Elephant Man's Disease

WKRC reports Monika Burgett who's son does have neurofibromatosis, the genetic disorder causing tumors to form on nerve tissue, but allegedly turned it into a full blown illness that he wasn't suffering from from, claiming he was in pain, he couldn't eat, and needed more oxygen to breathe after being treated in Houston and Austin.

time to understand the many Disorders that have been discussed in out textbook. In my simple

In the article Asthma: Versatile Treatment for A Versatile Disease by Kevin R. Murphy, he discusses the many factors that affect asthma and how inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) are used for all different levels of asthma. Kevin R. Murphy brings up factors such as air pollution and smoking that contribute to the variable nature of asthma which affect people with asthma every day. I will be evaluating the points that Kevin R. Murphy made about the factors that affect asthma and how versatile treatment is for asthma.

The main symptom of these disorders is tumors that form on the ends of nerves throughout the body. NF 1 is most commonly

Neurofibromatosis affects about 100,000 Americans. This disease can affect all ages, sexes, and ethnic groups. Neurofibromatosis is a nervous disorder that causes tumors inside and outside of the body. According to Norris M. Haynes (2011), Some individuals may only have mild skin lesions, and others may have more physically disfiguring tumors and life threatening complications. The chance of having this neurofibromatosis is a large concern to the patient and family, which is why it's important to understand the disorder. The three main factors of understanding what neurofibromatosis is, are signs and symptoms, causes and diagnosis, and treatments for the disease.

Even though mental insufficiency is normally mild, NF1 is a known factor of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder caused by a gene mutation on chromosomes 17 or 22. Beginning in the nervous system, this disorder can create multiple tumors throughout the body, although for NF1, tumors are mostly located on the spine. But NF2 can also cause tumors to grow on the cranium, which can damage sight or hearing. There is also a third type of neurofibromatosis, but little is known about it.

If you’re not paying attention, the mind can be a tricky labyrinth. The less you know about it, the more inexplicable and frightening it becomes. For example, why do seemingly benign elephants wreak havoc upon villages? In “An Elephant Crackup,” Charles Siebert explores the aberrant nature of these elephants and correlates them to their traumatizing upbringing, deprived of community and kinship. The biochemistry of the human mind, analyzed in “Love2.0” by Barbara Frederickson, serves as a worthy addendum to Siebert’s conjecture. “Love2.0” explains that the brain, hormones, and nerves work in unison to build emotional fortitude, stimulate oneself, and express positivity resonance. Siebert’s ideas of elephant culture and trans-species psyche can put Frederickson’s theory of emotions into practice. The absence of certain hormones within elephants, provided their fragmented community, can explain their volatile outbreaks. Alternatively, the reinstitution of human parental roles into elephant culture can help reconstruct their broken emotional states of elephants and rebuild their resilience; this healing process can also extend to humans.

Commonly known as elephant man syndrome, Proteus syndrome is a very rare condition that is characterized by an overgrowth of bones, skin, and tissue. The organs that are affected grow out of proportion. The condition is named after a Greek god Proteus known to change its shape. The condition was first described by Drs Michael Cohan and Samia, when they first described it in 1976, only 200 cases were confirmed worldwide. Currently, we have about 170 confirmed cases. Proteus syndrome is a progressive disease meaning, people are normal and then symptoms start showing as the disease progresses (National Human Genome Institute.2013).

In an analysis of the effects of exploration, an obvious outcome is the exchange of diseases between the Old World and New World. Often, it is the illnesses brought to the Americas that are detailed in great length as they had a more severe consequence: the elimination of 80 to 95 percent of the native population. However, The Curious Expedition is told exclusively from the explorers’ point of view, which highlights their experience. In the game, the two diseases they can suffer from are malaria and an unspecified jungle fever. Malaria is classified as an Old World disease as documentation exists confirming it was present in ancient Greece and there is no evidence of it in the Americas before the age of exploration. It flourished when brought

First, NF has many different symptoms and causes. NF1 causes skin features such as freckling all over the body, toumbers all over the body including the brain, bone abnormalities, nerve and tissue damage. NF2 causes all of the NF1 symptoms but there are only toumbers in the central nervous system. A mutation at the 17th chromosome causes this disorder. 50% of children of NF carriers will get the disease. Neurofibromatosis can also cause extreme learning disabilities.

Elephantiasis, also known as Idiopathic Elephantiasis, is a disease where parts of the body are severely enlarged. This rare disease is caused by an obstruction in the lymphatic system that causes large amount of lymph to build up in the area. Areas normally affected by this are the limbs and external genitals. In places where this disease is reoccurring, the initial cause is believed to be from a tropical parasitic disease. It affects the lymph nodes and lymph vessels.

On the one hand, it is critically important to itemize and understand the inter- relationships of the various elements of NF1 on their own. On the other hand, realizing how those elements relate to the respective ages of the persons with each of the several NF disorders, may also contribute to their individual health care and to the understanding of the disorder’s pathogenesis in more general terms. For example, virtually everyone with NF1 will manifest café-au-lait spots (CLS) in the first year of life, while an NF2 vestibular schwannoma may not be obvious until the affected person’s3rd

Lymphatic filariasis, also known as elephantiasis, is a human disease caused by parasitic worms known as filarial worms.[2][3] Most cases of the disease have no symptoms.[2] Some people, however, develop a syndrome called elephantiasis, which is marked by severe swelling in the arms, legs, or genitals.[2][6] The skin may become thicker as well, and the condition may become painful.[2] The changes to the body may harm the affected person's social and economic

Van Sant’s film represents the reality of high school, focusing on the look of its beauty, characters, while also ignoring the basic grime inherent on most campuses. Van Sant takes pride in portraying a valuable image. What’s in the room really touches you if it is closely examined. The hallways and the fields of the school are in pristine condition, staying abnormally clean, almost too clean for a school. Despite this seeming glorification of the building, the hallways are kept as a constant secondary to the sharply focused characters the camera constantly follows. This really takes the focus away from the bare walls and empty hallways and places it directly on the students. The film isn’t about the location that it occurred, but more about the people that it happened to. The focus is on the students of the film, both figuratively and literally. The camera appears to look like it’s never stop moving. It does halt for brief pauses that seem to relax the viewer. There is some frustration upon watching because you can’t collect all the data you need to deconstruct the film. However the scenes do go go back and forth with each other sometimes. At one point you may notice that you’re following a student and it will cut into the perspective of another student whom will pass by the student that was originally being followed. This sort of filming can cause confusion but employs a nice twist to the film. The plot doesn’t post the events in chronological order. When a