control, movement, speech, vision, or awareness."My definition of Epilepsy is pretty much the same; however, I would not have used the word briefly as it makes it sou ... unt the 5% of children who have seizures caused by fevers.) It affects all age groups. About 14% of epilepsy patients are under 15 years old and 24% are over 64, with 62% being between those ages. Eve ...

(4 pages) 77 1 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Women's Rights Essay

le Trotula Plataerius was the leading Italian physician in obstetrics, gynecology, dermatology, and epilepsy (Mahaffey 2 http://www. hsu.edu/faculty/). Most of the doctors of this time were men, so th ...

(3 pages) 85 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Feeding a client who has cerebral palsy

e care given to a male client, aged 26, who suffers from cerebral palsy and quadriplegic spacsicity epilepsy.Due to client-x's severe learning disability, he is only able to communicate non-verbally ( ...

(6 pages) 130 0 0.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Medicalweed

. Marijuana or cannabis can be used for medical purposes,for patients with the HIV virus, glaucoma, epilepsy, and many other illness or painsomeone might suffer from. It should be made clear that mari ... elief but not as a cure for neurological disorders.Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease, and epilepsy can benefit from marijuana use.Patients who suffered from a spinal cord injury that used ma ...

(7 pages) 18 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Marijuana Being legalized for Medicinal Purposes

Law must allow medical marijuana, court rules about a man named Terry Parker, who is suffering from epilepsy (a chronic illness). They support marijuana use for medicinal purposes like Terry's, becaus ...

(5 pages) 114 2 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

A Marketing Plan for a Nursing Intervention

of illnesses as other people. They are also more likely to have certain medical conditions, such as epilepsy or psychiatric disorders.Psychiatric disorders are more prevalent in people with learning d ...

(27 pages) 360 1 4.5 Jun/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

People Are Split-Brained (Roger Sperry)

ctically independently.Sperry and his colleagues conducted several experiments on a patient who had epilepsy who had the "bridge" (a nerve bundle) between the left and right hemispheres of the brain s ...

(2 pages) 30 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Stress

king place of an injured player on the Field Hockey team.The stress of having an older brother with epilepsy is unexplainable. I have to take care of him and how to understand the way he thinks and do ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Epilepsy Oral

Epilepsy is a neurological condition, which is characterized by repeated convulsions or seizures. Th ... ure to this condition however it is treatable through medical therapy or through surgical treatment.Epilepsy is the earliest recorded brain disorder. People with epilepsy have been feared and isolated ... psy have been feared and isolated by society throughout history. Ancient Greeks thought people with epilepsy had mystical powers. Romans treated people with epilepsy as lepers and outcasts. Other theo ...

(4 pages) 7 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Madame bovary 2

g.In 1844, Flaubert was struck with a then strange illness, that was later assumed to be related to epilepsy, which was a much feared, mysterious illness considered to be a connected to a divine curse ...

(8 pages) 19 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

The disease of masturbation

ues within society. For science to conclude that masturbation causes such aliments as blindness and epilepsy it appears evident that science is being misguided by values of the time. I believe that sc ... sex maybe longer.At first masturbating was thought to cause dyspepsia, constriction of the urethra, epilepsy, blindness, vertigo, loss of hearing, headaches, impantency, and loss of memory. As well as ...

(5 pages) 18 1 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Epilepsy

t people jokingly say to their friends, but there are 50 million people world wide that suffer from epilepsy, which is the tendency to have repeated seizures that originate in the brain. What happens ... torm" of electrical activity in the brain. There are many reasons why a person might develop epilepsy. Hereditary plays a big part. The chances that a child of a parent with epilepsy will have ...

(4 pages) 19 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Drugstore Cowboy: How the Film Denigrates Drug Use

ere the four characters enter a store separately. Nandine creates a diversion by pretending she has epilepsy in order to distract the owner of the shop. As a consequence, the owner calls an ambulance. ...

(5 pages) 5 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol