Pierre Marie, a French neurologist was one of the first to describe the conditions of what is now known as Foreign Accent Syndrome in 1907. His descriptions came from a patient who began to speak French with an Alsatian accent after suffering from a stroke. In 1919, twelve years later, a neurologist named Arnold Pick from the Czech Republic, reported a case where a patient who also suffered from a stroke, spoke the Czech language with a Polish accent. During World War II, 1941, there was another foreign accent syndrome case that occurred during the German assault on Norway. A Norwegian woman, Astrid L, suffered a brain injury due to an explosive shell during an air-raid. Astrid’s left side of her skull splintered and exposed her brain. In result of her brain being exposed, there was damage to her brain caused hemiplegia, paralysis of one side of the body; her right side, along with Broca’s aphasia, and a seizure disorder. After her sudden recovery from her injury, she was left with a German accent that was later rejected by her fellow Norwegians. Six years later, neurologist Monrad-Krohn described Astrid’s incident in a more in depth reported case. In April 2012, a Malaysian teenage student that suffered a brain injury from being involved in a motorbike accident. After her recovery, she was able to speak four new languages ranging from Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian. Other cases that involve foreign accent syndrome include a Croatian girl that woke up
She put her crew to work after they arrived to clean the facilities, get the needed medical supplies for the soldiers, and created the “invalid’s kitchen” to help serve the wounded soldiers appetizing food. A person’s mind was considered nothing beyond the brain. Era II began to evolve during the time after World War II. It was during this time that physicians first began to establish the link between disease and a person’s psyche. This was the first time that there was scientific evidence that psychological stress could contribute to many illnesses such as hypertension, ulcers, and heart attacks. During the time after WWII, the scientific community first began to study the psychological effects that the war had on returning soldiers. Despite the fact that over a million soldiers were screened out due to psychological issues, there continued to be a staggering number of psychiatric casualties. Because of this, psychiatrists were confronted with the realization that psychological weakness had little to do with subsequent distress after combat. Because of this, the term combat neurosis was changed to battle fatigue or combat exhaustion ("History of PTSD ", n.d.). Era III goes a step beyond and proposes that our mind cannot only affect our well-being, but can affect the well-being of another person, even from a distance. In short, Era II shows the importance of an individual’s mind on their own body, Era III shows the importance of an
Captain Edwards documented a cause of Shell Shock in Private F. Private F was deaf, and mute when he entered the hospital, he also reported having a headache upon entry. Captain Edwards described Private F as being depressed, irritable, and talking to himself while experiencing Shell Shock. Captain Edward’s patient’s symptoms are associated with the emotional distress that he experienced during his time in war. Shell Shock’s symptoms are associated with the mental state of a soldier and they inhibit their emotional state.
and of various identities. I was able to speak Spanish with my friends in the hallways or even in
Evidence was hard to come by when you are researching a sixth century crime, but the evidence that Robert Finlay and Natalie Z. Davis found in each of their respective sides, were very compelling. Are you going to believe Finlay, who said that Arnaud duped Bertrande, or Davis, who said Bertrande was in on the “invented marriage.” I believe that Arnaud and Bertrande were in on the “invented marriage” because he wanted a better life and she was neither a wife nor a widow and needed a husband for self-gain.
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The sound of the sirens were trapped in her head. Meanwhile, she sat in the emergency room waiting area praying for good news. “How did this happen?” she thought over and over again. After what seemed like forever, the neurosurgeon came out and broke the news to her and her family. Her father’s car accident had broken his spine in three different places, broke a couple of ribs, and left him bruised and scratched all over. The neurosurgeon said it was a miracle that he had no actual brain damage. The neurosurgeon operated on her father’s spine and put him back together with a rod. After the surgery, she couldn’t thank the neurosurgeon enough for all she had done for her father. From that day on, she knew she wanted to be a neurosurgeon so she could help people the way a neurosurgeon helped her father. Neurosurgeons are everyday heroes that have worked very hard to get to where they are, for this
The Man who mistook his Wife For a hat by Oliver Sacks is a riveting tales of cases experienced by neurologist Oliver Sacks. The book is dived in to four sections; losses, excesses, transports and world of the simple. Each section of the book details varying neurological phenomena while giving both Sacks and the patients view. Sacks’ was able to use detailed vocabulary for the different characters. Sacks’ theme presented to be to be awae of not only ythe case but the patienets background stiry. Through all the cases personal patient information was given because Sacks deemed it important to consider all aspects. Foe m, this enabled me to view the patient not just as a leaning opprotunnity, but a chance to dive into a life of someone else. Each section had at least one case that was abke to stick out to the reader.
A trained medical doctor turned psychologist Dr. Meyers first identified shell shock as a reaction to extensive trauma. He thought soldiers were repressing traumatic memories. He began by listing common physical issues such as loss of vision and hearing, tremors, and an inability to speak. He also identified issues of nightmares, sleeplessness confusion, and unexplainable fatigue.
People want to have the ability to speak a different language, but not have to go through the stress of learning it. A Georgia teen got that gift. He suffered a life-threatening head injury approximately one month ago while he was playing soccer. He woke from a coma only to discover that he speaks fluent Spanish. Reuben Nsemoh was in a coma for three days. When he woke up his family members and doctors were stunned to discover that he was speaking Spanish. Before his accident he was only able to speak a few words in Spanish, but after his accident he was fluent. He told TIME “it started flowing out” and when he tried to speak English he would have a seizure. Is his new ability was either a blessing or a curse, only Reuben would know. He is
Today, there are over 12,000 known illnesses in the world; most of these illnesses are more common and are heard of more often than others, but some illnesses are more strange and rare than one may think. In some cases, people may not call their illness an illness because it is way too “bizarre,” and they feel that no one else has the same problem as them. Some of these bizarre illnesses are a lot more common than one would think. Some of these bizarre illnesses may include; Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS), Street Light Interference data exchange syndrome (SLIde), Kleine-Levin Syndrome, Guillian-Barre Syndrome, and Foreign Accent Syndrome (FAS). Each of these illnesses are so bizarre, one probably would not think that having it was even possible.
Brain injuries, though more common than one might think, don’t always lead to serious damage for a lifetime. Even less likely was Henry Molaison, who became one of the world’s most famous brain patients after the removal of his hippocampi in order to stop his constant and severe seizures destroyed his ability to create memories.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born on May 1, 1881 at a family estate of Sarcenat near Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne. He was born into a family of eight, being the fourth born child to Emmanuel and Berthe-Adele Teilhard de Chardin. His oldest brother died in September 1902, then his youngest sister died in 1904, and his oldest sister in 1911. The death of his oldest sister greatly saddened Pierre because she was the only other religious family member. She had become a Little Sister of the Poor and worked with the poor of Shanghai. Pierre said she lead a very selfless life.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the major painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he suffered from Rheumatoid Arthritis for much of his adult life. He first developed symptoms of the disease around the age of 50, and continued to paint in spite of developing the characteristic signs and impairment of Rheumatoid. Surprisingly, his paintings appeared not to lose their quality, even in the last 20 years of his life, when he was crippled by the disease. According to Kowalski and Chung, he applied a wide variety of coping mechanisms and used his ingenuity to come up with different ways to continue painting even as his infirmities became more disabling.
The contemporary German artist Roland Nicolaus was born in 1954 in Berlin. Before turning to painting, which remained his first medium, he studied at the School of Industrial Design in Halle/Saale (1978-9). Later on, Nicolaus enrolled at the School of Art in Berlin-Weissensee (1979-83), and later conducted his studies under Willi Neubert at the Academy of Fine Arts in East Berlin (1985-8). Most of the time, his body of work diverses according to media - when his portraiture and cityscapes are marked with surreal imaginary, his collages hold a different, expressionist qualities. For several years, the artist lectured at the Berlin's University of Arts and Humboldt University (1991-2000), and around the same time began to exhibit his artworks in Berlin's venues such as the Galerie am Pariser Platz (1992), Galerie im Turm (1993), or Haus der Wirtschaft (1994). Nicolaus remains a subject to numerous exhibitions until now, including survey shows at the City
The notion of “critical period” closely connecting with “plasticity” for language acquisition is a period, somewhere in childhood or at puberty, after which leaning language becomes markdly more difficult. First proposed by Lenneberg in 1967, Critical Period Hypothesis predicts that “younger is bertter”, complete acquisition of speech can occur only before the end of neurological plasticity and speech acquired after this event will be acquired more slowly and will be less successful. He notes that the age at which persistent aaphasic symptoms result from left-hemisphere injury is approximately the same age,around puberty, at which “foreign accent” became likely in SLA. Researchers differ over when this eriod comes to an end. A particularly convincing study made by Johnson and Newport suggests that the period ends at about age 15. grammaticality judgment was tested in a large group of subjects who had immigrated to the United States at