Cri Du Chat Disorder

Cri-du-chat Syndrome is caused by a specific deletion in chromosome 5. It will result in severe mental retardation, abnormal facial features, a small head and an abnormally developed larynx which can causes the child's cry to sound like a cat. Some affected individuals rarely survive past early childhood.

For many centuries there has been multiple arguments about what causes mental illness. Hebrews believed that mental illness was a punishment from god for those who sinned. The way they cured one another was spiritually and through health. They believed that if you had a healthy diet that it would prevent you from any diseases. The physicians were also priests who had “special ways” to heal with higher powers. The biggest theory was that whoever had a mental illness was caused from supernatural forces. There had been many different treatments to help cure ones suffering. Dating back to 5000 BCE was the first treatment preformed on record, showing that one would chip a hole into the human skull to release evil spirits. Later on, the Ancient Egyptians

This syndrome is from a mutation of a gene on chromosome 15 and this causes problems in the production of fibrillin-1 which is a protein that is an important part of connective tissue. The name for the gene is FBN1. Basically, it is the “glue” that helps to support the tissues in the human body. A child born to a parent with this syndrome has a 50% of having it. However, in the remaining 25%, neither parent has the disease which gives them a 1 in 10,000 chance of having a child with this disorder. When a child of two unaffected parents is born with it then the genetic mutation occurs in either the egg or sperm cell at the time of conception.

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the effects of the disorder and how genetics and biochemistry work together to create this

The video on ROSC and Co-occurring Disorder made various good points such as depicting that treatment does not equal recovery. Furthermore, I believe this video is used to inform individuals about health care insurance coverage such as Medicaid and affordable care act, but this video also helps individuals learn about the treatment process. Additionally, the video makes a good point that ROSC should be life stage appropriate and flexible. Also, I agree that continuity of care should focus more on collaboration less on hierarchy. Under the SAMHSA section of the video, I believe the statement about synthesizing knowledge to share with practitioners needs to be enforced more due to the lack of communication. It was interesting to learn that the health care reform impacted ROSC and COD services. White’s video was interesting due to the points he made that the time with clients is brief thus recycling people repeatedly episode of addiction treatment. The recycling through people reminded me of working at Borgess and the concept of revolving door syndrome.

A dissociative amnesia may be present when a person is unable to remember important personal information, which is usually associated with a traumatic event in his/her life. The loss of memory creates gaps in this individual's personal history.

A functional disorder is when there is a medical abnormality that is present in the human body but may not appear altered in structure. The disorders can be contributed by psychological factors such as stress and anxiety because the illness tends to not have a detectable biological cause. From the understanding that I have gain about this type of disorder is that it seems to be more based on symptoms experienced by the people it affects.

Conduct disorder (CD) represents one of the most disruptive behavior disorders of childhood.(1) CD continuos to be the predominant juvenile disorder seen in mental health and community clinics, and is of great concern because of its high degree of impairment and poor diagnosis. (2) It is characterized by a persistent and repetitive pattern of aggression, non-complaint, intrusive, and poorly self controlled behaviors that violate either rights of others or norms of society. These behaviors have a significant impact on the daily functioning of the child or adolescents and on their parents. (3,4). The prevalence of CD varied widely between as low as 1 % to as high as 16 % among children and adolescents. (5) These disparities are more likely due

This lack of protein causes deficiencies in the relaying of nerve impulses which then leads to an individual displaying the physical and developmental symptoms specific to this syndrome. Most males and about half of females with a full gene mutation have characteristics such as a narrow face, large ears, a prominent jaw and forehead and unusually flexible fingers, and even flat feet and low muscle tone due to associated problems with connective tissues (National Library of Medicine, 2014). Males tend to have a mild to moderate intellectual disability, while only one-third of affected females are intellectually disabled (National Library of Medicine). Individuals also suffer from behavioral problems that include things such attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders, obsessive-compulsive fidgeting or impulsive actions, unstable and disproportionate emotional displays, aggressive and self-injurious behavior related to difficult temperament, and features of autism spectrum disorders like hand-flapping and poor eye contact (Hersh & Saul,

In Canada, there are approximately 120,000 people that have been diagnosed with dementia or a related condition. Dementia is a progressive mental disorder characterized as the deterioration of intelligence and personality (Myers, 2009). By 2031 the number of people living with dementia will drastically increase to 750,000 due to the aging baby boomers population (Statistics Canada, 2013; Black, et al., 2010). People living with dementia require assistance with activities of daily living (ADL); this assistance is often performed by a family member acting as a caregiver (Black, et al., 2010). A caregiver is a person who contributes to another person 's social, medical, environmental and economic resources (Myers, 2009). Although family

Cri-du-Chat (cat’s cry) Syndrome is a rare chromosomal disorder that is caused by the deletion of genetic material on chromosome 5. Due to this, this syndrome has an alternative name, known as 5p-, or 5p minus syndrome. Although this genetic defect is able to be diagnosed, the cause of the deletion on the chromosome is unknown. Almost all cases of the Cri-du-Chat Syndrome are found to have no relation with family members or previous generations. This syndrome is generally not inherited, as the deletion occurs randomly during meiosis (the formation of the gametes). In about 90% of people who have this condition, the deletion is completely random and is not inherited. The remaining 10% of affected people inherit a chromosome with a deleted section from an unaffected parent. This is because the parents’ balanced

In most cases of Cri du chat the syndrome isn’t inherited. The chromosomal disorder usually occurs because of a random event during the formation of reproductive cells (eggs or sperm) or during early development. People with cri du chat typically don’t

Crouzon syndrome is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder and is the most common craniosynostosis syndrome with an incidence of 16.5/1,000,000, representing 4.8% of craniosynostosis cases, and a prevalence of 1/60,000 in the U.S. Crouzon syndrome is caused by an activating mutation of the FGFR2 gene, an important factor in the conversion of the fibrous joint areas between sutures to bone. Specifically, the missense mutation occurs within exons IIIa and exon IIIc of the extracellular immunoglobulin domain, IgIII, in 95% of Crouzon patients. Generally, cysteine residues are replaced, preventing critical disulfide bond formation and ultimately cause spatiotemporal malformations. There are at least 32 documented unique mutations, 30-60% of which are sporadic, spontaneous mutations.

Cri-du-chat is also known as 5p minus syndrome, because it is a chromosomal disorder that results when a significant portion of chromosome 5 is absent. Cri-du-chat is French for “cry of the cat”, which refers to the high-pitched, cat-like cries made by children affected with this disorder. Cri-du-chat syndrome is usually as a result of the deletion of The CTNND2 gene which is situated in a section of chromosome 5. As a result of this deletion, people with this disorder are missing one copy of the CTNND2 gene in each cell. Hence, the loss of this gene may cause serious intellectual disability and mental retardation. In addition, many of the symptoms of this disorder are physical; that is, a person affiliated with Cri-du-chat usually exhibits

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a rare dissociation of self in which an individual exhibits two or more distinct and alternating identities. In other words, two or more personalities− each with its own unique traits and individuality− seem to control an individual’s behavior at different times. Therefore, it is possible for an individual to be outgoing and enthusiastic one moment, apathetic and shy the next.