The Sphingolipidoses are a group of Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs), which individually are considered rare diseases; however, their collective incidence is approximately 1 in 5000-9000 live births. This number is dependent on the location and population, with some regions presenting a much higher proportion of cases than others. These diseases consequently together comprise a vast proportion of the healthcare system and therefore there is a need to investigate novel treatments as well as more
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Week 2 Reading summaries Paul Rozin, “Food is Fundamental, Fun , Frightening and Far Reaching” (1999) * Food is a foundational system that has evolved to deal with problems of food selection and is the source of many general behaviors and mental adaptations. * Food is one of the most critical components of our lives due to our consistent need of it. * We
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Definition of adolescence and adolescent depression 2 2. Adolescent depressive symptoms 4 3. Problems with diagnosis of depression in adolescents 4 4. Gender factors that may play a role in assessing depression 6 5. Contextual factors that may play a role in assessing depression 8 6. Suicide 9 ‘Like anyone else, I have always had times when I felt deeply depressed, but this was something
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The date was November 14, 2011. The patient was OG, a twenty-four year old male Hispanic. He immigrated to the United States when he was 5 years old from Guatemala, with his mother and he is a legal American citizen. He was brought to Aurora Behavioral healthcare on a 5150 by ex-wife and her parents due to suicidal ideation with a plan to overdose on his medications. He complained of worsening depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. He felt hopeless and had suicidal ideation prior to admission. The
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Alzheimer’s Disease Michael A. Smith HCS/245 May 26, 2014 Dr. Michelle Clemons Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer is a stage of dementia which ability of the brain appears to stop functioning, such as creating memory loss, judgment instability, lack emotions with reasoning and changes in behavior. This is found more common in the elderly population of people. Studies shows apparently some people over sixty-five develops forms of dementia with the increase in later years after eighty-five
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“Given the negative impact of stress at intrapersonal and somatic level, it is important for healthcare professionals to master a repertoire of stress management techniques” (Varvogli, 2011, p. 75). Yoga Yoga is an old Indian practice that fosters mental and physical awareness creating a mind-body connection that allows one to engage in conscious breathing coupled with physical postures. Yoga is a meditative practice that allows one to overcome the perceived limitations of oneself (Choudhury, 2007;
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years. When fear of the dark reaches a degree that is severe enough to be considered pathological, it is sometimes called achluophobia. Some researchers, beginning with Sigmund Freud, consider the fear of dark as a manifestation of separation anxiety disorder. An alternate theory was posited in the 1960s, when scientists conducted experiments in a search for molecules responsible for memory. In one experiment, rats, normally nocturnal animals, were conditioned to fear the dark and a substance called scotophobin
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paper you will see a comparison and contrast to Freud, Jung, and alder, and many studies that each one learned and thought. Simund Freud was born in Austria in 1856. Freud was dedicating to the learning and teaching of research and personality disorders. Freud added sex as a source of stress and conflicts. Simund Freud also had two key concepts, psychic determinism and unconscious motivation. Freud studied in Vienna. Simund Freud also believed that personality had three structures that consist of
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2006 Abstract It has been alleged by some academics that excessive Internet use can be pathological and addictive. This paper reviews what is known from the empirical literature on FInternet addiction_ and its derivatives (e.g., Internet Addiction Disorder, Pathological Internet Use, etc.) and assesses to what extent it exists. Empirical research into FInternet addiction_ can roughly be divided into five areas: (1) survey studies that compare excessive Internet users with non-excessive users, (2) survey
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Introduction Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) is a marked impairment in the development of motor coordination, which is unrelated to any general medical condition or mental retardation [8]. The DSM-IV defines four diagnostic criteria that comprise DCD; with the first being “Performance in daily activities that require motor coordination is substantially below that expected given the person's chronological age and measured intelligence”[29]. Research has found that children with DCD experience
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