Even more alarming, is that traumatic brain injury occurs more frequently than breast cancer, HIV/AIDS infections, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injuries combined (Dawodu, 2011). People from all walks of life can suffer a traumatic brain injury; however it is more commonly found
Case Study 12 1. The myasthenia gravis has affected his voice and has affected his ability to use his skeletal muscles correctly and these muscles are important in speech. 2. They have trouble holding their heads up because the muscles acetylcholine receptors are not working and this is because the myasthenia gravis and their ability to contract is reduced. 3.
If the trait is completely recessive, it has to be inherited from both parents in order to be passed down to the offspring. The BRCA1 mutation seems to be a little more dangerous since it has a greater number of patients and it has taken more lives. It has 89 patients compared to 35 by the BRCA2 mutation and it has taken 16 lives compared to 1 life by the BRCA2 mutation. The BRCA1 mutation has a higher percentage of women who have died than the BRCA2 mutation, 18% from the BRCA1 and 2.8% from the BRCA2 mutation. There are ways to remove cancer from the body, like getting a mastectomy or an oophorectomy.
This will also increase the amount of people that are retired from 12 percent of the United States population to almost 20 percent. With the rise of the aging population there is a need for more professional health and social service expertise. According to the Institute of Medicine’s landmark report, the is a shortage of health care professionals to care for the aging population in the current time and this number will grow faster as the Baby Boomers retire. One of the fastest growing employment sectors would be the eldercare. .
It is encouraging, though, to realize the immense about of research going into this area because it does affect a high percentage of our population. According to a news report from wcvb.com, the frequencies of anxiety disorders are larger in women developing this disorder as opposed to men. In fact, women are twice as likely to progress to this state as opposed to men. This news report demonstrates the affect that this condition has on even the simplest behaviors in a
Controversy of Cochlear Implants in America Today Hearing is a complex sense and affects a child’s cognitive, linguistic, and social characteristics. However, we having 28 million Americans that have hearing impairments. Most lose their hearing due to aging, ear infections, sickness, and genetic abnormalities. Today we have scientific advancements which has lead to the invention of what is called a “cochlear implant”(Chaikof 1) .Cochlear implants are used as a "cure" to sensor - neural hearing loss by bypassing the outer ear through electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve. In extreme hearing loss, mostly cause from genetic abnormalities, there are not enough functioning hair cells in the cochlea to stimulate the ear from externally received speech information.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the military and divorce rates with Generation X who served during wartime have increased immensely over the past ten years. The change that has brought this to the attention of Department Of Defense is the fact that many soldiers are suffering from this and reported divorce rate increases with active duty personal. Doing research on this in the past for my own when I was experiencing issues I learned a lot about the human mind and what it is capable of dealing with. Granted each individual is different in how much stress they can take and to what extent. Generation X is different from our parents in the respect that GEN X are more open with their feelings and their emotions.
Heavy media usage is considered to be more than 16 hours of media consumption a day. Not only is it proven that technology has changed the way we think, it has also damaged our ability to focus and concentrate. The proof can be found in the grades of minority children. It is reported that half of heavy media user report fair to poor grades and light media users (less than three hours of media per day) report higher grades. Another question to consider is how well children can function on less than eight hours of sleep.
With some things; the more you know, the better off you are. Throughout this speech I hope to enlighten you on the symptoms and statistics, treatments, and new discoveries of this condition. According to Oxford’s Dictionary, multiple sclerosis is defined as a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Multiple sclerosis is very common, as it affects 350,000-400,000 people in the United States with women being diagnosed about twice as frequently as men. There is no telling exactly how many people have this, because as I stated previously, many people go without knowing for quite some time, or never at all.
Community corrections programs regarding drug offenders have seen explosive growth over the past ten years. Alternatives to incarceration programs designed for drug addicted individuals have be implemented in direct response to dramatic increases in drug arrests and convictions. Drug addiction is a treatable medical disease. Rehabilitation of the drug offender is cost effective and aims to reduce