Rutter investigated the effects of privation in Romanian orphans who had been brought to the UK after being raised in very poor institutions, having suffered extreme privation. Rutter found that from the children adopted from 6-12 months of age, 40% showed continuing mental deficits and impaired brain development. Deficits included autistic-like symptoms including a lack of guilt and inability to develop relationships. A follow up study showed at the age of 11 that while the orphan’s physical development had caught up quickly compared to the control group of UK adopted children, brain size caught up more slowly and while continuing improvement was still being shown, marked adverse cognitive effects were still present, suggesting that the consequences of privation aren’t completely irreversible. Interestingly in the Rutter study those who were adopted before the age of 6 months tended to show a more marked improvement compared to their older counterparts.
My older siblings were able to overcome their obstacles in the past unlike my two youngest siblings and myself. A few years ago I was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention-Deficit Hyper-Active Disorder). My youngest sister, who is now nine, was diagnosed with Epilepsy, and my youngest brother who has just turned seven, was diagnosed with Autism. Although each disorder is very serious and has impacted my family and my own life, I have chosen to focus this essay on my autistic brother. I want to share with others what it is like living with an autistic brother and the knowledge that I have become very familiar with from observing his everyday actions.
This experiment took 22 orphaned children some with stutter problems and some without. This study was made with a thesis that states “If stuttering is learned behavior, it can be unlearned.” (Gretchen Reynolds, 2003, mytimes.com). By using this thesis to build an experiment, the children were broken into groups and some were told that there stutter was not as bad as they thought while the remaining children were told that their stutter (which was not existent) was a lot worse than the scientists had expected. Within a months’ time. the children who were told that their stutter was worse became inconsistent with their speech.
Matthew Rigsby Dr. Karuso Developmental Psych Tu/Th 9:25 11 March 2013 Major Issues: Development and Growth Since the beginning of time, humankind has been constantly striving to solve the mystery of development. Not until very recently has there been a field of study opened up to this broad field. Three major issues that still are being argued over today are: Nature vs. Nurture, Continuity vs. Stages, and Stability vs. Change. Every psychologist that majors in the field has a differing opinion on each issue, and that in turn affects the public's view on each subject and how they see development as a whole.
The fact that the parents could, and even would, deny their infant son such basic needs simply due to the fact he had been declared mentally retarded seems a major ethical faux pas. Simply based on the five focal virtues created by Beuchamp and Childress (Darr), there were multiple areas where the case of Baby Boy Doe failed to meet these criteria. Compassion could be argued, in that possible compassion for the parents may be cited, but compassion for the infant was woefully absent. Discernment, rather viewed as judgment of sensitivity, failed for the infant, although sensitivity toward the parents could be argued. Trustworthiness and integrity were adhered to as best as possible during the time period in which the case presented.
In this syndrome, people are unable to form new memories. Researchers and clinicians working on alcoholism identified a link between these two conditions that is, Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome. The dangerous syndrome starts with the Wernicke’s encephalopathy and if proper treatment is not provided to the patient it becomes Korsakoff syndrome. The symptoms in the initial phase, that is Wernicke’s encephalopathy, appear suddenly with the most common ones being mental confusion and memory related problems. On examination, it was also found that patients having this syndrome have difficulty in moving the eyes.
Stolzer and articles are not persuasive and begin on the wrong foot by claiming that ADHD is an epidemic in this country, however, I would not go as far as saying that this is an epidemic yet. She also claims that ADHD behaviour is normal for an adolescent boy, but how can it be normal is currently is being treated widespread as a mental disorder? Surely not all of these people are wrong. Stolzer states that in 1950s ADHD were not in existence, however, research by Mark Elf Ullrich is proven, in his article attention deficit hyperactivity disorder the most studied yet most controversial diagnosis that reports of ADHD like behaviour have been dated back to as early as 1980 (Wolraich, M. L. 1999). Stolzer forgets to mention is that ADHD has been an old documents disorder that has just been coined with seemingly appropriate name.
Harlow’s hard work, along with other psychologists such as John Bowlby, has helped to spark a revolution in our approach to childcare. The brilliance that Harlow showed began at an early age. He was born in 1905 as Harry Israel to a father who was a failed inventor, and a mother who wrote a partial autobiography (Slater, 4). Growing up, he never really fit in. Even as a 10-year-old boy, he experienced bouts of depression (Slater, 5).
In your life time, there is always a person that influences your personality, the way you react to people, etc... That person could be one of your loves one, your mate, or your teacher. In this case, “Runner” is a book written by Robert Newton, where Charlie is a main character who lost his father. This loss of him affects Charlie .However, there are Squizzy Taylor and Mr Redmond come from two totally different side of the society, they had big influence on Charlie’s life. Charlie is a 15 years-old boy, just around my age. Fifteen, sixteen are the age when you can get influenced easily by others.
Rett syndrome is a genetic disease resulting in a severe disorder of the central nervous system development. The disease is named after the Austrian neurologist Adreas Rett (1924-1997), who made the first description in 1966. But it's a 1983 article that caught the attention of psychiatrists and neurologists on this serious condition, which is wrongly equated with autism. Rett Syndrome is a neurological disorder of genetic basis. It was discovered in 1966 by Dr. Andreas Rett in Vienna, Austria, described 22 girls in a German medical journal, but this publication did not receive the expected recognition and most physicians were not aware of the disease because of the relatively small circulation of this article (Adams, 15064).