Jessica Herbert Professor Joseph Medical Anthropology June 25, 2014 Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis is a debilitating and mysterious disease that affects people from all walks of life. Affecting more than 2.9 million people worldwide, it is one of the most common diseases of the nervous system. The number of people afflicted by it is ever growing. It has no cure, and no proven cause. Doctors can only speculate what causes it and why it affects everyone differently.
(Weinstein, B. E. (2003). Sensorineural hearing loss is the hearing loss experienced by older adults that result from atrophic changes within the sensory and neural systems. This is associated with a loss of ability to hear sound and speech clearly. In addition to this there are other factors that can aide in hearing loss associated with age, these include: exposure to loud noises, genetic factors, trauma, vascular disease, infections and ingestion of agents that have an ototoxic effect such as dieuritcs or chemotherapy drugs. Untreated hearing loss can have significant consequences.
Hormonal (oestrogen and progesterone) imbalances are known to be involved in some menstruation-related depression, although the precise involvement is not known. Some people appear to become more depressed and lethargic and have trouble sleeping during winter months. This pattern can indicate a mood disorder called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). One suggestion is
Dementia Awareness Unit 237 Dementia is a condition which is the gradual loss of brain function, this also makes it degenerative. It can include symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, problems with speech and understanding. Dementia at the moment has no cure, as it has a number of diseases that coincide with it. Alzheimer’s is part of dementia. Functions that are affected by dementia are; Short term Memory loss, Language skills, the ability to interpret information, spatial skills, judgement and attention.
Indeed, drinking lowers your body’s core temperature slightly, followed by a rise. In controlled studies with EEG monitoring, researchers have found the REM rebound can occur in the second half of the night. At low doses alcohol has GABA agonist properties – just like most insomnia medications do. The mechanism by which alcohol suppresses REM sleep is not clear. It does not seem to interact with the neurotransmitter adenosine, which known to be important in REM.
After birth cystic fibrosis cannot be developed nor can it be contagious. People with cystic fibrosis have a variety of symptoms. Some cases are severe, while others are mild. It is not curable, but it is treatable. Scientist and doctors believe that there are more than one thousand ways the cf gene can mutate and the various mutations could cause the different symptoms.
Most people who suffer with it are over 65 but there are 150,000 people under 65 who also suffer with it. There are 55 types of dementia however 10 of these are the most progressive, 3 of which are the most common and severe. There is currently no cure. Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common case of dementia affecting around 465,000 people in the UK. It is a physical condition affecting the brain.
Cerebral Vascular Accident in Nursing Cerebral Vascular Accident in Nursing Pathophysiology Stroke ranks third, after cancer and heart disease, on the national mortality table of most developed countries (Collins, 2007).There is more than 100 potential causes of strokes, making it the greatest cause of disability (Collins, 2007). Strokes are also the leading cause of brain injuries in adults. Warning signs of an impending stroke include; Weakness, numbness, or tingling in the face or arms or one side of the body, difficulty speaking or understanding words, trouble with vision, severe headache with nausea and vomiting. If these symptoms strike you call 911 for help immediately (New sucess in preventing and treating strokes, 2009). A stroke can be hemorrhagic, ischemic, or embolic in origin.
Sometimes the light and smells could have an effect on this disorder but the reasons why are still not known. This has started a series of chemical changes that irritate the pain sensing nerves around the head and causing the blood vessels to expand and leak chemicals which further irritate the nerves (1996-2012). It is stated that migraine runs throughout the families due to their genes. The number one trigger is hormonal changes. Two-thirds of women sufferers only get their headaches around the time of their period.
Pathologically, there is diffuse atrophy of the cerebral cortex with secondary enlargement of the ventricular system. Microscopically, there are neuritic plaques containing A amyloid (slide 72) and neurofibrillary tangles (slide 73) in neuronal cytoplasm. In the early stages of the disease, the memory loss may go unrecognized or be ascribed to benign forgetfulness. Once the memory loss begins to affect day-to-day activity or falls below 1.5 standard deviations from normal on standardized memory tasks, the disease is defined as mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Slowly the cognitive problems begin to interfere with daily activities, such as keeping track of finances, following instructions on the job, driving, shopping, and housekeeping (slides 74-77).