Preface The Importance of Reading about Fibromyalgia and Neurological Disorders A neurological disease is a condition that impacts the brain, spine, and nervous system. There are more than six hundred diseases that fall into this group, including fibromyalgia (FM). It is important to be aware of how these diseases can impact daily life. Diseases such as FM cause significant changes in health. Education is one of the most powerful tools available. The importance of reading about health and neurological
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The Alzheimer’s disease is a diseased named after Alois Alzheimer, who ironically died of the disease, and the disease is a senile Dementia. A simply definition of the word would be memory loss. Alzheimer’s is incurable, unstoppable, inevitable, degenerative, and a terminal disease. It is most common in people over the age of sixty-five, but there are rare occasions where it can occur in younger ages. The effect of this disease is still unknown today. Alzheimer’s bears a great burden on not only
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Wilson Hasty The Effect of Nyquil on Daphnia Pulex Water Fleas Research Questions What kind of food does the subject typically eat? Will the subject’s behavior change from the dosage? Will reproduction be affected either negatively or positively? What is the best possible environment for the subjects to live in? How often do they reproduce? Hypothesis If the Daphnia Pulex water fleas consume Nyquil then it will dull the flea's senses over time, and will slowly cause adverse effects, as to
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certain vitamins or seizure reducing drug, or even surgery. When someone has had two or more seizures that have not been from a previous medical, they are usually diagnosed with epilepsy. A seizure is a disturbance in the electrical activity of the brain (Shafer). The significant change of either too little or too much electrical activity is what causes
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manage symptoms by dieting, consuming medications, and performing rehabilitation. About 400,000 Americans and 2.5 million people worldwide have Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis is a disease that affects the central nervous system which causes the brain to receive messages harder than a to the rest of your body. The development for treatments for Multiple Sclerosis and its causes are starting to produce into logics and facts. I have seen what Multiple Sclerosis can do to someone, it ruins their
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Neurofibromatosis (NF) is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder that affects the nerve system in which symptoms are skin anomalies and tumors at any part of the human body (can be small or big ones); this disease can affect any of the two sexes (Torpy, Burke and Glass 2009). This is one of the most common genetic disorders, but it is mainly known just for the symptoms, not for the scientific cause, because people are not aware about the fact that this illness is caused by a genetic alteration. There
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My heart was beating loudly in my chest as I hurried down the stairs. The winding stairs made travel harder as I used one hand to gather my dress that was trailing on the floor. The other hand I kept on the gray, wet stone and tried to make sure I didn't trip. Something was wrong. I could taste it in the bitter taste in my mouth and feel it with all my heart. I shook my head to clear the thoughts that began to pollute it, I just had to get down the damn stairs. I cursed as I literally tripped and
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In Nancy Mairs’ “On Being a Cripple” she lends us to the extensive view of the life of a person living with MS, and the day to day basis on how her life has changed. According the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is the most common disabling neurological disease of young adults. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory disease that affects myelin , a substance that makes up the membrane (called the myelin sheath) that wraps around nerve fibers
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Music can help a brain develop better. Music was first originated around the Medieval Era. Most of the tune at that time was made for the church. The Renaissance Era came around about in the year of 1400. The people living in that era invented musical instruments like the lute and the tenor recorder. By the middle of the 15th century, composers and singers had evolved the music into different type of genres like ballad, pop or rock. Now a days, instead of using instrument to make songs, there are
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organs, except for the brain. He concluded that the brain had a lower affinity to the dye compared to the others organs (1). In 1913, Edwin Goldmann, a student of Ehrlich, did the opposite and injected the very same dyes directly to the cerebrospinal fluid of animals’ brain. He found that, in this case, the dyes readily stained the brain and not the other organs (2). These experiments clearly demonstrated the existence of a kind of separation between the blood and the brain. However, in 1898, Max
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