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    From the family tree, I observed a pattern of Presbyacusis, which originated from my father’s grandmother. Presbyacusis is hearing loss that affects people usually the age of 55. The affected person will have difficulty using the telephone and holding a conversation (Wilhelim, p.1129). Ten years ago, my grandmother needs the support of hearing aids to hold a very basic conversation. According to my grandfather, the age-related hearing loss was present within her family for many generations. From…

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    Analysis Of Alive Inside

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    “Alive Inside” allows the audience to have an insight into the lives of Nursing Homes. The entire documentary is based on Dan Cohen, a social worker, who began a new organization called Music and Memory. When watching the documentary, I constantly compared the techniques used in the nursing homes to those discussed in class. In class, we discussed the elderly and Geriatrics. The lectures dealt with elderly who had neurological disorders like: Depression, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Schizophrenia…

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    Silveris provides us research-based studies that tell us adolescent drinking has increased almost ten percent in the last ten years. The question Silveri attempts to answer is what effects does this have directly on adolescents, and on society as a whole. Is this the effect of underlying factors such as alcohol being easier to obtain by adolescents or even an increase in depression by adolescents? Additionally Silveri discusses the types of harms adolescent drinking has directly the brain.…

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    Cauda Equina Analysis

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    Riva Lehrer is an artist who was born with a neural tube defect known as spina bifida. Spina bifida results when the bones of the spine do not form properly around part of a baby’s spinal cord (WebMD.com). As a result, Lehrer grew up being labeled as a “freak, retard, or cripple” (mankatotimes.com). She addresses these experiences by focusing her narrative portraits on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body” (rivalehrerart.com). In doing so, she redefines the idea of…

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    A 60-year-old named Gerald suffered a medial cerebral artery infarction which resulted in severe expressive aphasia and right-sided hemiparesis. After one year of speech therapy, Gerald’s articulation improved, but it still takes great effort. He was also severely impaired in his ability to name objects. When his doctor held up a coffee cup, Gerald was unable to name the object, however, he knew it was “something that you hold” and “it holds stuff.” He related his symptoms of not knowing the…

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    “He stopped breathing and turned blue!” exclaimed a young mother to the 911 operator. It was a cold winter night. As a mother went to check on her toddler son sleeping in his crib, she made a shocking discovery. The toddler had stopped breathing, his body was stiff as a stick, his eyes had popped wide open, and his skin had turned blue! The terrified mother immediately reached for the phone and dialed 911 for help. As she waited for the ambulance to arrive, the distraught mother performed CPR…

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    When society hears a person strive to become a doctor they relinquish a sigh of respect because the environment for a pre-health student is competitive. Many aspects form the intensive four-year plan to ready the individual for a tougher medical school learning process. Therefore, the pre-health requirements in college are essential for building a thorough candidate for the medical field. This knowledge of how a medical school candidate is formed will inform others of the hard work students must…

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    Dementia Essay

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    Dementia According to alz.org, there are “more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, 1 in 3 seniors die with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, and every 66 seconds someone in the United States develops the disease.” Alzheimer’s is just one of the many forms of dementia. And what is dementia exactly? Dementia is when a person is unable to think, remember, or reason to the point where it affects one’s daily life. Background Before dementia was even known by that term, in the 6th…

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    Blood Brain Barrier Essay

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    Scientific Background and Long-term Objectives Blood brain barrier (BBB) is a selectively permeable membrane that controls the passage of substances from the bloodstream to the central nervous system (CNS).Poor penetration of the drugs with various compositions across the BBB is evident in the biomedical research. This impacted greatly the pharmaceutical interventions of various neurodegenerative disorders, brain tumours and impairment of the CNS [1].BBB is the main route for the therapeutic…

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    Elizabeth Otte Case Summary

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    Introduction Authorities are investigating what seems to be an indication of murder after an infant child was discovered stuffed in the microwave early morning by relatives. Elizabeth Renee Otte and Joseph Anthony Martinez Sr., the mother and father of infant baby Joseph Lewis Martinez Jr. lived with the father’s elder parents in a small, one brick rancher in Lenexa, Virginia. Elizabeth Otte, who apparently suffers from severe epileptic seizures and blackouts up to 50 minutes, claims that she…

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