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Dakota Declue

Learning disability - 0 views

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    Someone with a learning disability doesn't necessarily have low or high intelligence. It just means the child must be taught a bit different to work around this disability. There are two main types of learning disability's auditory processing or visual processing. This mean some kids have to see or hear something in order for them to learn it.
Nicholas Scholz

Epilepsy - NIH - 0 views

  • The epilepsies are a spectrum of brain disorders ranging from severe, life-threatening and disabling, to ones that are much more benign
  • seizures can be controlled with modern medicines and surgical techniques
  • Epilepsy may develop because of an abnormality in brain wiring, an imbalance of nerve signaling chemicals called neurotransmitters
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  • Only when a person has had two or more seizures is he or she considered to have epilepsy
  • For about 70 percent of those diagnosed with epilepsy,
  • normal pattern of neuronal activity becomes disturbed, causing strange sensations, emotions, and behavior
  • Issues may also arise as a result of the stigma attached to having epilepsy
  • the risk of seizures restricts their independence (some states refuse drivers licenses to people with epilepsy) and recreational activities.
  • Ongoing research is focused on developing new model systems that can be used to more quickly screen potential new treatments
  • Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a flexible brain implant that could one day be used to treat seizures
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    Epilepsy is a neurological disorder associated with sudden seizures. In diagnosing epilepsy, the patient must have displayed two unexpected seizures. Epilepsy can be life - threatening and disabling or benign. Typical symptoms associated with epilepsy are strange sensations, emotions, and behavior. The cause of epilepsy is uncertain, but abnormal brain wiring may have an effect. With no cure for epilepsy, modern day medications and surgeries are used to treat patients. Due to the stigma associated with epilepsy, some children develop behavioral and emotional issues. The restriction of independence, like being denied a drivers license due to seizures, is also emotionally challenging for these patients. Current research being conducted for patients with epilepsy include the development of new models used to determine treatments, and brain implants which control seizures. 
Melissa Menghini

Vaccination Statistics - 0 views

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    Although popularized by the media as "healthy," vaccinations bring more harm to the human body then they do health. Multiple studies have found that those children injected with vaccinations actually caught more disease than those not vaccinated. Vaccinations are not guaranteed to work, and can actually cause severe complications. Few vaccinations have been successful; these effective immunizations protect against one disease, but increase risk of other viruses. Vaccines contain harmful ingredients that can cause cancers and leukemia, and are even linked to AIDS. Vaccines are also connected to brain damage, lowered IQ, ADD, learning disabilities, and autism. Vaccinations are composed of harmful ingredients, are illogically produced, and cause more diseases than they prevent.
Nicholas Scholz

Multiple Sclerosis - 0 views

  • Multiple sclerosis (or MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system (CNS)
  • MS is a disease that involves an immune system attack against the central nervous system (brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves)
  • Although MS is thought by some scientists to be an autoimmine disease, others disagree strongly because the specific target of the immune attack in MS has not yet been identified. For this reason, MS is referred to as an immune-mediated disease.
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  • As part of the immune attack on the central nervous system, myelin (the fatty substance that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers in the central nervous system) is damaged, as well as the nerve fibers themselves
  • The damaged myelin forms scar tissue (sclerosis
  • Relapsing-Remitting MS
  • People with this type of MS experience clearly defined attacks of worsening neurologic function. These attacks—which are called relapses, flare-ups, or exacerbations —are followed by partial or complete recovery periods (remissions
  • Primary-Progressive MS
  • This disease course is characterized by slowly worsening neurologic function from the beginning—with no distinct relapses or remissions
  • Secondary-Progressive MS
  • Following an initial period of relapsing-remitting MS, many people develop a secondary-progressive disease course in which the disease worsens more steadily, with or without occasional flare-ups, minor recoveries (remissions), or plateaus
  • Progressive-Relapsing MS
  • In this relatively rare course of MS (5%), people experience steadily worsening disease from the beginning, but with clear attacks of worsening neurologic function along the way
  • but the disease continues to progress without remissions.
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    Multiple sclerosis has been associated with attacks against the central nervous system. The immune system has been identified to targeting organs such as the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. It is known as an immune - mediated disease because there is no specific target that has been identified. The attacks by the immune system often damage myelin and create scarred tissue (sclerosis). Patients with multiple sclerosis could experience one of four courses identified with the disease. One course is the Relapsing-Remitting MS. In this course the patient experiences a severe attack on the CNS followed by remissions. The second course is known as the Primary-Progressive MS. In this course the central nervous system slowly deteriorates without any relapses or remissions. Another course of MS is the Secondary-Progressive MS. This form of MS generally follows the relapsing-remitting form of MS and progressively worsens the CNS with or without remissions and plateaus. The most rare form of MS is perhaps the Progressive-Relapsing MS. In this course of MS, patients generally experience a progressive worsening of neurological function, without any remissions.  
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