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Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare autosomal dominant inherited progressive neurological disorder characterised by damage neuron cells. Although genes responsible for HD can be found in every individual, but only expanded HD will cause disease. HD occurs due to the presence of HTT gene mutation...
Gene
Huntington’S Disease
Mental Illness
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Diseases caused by dynamic mutations involve an unstable responsible mutation. Such disorders are characterized by an uncontrolled expansion of a portion of DNA within the diseased gene consisting of repeated units of three or more tandem nucleotides. Generally, there are polymorphic alleles in the genes...
DNA
Gene
Huntington’S Disease
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People with Huntington’s Disease (HD) are unable to control their movements, lose thinking ability and have emotional problems. HD is a genetic disease caused by mutations in the Huntingtin Gene. DNA segments in the Huntingtin Gene are repeated abnormally higher in people with HD. There...
DNA
Genetic Engineering
Huntington’S Disease
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The World Health Organization defines Huntington’s disease (HD) or Huntington’s chorea as a progressive neurodegenerative disorder of autosomal dominant transmission. It is also known as ‘San Vito’s disease’. It owes its name to Dr. George Summer Huntington, a New York doctor who first described it...
Gene
Huntington’S Disease
Memory Diseases
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Films have always been a powerful medium to express ideas, evoke emotions, and start conversations. They are an integral part of our culture, helping to construct our views. It has been suggested that their widespread accessibility in today’s world through streaming services makes films have...
Movie Review
Psychological Disorders
Psychopaths
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Abstract Parkinson’s disease is a life-threatening condition in which dopamine and acetylcholine are imbalanced in the body. This condition has many exacerbated sequela’s including but not limited to Acute Akinetic Crisis. It is estimated that approximately seven to 10 million individuals currently have the disease...
Parkinson’S Disease
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People usually say that terrorists have a healthy mentality and just do it for enjoyment, but most of them actually have factors that lead to them committing those crimes. Many people relate active-shooters and terrorists with the mental illness of psychopathy, and there is much...
Mental Illness
Psychological Disorders
Psychopaths
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Social skills are any competence, rules, and abilities that helps conduct interactions with others. Many people generally pick up on social cues over time and how one is supposed to react in certain situations. For people with autism it is generally hard for them to...
Autism
Children With Disabilities
Students With Disabilities
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Neural plasticity is the way in which the brain learns new behaviors and changes behaviorally and cognitively based on experience or pathology. There are 10 experience-dependent principles of neural plasticity that need to be understood in order for recovery of both the damaged and intact...
Neuroplasticity
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Abstract and Acknowledgements In this project, a literature review of studies on Parkinson’s disease worldwide has been included. The aforementioned studies are about the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, gene expression, and alternative methods. Introduction Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that caused the loss of...
Parkinson’S Disease
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Introduction There are approximately 57 million people around the world who have been admitted to the hospital due to traumatic brain injury. Some people either die or become disabled due to this injury, for example, 30,000 people died in India. People who have the highest...
Neuroplasticity
Traumatic Brain Injury
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Introduction Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s disease, was originally described in 1817 by James Parkinson in the classic ‘‘Essay on the Shaking Palsy’’. Idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (PD) still has a lot to be uncovered. Rapidly aging populations, with increasing...
Parkinson’S Disease
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Introduction Music is one of the things we find in life that transcends time, space, culture or background, and even language. It is an art that evokes emotion and communication very different from the regular, more popular means of communication, language. There are several studies...
Music Therapy
Neuroplasticity
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Introduction Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the progressive cell death of dopaminergic neurons and the cytoplasmic aggregation of the protein alpha-synuclein. Gut microbiota has been found to play an important role in the pathology, influencing both the accumulation of Alpha Syn...
Parkinson’S Disease
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Introduction The purpose of this report is to thoroughly inform the reader about the significant history of Parkinson’s disease, an explanation as to what Parkinson’s is, symptoms that can be attributed to Parkinson’s, treatments to Parkinson’s, and finally interesting facts about Parkinson’s and the mark...
Parkinson’S Disease
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A night shift is an irregular working hours mainly scheduled for work at night. In Philippines, a hospital night shift is typically starts at 10 pm to 7 am, or 9 pm to 6 am for 8-hour shifts, and 6 am to 6 pm for...
Night
Nurse
Sleep Deprivation
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Dissociative amnesia is characterized by forgetting an event with a high negative charge. There are traumatic experiences that can mark us for life. These can change many aspects of our lives and relationships. Intense suffering produces a strong impact, and in order to protect our...
Amnesia
Memory Diseases
Trauma
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Abstract With the advances in neuroscience, the ancient insight into music cognition has been evolving and gaining popularity, as the myriad benefits of music therapy start to manifest itself in various physical and psychiatric disorders. The evident change in perception with music therapy, is due...
Music Therapy
Neuroplasticity
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Neuroplasticity is affected by dopamine is various ways. Daily human activities required the brain to use both motor and cognitive functions. Importantly, neural plasticity plays an essential role in motor and cognitive learning. Neuroplasticity is the cortical remapping of the brain. Fundamentally the brain has...
Neuroplasticity