Bizare Illness: Alien Hand Syndrome

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Narcolepsy is a sleeping disorder that affects 1 in about 2,000 people in the United States. Many people are unaware that they have this disorder, and it goes undiagnosed. Narcolepsy affects your sleeping pattern, including irregular patterns in your Rapid Eye Movement (REM), and significant disruptions in your normal sleep/wake cycle. There is no cure for this disorder, but it is treatable. We also don’t know what causes it.

Disorders are abnormal conditions that affect the normal functioning of body organelles. There are various disorders that affect the function of the human body. They are caused by exposure to harmful substances, deficiency in essential components of a balance diet, infections from disease vectors and many others. Urgent care is needed for any detection of disorders in patients because lack of treatment makes them develop into diseases. This paper highlights some of the disorder depicted by the symptoms of the three different patients in the attached article. In addition, the article details the epidemiology, pathophysiology, risk

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Commonly known as Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder (DSPD) and other names, is a disorder in which the persons internal body clock is not in sync with the morning-rise evening-sleep pattern of the majority of people. Individuals with this disorder are not able to sleep and wake at the times that are regulated by normal work and school hours. They usually get enough sleep to keep them at a functional level through the day but not enough to be considered “well rested”. Polysomnography and actigraphy are tests commonly ordered for some sleep disorders to determine the illness. The cause of Delayed Sleep Phase can include a variety of reasons; puberty being one of the main causes, but some people are born with the disorder. The short term and long term effects of this illness is unfortunate for a person’s overall health. Overall cures to this disorder have not been found yet. Doctors have suggested sleeping pills to help or other alternatives. The disorder affects the timing of sleep, peak period of alertness, the core body temperature rhythm, hormonal and other daily cycles.

| This sleep disorder is most common in women, persons with rheumatoid arthritis, people who are iron deficient or persons who are in kidney failure. It affects less than 4% of the population.

As stated in a previous statistic, sleep disorders unfortunately target a wide variety of ages. Children are commonly affected by Sleep Apnea, teeth grinding, Night Terrors, Nightmares, sleep walking, Restless Leg Syndrome, bedwetting, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Adults tend to be affected by Insomnia, Hypersomnia, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, Sleep Paralysis, Hypopnea Syndrome, and Noctoria. Sleep disorders are very common and also very dangerous in some circumstances. Ill treating or ignoring sleep disorders can lead to lethargy, poor mood, lack of motivation, and may negatively impact

The complication is that many of the symptoms associated to this illness can be confused with a number of other conditions early on.

There are numerous diseases that can affect the human body, but some of them are so rare, and not much is known about them by medical professionals. People who experience symptoms of these rare diseases are often unable to get a diagnosis. When no name or label is given to a set of symptoms, it can be frustrating and heart-wrenching.

The factors used for diagnosing OSA were limited to overweight males in there 40’s; it is now known that OSA affects men and women of any age and children. The first sleep disorder was identified in 1956. The disorder was named “Pickwickian Syndrome” patients that suffered from this syndrome were all overweight and experiencing daytime sleepiness. The name Pickwickian comes from a Charles Dickens play “Pickwick Papers” one of the characters-Joe the fat boy-was so sleepy he fell asleep standing up (Dement 175). OSA was not discovered in the United States until 1970 when Dr. William C. Dement was asked by a colleague at the Stanford University Medical School to do sleep recordings on a group of Pickwickian Syndrome patients. The results of the all-night sleep study concluded that there was a significant amount of disruptive breathing through out the night. In 1965 a group of European researchers did a similar sleep study. At that time all of the studies of Pickwickian Syndrome were conducted on subjects during the daytime while the patients were awake and experiencing their daytime sleepiness. The European sleep study had found that patients stopped breathing for several seconds, many times a night, Dr. Dements had reached the same conclusions after his study showing that some patients stopped breathing for as long as 90 seconds per apneic episode this was a potentially deadly disorder. Unfortunately the Europeans discovery of this condition went

Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder which the brain are unable to regulate sleep wake cycles normally.

Description: A sleep disorder in which breathing is repeatedly stopping and starting do to the brain not sending proper signals to the respiratory muscles, which are the muscles that help you breathe.

Through a medical approach, we have discovered some symptoms that illustrate this fact in the case

Many disorders and diseases can result from abnormal sleeping patterns that are triggered from sleep deprivation. The most common forms of sleep disorders include insomnia, sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and narcolepsy (NINDS 10). All of these sleep disorders begin from sleep deprivation and can be managed once they are diagnosed correctly. According to Urban, “Nervousness, dizziness, and sleeplessness may occur”, as a result of sleep deprivation (1). This proves that the slightest health changes can occur if sleep deprivation becomes a problem. According to NINDS, “The disorders and the resulting sleep deprivation interfere with work, driving, and social activities” (10). This shows that the effects of being sleep deprived can drastically change one’s everyday

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sleep forever? It won’t seem like a bad thing for us sleep-deprived-busy-bodies. But for those who suffer from Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, will it be like a fairy tale? In the fairy tale a simple kiss can wake up the princess and there’s always a happy ending. But did you notice that when the princess fell asleep, she was unable to move forward and remained stuck in bed while the world outside keeps on living? Did you notice that the princess became