H. M.: A Case Study

As two new co-advisors step up to lead HOSA, Health Occupations Students of America, Lisa Cardillo and Sarah Brink do their best to assist the club. The goal of HOSA is to introduce health careers to students, for the hope to enhance future health care. Students who are interested in the health related fields can benefit from joining the club since HOSA allows them to have an opportunity to shadow health professionals. Being dedicated towards the club and having motivation to lead, Cardillo and Brink use their experiences to help guide students to find their passion. Familiarizing themselves on how HOSA runs is a challenge for the new co-advisors; however, other obstacles that they have to face are planning field trips, and helping students

“Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder that attacks the brain's nerve cells, or neurons, resulting in loss of memory, thinking and language skills, and behavioral changes. These neurons, which produce the brain chemical, or neurotransmitter, acetylcholine, break connections with other nerve cells and ultimately die. For example, short-term memory fails when Alzheimer's disease first destroys nerve cells in the hippocampus” (Alzheimer’s Association Foundation.) The destruction of the hippocampus is very serious because the hippocampus is a structure in the brain’s limbic system that plays an important part role in memory (Ettinger 91.) Its is responsible for forming organizing and storing memories.It connects the memories to structures and senses like smell and sound. “The hippocampus is a horseshoe shaped paired structure, with one hippocampus located in the left brain hemisphere and the other in the right hemisphere. The hippocampus acts as a

A: MHP educated Ty’Kevinyon on why meeting with the MHP was important and valuable. MHP defined engagement and the engagement process. MHP provided information to illustrate the benefits of engagement and socialization. MHP instructed Ty’Kevinyon on the importance of being honest. MHP provided positive reinforcements for increased engagement and positive behavior.

What major government HIT initiatives have been taken by the government in the last twenty years? Include relevant key terms in your post. For example, RECS is a key term. RECS are regional extension centers that offer training and support for primary care providers in the process of transitioning to EHRs.

A 30-year-old man named John has no memory capacity due to hippocampal damage from birth. He still cannot remember most of his past. His family tries to help him by going through old photos and watching home videos. John has to write everything down. Routines help keep him organized and learning is something he has to concentrate on more. He travels by train because of his bad memory. He has traveled by train hundreds of times but has to continue to write down directions. John gets on a train heading to see neuroscientist, Dr. Faraneh Vargha-Khadem of University College London. She discusses her work with him. The hippocampus is crucial to memory. Compared to a normal person’s, John’s hippocampus are half the size and are not automatically registering. Dr. Vargha-Khadem asks him to draw a picture she shows him. He does pretty good. One hour later, she asked him to draw the same design from memory. He could not do it. His ability was completely compromised, she said. John’s memory is stuck in the present and he will not be mentally able to time travel to the past or future.

The IHMD, Dr. Maria Tonel works along side the claims examiners on claims with expected disability in excess of six weeks to assure the injured worker’s medical care is properly managed. The IHMD acts as a liaison on behalf of the claim examiners directly communicating with the treating physician with regards to the injured worker’s medical treatment plan, the administration of prescription drugs, and whether the injured worker is a viable candidate to return to the work force. The implementation of the IHMD will positively impact the claims department on multiple levels. (1) the claim’s examiners will have the assurance the injured worker’s medical treatment is appropriate (2) target return to work dates will be more accurate, while also reducing

The area I chose from the HCAHPS survey for my final project is communication with nurses. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services explain there are three broad goals that shape the HCAHPS survey. One goal that stands out in relation to this topic is that the public reporting of the survey results is designed to create incentives for hospitals to improve their quality of care (“hcahpsonline.org,” 2015). As a nurse, you can make or break a patient's experience with one encounter. Communication is integral to the nurse-patient relationship and to deliver high-quality, compassionate care for patients. Developing rapport is vital to promote good patient care. When nurses communicate efficiently with interest, listen actively and demonstrate

Client A had her four month old baby removed from her care despite our best efforts at a 1027 hearing. It was alleged the baby had fractured ribs, and it was either the father or mother so charges were filed against both parents. The trial stretched out over several months and after cross examining the doctor who testified and putting the primary physician on the stand, the Court came back with a finding that our client did not abuse her daughter. Her daughter was immediately returned to her care. Client B is an immigrant who has been a client of HLAS for many years. At one stage, client B had all of her children removed from her care. She worked very hard to get all of her children back, and her two youngest were the last. The father of

Twenty-seven-year-old Henry Molaison, more often referred to as H.M., and his parents had a tough decision to make the August of 1953 (Ogden). When Molaison was only seven years old, a bicyclist hit him and knocked him out for several minutes, leaving a large gash on the side of his forehead. It was that accident that caused him to develop seizures, mild at first, but growing in severity. When he was sixteen, he had his first tonic-clonic seizure, or one that affects the entire brain, and from that day on, he had ten or more of them per day. As one might expect, it made high school difficult, and he dropped out once due to teasing (Dittrich). H.M. eventually went to a different high school, and it took until he was twenty-one before he could get his diploma because of the severity of his seizures. Even his jobs at Ace Electric Motor Company and Royal Typewriter became too dangerous to continue, so he spent most

His explicit long-term memory was mainly affected. Meaning that his mind without a hippocampus was only able to make “initial impressions” hindering him from keeping the memories for long period of time and the memories would simply just disappear (Kean, 2014). This is why he was unable to remember specific facts, events and what made him “Unable to form new memories”(Kean, 2014). The surgery also affected H.M.’s short-term memory. He was able to “Remember a random numbers for 15-minutes”, with the use of rehearsal this task would lengthen his short-term memory but he would forget that the task had even taken place 5-minutes later (Kean, 2014).

Hippocampus is a small, curved region, which exists in both hemispheres of the brain and plays a vital role in emotions, learning and acquisition of new information. It also contributes majorly to long term memory, which is permanent information stored in the brain. Although long term memory is the last information that can be forgotten, its impairment has become very common nowadays. The dysfunction is exemplified by many neurological disorders such as amnesia. There are two types of amnesia, anterograde and retrograde. Anterograde amnesia is inability in forming new information, while retrograde refers to the loss of the past memory. As suggested by Cipolotti and Bird (2006), hippocampus’s lesions are

His non-declarative memory remained mostly intact, as he could still learn new skills with some effort. This was shown majorly in an experiment where H.M. learnt to trace a star reflected in a mirror, and it proved that while the hippocampus deals with conscious memories, other parts of the brain process different types of memories, such as this performance skill (Holt/Corkin). Before Molaison, researchers didn’t know very much about how memory works, or what areas controlled it, as is exemplified by Dr. Scoville removing H.M.’s hippocampi, unaware of the damage it would cause. In December of 2008, H.M. died, donating his unique brain to science. It was cut into 2,000 slices (Ogden), each of which were scanned to create a digitised 3-Dimensional map of H.M.’s brain for everyone to study

Milner and her students spent so many years studying H.M. because they’d hope to gain new knowledge of the brain and memory. At the age of seven, H.M had been knocked down and started to have seizures at the age of ten. In his mid teens, those seizures were becoming stronger. The stronger the seizures got the less H.M was able to work because they would interfere constantly. The bilateral medial temporal resection procedure which H.M. underwent, resulted in not only controlling his seizures, but it also brought him a lot of other complications like memory impairment. For instance, he could only retain new information for a short term. After so many years of testing, the results were not only an advancement to development of cognitive neuroscience,

Doctors and scientists dispute the exact role of the hippocampus, but agree that it has an essential role in the formation of new memories about personally experienced events. Some researchers prefer to consider the hippocampus as part of a larger medial temporal lobe memory system responsible for declarative memory. When a long-term, declarative memory is made, certain neuronal connections in the temporal lobe are strengthened, and others are weakened. These changes are fairly permanent, however some may take weeks or months before they are complete

Without the hippocampus, the information from the short-term memory (STM) cannot be stored in long term memory (LTM). The hippocampus is a very important part of the human brain to store our memories. If we lost it, we will lose all our conscious memories. From Henry’s case, it also discovered that there are multiple memory storage areas located at different parts of the brain while the hippocampus is important to consolidate short-term memory to long-term memory. The removal of hippocampus caused Henry to suffer until he died as he lost the ability to make new conscious