diagnosed me with a learning disability in central auditory processing, and also had a very weak short term memory. Basically, this means that my brain processes information slower than the average. Although my hearing is normal, it takes my brain longer to comprehend what I hear and then process it. Sometimes I miss parts of what people say because my brain is not able to understand everything that is being said all at once so I need directions written down or given slowly in order to truly comprehend
Alzheimer’s Disease Mary Wipf PHGY 220- Gerald McGraw April 2, 2017 In the world, there are new cases of dementia for somewhere between 10 and 15 people per 1000. Five to eight per 1000 are cases of Alzheimer’s. Dementia is a term that simply defines a mentally deteriorated condition. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic, progressive neurodegenerative disease and is the most common cause of dementia in older people. Alzheimer’s is a disease of the brain and it has
testing options are ways that scientists can still study and research different things while also saving the lives of animals that are used in animal testing everyday. Even though many people depend on animal testing to discover different cures
1. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 2. About a year ago, I was on Pinterest, and I saw a pin about “26 books that will change the way you see the world”. I read through the list and found a lot of interesting books, one of which was Stiff, so I bought about 5 of the 26 and started to read them. I started Stiff at the end of my junior year, but only got about a third of the way through, so when I saw that we had to read a non-fiction book about biology, I knew that this was
Depending on the severity of the illness, there are three different phases that are used throughout nursing interventions. The first phase is the acute phase which consists of safety and preventing injury. It is crucial to identify who is at high risk for suicide. Establishing a therapeutic relationship may facilitate this assessment. It’s important for the nurses to allow the patient to express their feelings without feeling judged. When the patient expresses thoughts of suicide, they must be
Readers are taught how to use ABA to teach speech and language, social, motor, and adaptive skills through a system of repetition, reward, and goal adjustment. The author also discusses what families should consider before choosing any treatment method for
His father then realized that Stephen was not feeling well and took him to the doctor to get checked. Hawking 's next two weeks were spent in a medical clinic in order to run more tests. A few days passed and the doctors had the results for Stephen, he was at the early stages of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. Though the news was devastating to him, he did not let that stop him
scientists stick cosmetic products in your eyes to test it for eye irritancy. Imagine being forced to breathe smoke for up to six hours straight, every day, for as long as three years. You are not being fed, you cannot drink, you get deprived of sleep. They isolate you and amputate you. They implant electrodes on your brain to manipulate it. They sew your eyes shut, force you to do drugs and place you in a cage with electrified floor bars to test you for depression, psychosis, hopelessness and desperation
decision-making as Fear is the main reason on why and how people make decisions in life. It controls the emotions how people everyone lives their lives. Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that something or someone is dangerous, and likely to cause pain or be a threat. Whether they admit it or not, everyone is afraid of something. When people are faced with fear, their reaction is either fight or flight. This comes back to instincts and how if someone perceives an event as harmful
You can also opt to have your thyroid surgically removed because the medication can’t be tolerated by your body or because you do not want to take the radioactive iodine. In the United States, thyroid conditions affect “nearly 30 million Americans, and yet more than half of them remain undiagnosed, “ Dr. Simona Scumpia (2006) warns. The disease is more common than diabetes or heart disease. Thyroid conditions can lead a person to develop other health problems