When I started working at Good Samaritan Society in Moscow, I had three patients who suffered from Parkinson’s Disease. At the time I didn’t know much about the disease other than people who do have PD usually suffered from a constant tremor. I knew that…
Essays on Neurology & Nervous System Diseases
Cerebral palsy is described as a, “group of permanent disorders affecting the movement and posture,” and a person’s ability to maintain balance. These disturbances can appear, “in the developing fetal or the infant brain,” and is the, ‘most common physical disability of children”. Most often…
Depression is a completely unexpected result in women who birth a child. Besides many other emotions that are completely normal such as joy, fulfillment, and pride, depression is especially powerful because of its inappropriate nature. The fear and anxiety just do not make sense to…
I have always found it compelling when faced with a psychological problem that requires me to explore different approaches to a solution. This coupled with the satisfaction and sense of achievement when I reach a justified explanation, which makes psychology a challenging yet very rewarding…
There’s a side of how social media affects up negatively but not many are aware of it. There have been multiple researches done where it says that people are most likely to suffer from mental health issues the more time you spend on social media….
Stress is commonly viewed as the brain’s response to a demand or a challenge. These stimuli are referred to as stressors and can be real or perceived. Not all stress is bad, as it is needed for survival and to be kept out of harm’s…
Why schools should begin later? Red eyes, constant tiredness, and emotional instability; are all hallmark traits of the average teen, they also happen to be classic hints that someone is sleep deprived; this correlates with the fact that the majority of teens don’t get the…
This essay will discuss the intervention plan for a client with a premature start of dementia. Using the biopsychosocial framework that is based on person centred care, a need assessment and a care plan will be developed for the client. The client we will be…
This finding helped reach the conclusion that psychopaths do not have the same as normal people would do for others. Shows how psychopaths do not have the same sense of emotional responses to regular people do, who show the lack of empathy. This study helped…
A mental illness that alters the way a person feels, thinks, or behaves is a personality disorder. Personality disorders affect a person’s ability to function in culturally and socially “normal” ways . They have difficulty perceiving and relating to people and situations which causes significant…
Even in contemporary society the ability to point out someone with a mental illness requires an acute mind. Mental illnesses can most definitely vary as well, ranging from psychotic and personality disorders. Within the text of Hamlet, the protagonist Hamlet exhibits traits that would deem…
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic autoimmune inflammatory disease where myelin is destroyed and variable damage to axons lead to loss of motor and sensory functions. According to the world health organization, it is one of the most common causes of neurological disability in young adults…
In our society, the concept of mental illness is considered taboo. People consider the victims to be lying or in a delusion. They are even ready to believe it as a work of witchcraft but are not ready to consider it as a normal illness….
Peter is concerned about his lack of knowledge of epilepsy which his daughter Amber (16 years old) has been diagnosed with. Amber is worried she might have to give up activities she enjoys. She has also started studying for her A levels and feels like…
The rationale of the authors of this study was based on previous epidemiological research associating links for cannabis as a risk factor for psychotic illness such as Schizophrenia (SZ). The study by Di Forti et al. (2015) looked at this link between patients of first…
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