Essays Tagged: "Neurological disorder"
Tourettes syndrome
l is a mystery surrounding Tourette Syndrome, its causes and possible cures. Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder that researchers believe is caused by and abnormal metabolism of the neurotran ... tte Syndrome is a genetically inherited disease. These other complexes are merely brought on by the neurological imbalance which affects the brain of those afflicted.Tourette Syndrome cannot be treate ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
Everything you'll need to know about epilepsy.
ondition of being overcome, seized or attacked. (2) Epilepsy is not a disease. It is a symptom of a neurological disorder--a physical condition--that from time to time, produces brief disturbances in ... 00 new cases developing each year (50% in children and adolescents) epilepsy is the 2nd most common neurological disorder, following migraines. (1) Most teachers, during their career, will have severa ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Alzheimer's Disease.
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
A brief description of the disease Sydenham's Chorea also called St. Vitus Dance.
Sydenham's ChoreaSydenham's Chorea is a neurological disorder of the basal ganglia first identified in medical literature in 1686 by Thomas ... Frequently the EEG of these patients is also abnormal with a slowed brain wave pattern. Besides the neurological components to this disease, there are several other characteristic symptoms including : ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Complete Analysis of Tourette's Syndrome, a genetic disease
Have you ever heard or seen a person scream out or jerk at random? These people could have a disorder called Tourette's Syndrome. This disorder is named after Georges Gilles de la Tourette, in ... his illness targets 3 to 4 times the amount of men than it does to women. It is caused by a nervous disorder that sends signals to the brain involuntarily. Even though, you may not want to do a certai ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Child autism
sability that typically appears during the first three years of life. It is caused as a result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain. Autism impacts the normal developme ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Learners with Exceptionalities
erferes with a person?s mental, physical or sensory abilities. (Slavin 1)A learning disability is a neurological disorder that affects the brain?s ability to receive, process, store and respond to inf ... n language skills. Children and adults with dyslexia can by highly intelligent, however they have a neurological disorder that causes the brain to process and interpret information differently. (Dysle ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology
Tourette Syndrome Introduction
sometimes Tourette Spectrum Disorder.Tourette Syndrome is best defined in the archives and pages of neurological conditions, syndromes, and disorders. Initially Tourette Syndrome was seen as extremely ... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary body movements and vocal outbursts (Tics) for at ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Alzheimers Disease, what it is, what it does to your body and why.
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Attention Deficit Disorder
t makes it difficult for some people to control their behavior. ADD has been medically defined as a neurological disorder. There are many symptoms, and not all people with attention deficit disorder s ... dical diagnosis and might cause behavioral problems.Although ADD/ADHD is one of the most researched neurological conditions, the cause of it is not known. Research has shown some that ADD could be gen ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
Multiple Sclerosis
of the sources and the desire to acquire more knowledge of this condition. Multiple Sclerosis is a neurological disorder that has no certain cause, unlike heart disease that can be caused by poor die ... be practiced to help combat the progression of Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease that affects the brain of the patient, which then complicates everyday life by ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
Autism.
tal disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. This is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain.Autism is four more times prevalent ... s of autism. Although a specific cause is not known, current research links autism to biological or neurological differences in the brain. In many families, there appears to be a pattern of autism or ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
"Tourette Syndrome" by Alexander Schmit.
Tourette syndrome is a genetic neurological disorder that affects an individual person in and involuntary movements and unexpected ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Sleep Disorders: "Select at least three of the sleep disorders discussed in class and write a brief research paper on them not exceeding 750 words."
Narcolepsy- A disabling neurological disorder of sleep regulation that affects the control of sleep and wakefulness. It may ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Common Disorders
ADHD
ADHD is said to be a neurological disorder that starts to show in some children in the preschool or early school years. I ... n, methlin, concerta, dexedrine, adderall, cylert, pemoline, and clonidine.In conclusion, ADHD is a neurological disorder that should be taken very seriously and can be treated with the right medicati ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Alzhimers
Disease Alzheimer's disease also known as (AD) is a progressive disease with an irreversible brain disorder with an unknown cause or cure. Alzheimer's is a disease characterized by memory loss, langu ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Rett Syndrome was first described by Dr. Andreas Rett in
bed by Dr. Andreas Rett in 1966 but was unknown in the United States until 1983. Rett Syndrome is a neurological disorder that affects mainly women. Boys who develop Rett Syndrome usually die early, a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
The Left vs. the Right Brain
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology > Human Biology
ADHD in Girls
males in all three subtypes inattentive, hyperactive-impulsive and combined.ADHD in GirlsADHD is a neurological disorder affecting millions of individuals, limiting their potential, affecting their f ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
r books (Goodwin, 233-235). "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" is about the narratives of his neurological disorder patients. Sacks wrote the case study of his patients with an attractive and in ... ok from being a simple collection of grotesqueries. First, he is critically inquiring the customary neurological growth, which he consider has develop into ever more mechanistic and out of feel with h ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors