Brain injury: Is an injury also known as TBI, a form of acquired brain injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. Causes: TBI can be caused by the head suddenly and violently hitting an object, or when an object pierces the skull and enters brain tissue. Symptoms: Symptoms of a TBI can be mild, moderate, or severe, depending on the extent of the damage to the brain. A person with a mild TBI may remain conscious or may experience a loss of consciousness for a few seconds
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LECTURE 10-19 OBJECTIVES Lecture 10 1. Describe the functions of the various types of muscle * Skeletal- limb movement * Cardiac- heart movements * Smooth- movements of hollow organs 2. Describe the involvement of connective tissue in a skeletal muscle * Endomysium- surrounds and fills up spaces between individual muscle fibers * Perimysium- ensheaths muscle fascicles (bundles of muscle fibers) * Epimysium- ensheaths the whole muscle 3. Name the components of
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imagine” (J.B.S Haldane). People with disabilities are perceived in a different matter. Sometimes they are pulled away from society because they are somewhat odd to what the human nature is. Nevertheless, these individuals may be terrified by the damages of developmental disorder forcing an unexpected growth and evolution. Others may see it as creative or as a special gift bringing out special powers, something unimaginable in their aspect of life. Dr. Sacks, an extraordinary neurologist
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process but does it with the least amount of side effects. Some researchers have proposed that the ventral medial prefrontal cortex plays a key component in fear conditioning (Baratta et al., 2000). Since the location of this cortex is in the frontal lobe it is involved in decision making and has also been implicated to show involvement in risk
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I. OBJECTIVES The University of Pangasinan, College of Nursing aims to produce nurses who are competent in the care of people in participation with other care providers in the prevention of disease, promotion and maintenance of health, restoration of well being and alleviation of suffering. With these in mind, we form the following objectives. General objectives: * This case study is designed for student nurses like us to become practiced, well informed and mannered in delivering holistic
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gov In recent years, there has been a surge of research into early brain development. New technologies, such as neuroimaging (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging or MRI), provide increased insight into how the brain develops and how early experiences affect that development. One area that has been receiving increasing research attention involves the effects of abuse and neglect on the developing brain, especially during infancy and early childhood. Much of this research is providing biological explanations
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immunocompromised patients with febrile encephalopathy. Quick evaluation is indicated after the diagnosis of HSE is considered. HSE occurs as 2 distinct entities: In children older than 3 months and in adults, HSE is usually limited to the temporal and frontal lobes and is caused by Herpes Simplex Virus 1. In new born babies, however, brain involvement is generalized, and the usual cause is HSV-2, which is acquired at the time of delivery. Brain imaging. Brain imaging is often the first test if symptoms and
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vitamin deficiencies. Dementia is often incorrectly referred to as "senility" or "senile dementia," which reflects the formerly widespread but incorrect belief that serious mental decline is a normal part of aging. Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. This damage interferes with the ability of brain cells to communicate with each other. When brain cells cannot communicate normally, thinking, behavior and feelings can be affected. The brain has many distinct regions, each of which is responsible
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abnormalities and relate specific manifestations of the illness to specific brain regions (Andreasen 1986). Their were specific relationships that were hypothesized and partially verified include the prefrontal cortex and negative symptoms, the temporal lobes and auditory hallucinations, and the planum temporal and thought disorder. The third phase is relatively recent and draws on traditions of cognitive psychology, models of distributed parallel processing, and the study of neural
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and left hemispheres. The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body and the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. Each hemisphere is further divided into sections called lobes. There are four lobes in each hemisphere: the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal, and each lobe is responsible for certain functions. A brain tumor is a mass of abnormal cells that is growing in or around the brain. It develops when abnormal cells multiply for unknown reasons. Benign and
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