Neurological Disorders: A Case Study 42: 42-Year-Old Women

Literature Review: The Effectiveness of the use of Sensory Therapy for Elderly Adults Diagnosed with Dementia.

Kathy, a 20-year-old woman, awakens one morning to a tingling, numb sensation covering both of her feet. This has happened to her a number of times throughout the year. In the past, when experiencing this sensation, within a couple of days to a week the numbness would subside, and so she is not too concerned. About a week later, she

Patient is a 50-year-old-year-old left-handed white male who presents with his wife for evaluation of multiple symptoms that have been present since an MVA in 02/2013. At that time, he was T. boned and his car was totaled. He has amnesia for the event and is unaware whether or not he hit his head. The airbag did deploy. Afterwards, he was confused and noted significant pain in his neck and upper back. Since then, he has had multiple symptoms. He does have involuntary twitching on the right, more than left, both hands, legs, and sometimes feet. He demonstrates one of these twitches and it looks like a focal myoclonic jerk of a limb. These occur on a daily basis. He also has problems with his left thumb and index finger locking up. When he is fatigued, especially when his neck gets tight, he has some problems with word finding, paraphasic errors, and syntax errors. He did see Anthony P. Knox,

Weakness or numbness on one side of the body or in an arm or leg.

People suffer from many different mental diseases that lead to death. One of these diseases is CTE. This disease is found most commonly in athletes, military veterans, and others with the history of repetitive brain trauma. These athletes are mostly football players who suffer from repetitive brain injury from head on collisions. CTE stands for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy which is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE is a very consequential condition that should be taken seriously to help prevent health disorders in the future.

Addiction, such as drug or alcohol addiction, is explained by a Dr. Nora Volkow in a HBO series on addiction as "a disease of the brain that translates into abnormal behavior." This disease is known as brain disease which "refers to disruptions in the brain 's motivational and reward circuitry that results from the cumulative effect of repeated use of certain substances." The documentary, Addiction, drove home the point that drug addiction is a brain disease that is a chronic condition but one which can be treated and taken care of. These are the claims of Dr. Volkow and others in reference to people who deviantly drink or are addicted to either licit or

Patient is an 86-year-old right-handed white female who is a poor historian. She states she saw me several years ago, but cannot recall for what. She did see Geoffrey Starr, MD in 2011 for episodes of numbness and tingling in the right side of her cheek. He did a workup, which included the EEG, EMG, and carotid studies. She was complaining of some right upper extremity and left lower extremity numbness and tingling as well. These were all negative. Her PCP switched her from aspirin 81 mg to Plavix 75 mg. Dr. Starr added Trental to that. The patient states that over the years, she continued to have the numbness and tingling episodes of the right side of her face. The last several seconds at times, rarely

The patient is an 80-year-old right-handed white female, who presents with her male partner for evaluation of left lower extremity symptoms. She did present for an EMG nerve conduction study in May. At that time, she gave a history of intermittent numbness into the anterior lateral thigh. The numbness rarely extended below the knee at that time, and it rarely occurred on the right. There was no clear radicular component. Her exam was normal. Her EMG of the left lower extremity was limited because she is on Pradaxa, but it was normal and CBs were consistent with a mild motor neuropathy. The diagnosis was possible meralgia paresthetica. The patient now states that the numbness is intermittent. It is on the anterior thigh, but now it goes down into the calf anteriorly and

Genetic instability refers to temporary or permanent unscheduled alterations within the genome occur and can occur both at chromosomal or nucleotide level. Instability at nucleotide level consists of increased frequency of base-pair mutation or amplified number of nucleotide repeat units such as trinucleotide repeats (TNR) in a gene which will show altered expression and malfunction of RNA and/or protein (Castel et al., 2010).

Dementia is just one of the many illnesses that is plaguing older and senior Americans. Dementia and Alzheimer’s are looked at as the top two illnesses that is said to decline the health of so many.

Dementia is a clinical state caused by neurodegeneration and characterized by a loss of function in cognitive domains and behavior. There are several different causes of dementia including Alzheimer’s disease (AD), vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Hippocampal sclerosis of aging (HS-aging) is prevalent in people of advance age, manifests with distinct neuropathological properties, and can be present with or without other dementia causes and vascular diseases [1].

Per medical report dated 10/26/15 by Dr. Parsioon, the patient was initially seen on 9/14/15 for evaluation and treatment of cervical pain. At that time, he had neck pain without radiculopathy and bilateral hand tingling. IW stated that physical therapy made his neck pain increase and he wanted to make sure that it is okay to continue this. His chief complaint is pain in his neck radiating to the right shoulder and arm. He states the only time he gets the tingling sensation in the hand is

Epilepsy can appear during any ages and it appears in animals and humans. It is the fourth most common neurological disorder. Epilepsy is a disorder when a person or an animal has unpredictable seizures. Someone has a seizure when their brain has abnormal and sudden electrical activity. There are so many triggers for seizures, such as missing your medication, being sleep deprived, being extremely stressed, low blood sugar, and bright lights.

Robert is suffering from a chronic brain disease due to his addiction to methamphetamine. Drug addiction should be considered a chronic disease since people that are addicted to drugs have a hard time getting rid of their addiction, and it further deteriorates their brain. Drug addiction is difficult to defeat, and although people may be clean for a while countless go back to their drug addiction because they crave to feel the pleasure and happiness that they felt when they were abusing the drug. Robert has stated to me on numerous occasions that he wants to get rid of his addiction, but due to the happiness and pleasure he feels when he uses methamphetamine it makes it extremely difficult. In addition, he has expressed to me that jail

This is a 62-year-old right-handed white male who states that in November of last year he started noticing some numbness in the soles of his feet. It has progressed to the point where the numbness in the soles of his feet is constant. He also may have some constant numbness and tingling on the dorsum of his feet. He also notes that his legs will fall asleep more easily now, at which point he will have the numbness and tingling up to his knees. This largely resolves when he moves around. He is also having some numbness and tingling in his hands, which is intermittent and positional. He also more recently has been noticing a sense of weakness in his legs and arms. There is no dermatomal pattern