Essays on Neurology & Nervous System Diseases

Abstract Everyday terrifying events happen around the world and each time there are witnesses, victims, and casualties. When these events happen, they may cause a long term mental imbalance to the people who witness them or those that experience them as victims. While some may...

Introduction When we think of “Psychopaths” or the term “Psychopathy”, the pictures that tend to jump into our mind are those of manipulators, terrorists, psychotic serial killers, the coldblooded murderers portrayed in horror movies or the sort of nightly creatures that crawl in the worst...

Introduction Recently as the times change, society has put more interest into the study of the human mind, our emotional and mental constitutions. This is not the case for psychopathy. For many years, professionals and public alike were horrific but appealed to the idea of...

Introduction Psychopathy refers to a mental disorder in which individuals develop amoral and unethical behaviour that typically violates societal norms, values, and beliefs. Characteristics are similar to that of an individual diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder where traits such as lack of empathy, remorse, guilt,...

Introduction Mental health has been a critical issue of discussion in regards to the use of classification systems. Classification has enabled the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders to allow creation of theories that can treat mental health patients. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

The focal point of the article online was about the unpaid caregivers of patients with Alzheimer’s. Most of these are family members of the patient, often being the spouse. There are nearly 5.7 million patients in America suffering with this disease, which also increases the...

For anyone who is familiar with rugby and other contact sports it is common knowledge that these sports are not always safe and have the potential to go incredibly wrong. It has been stated by Hosea, H (2012) “sports activities cause an estimated 20% of...

Traumatic Brain Injury also referred to as TBI is by definition a form of acquired brain injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes damage to the brain. TBI can be the result of when the head violently hits an object, or when an object is...

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease that has been brought to light in recent years regarding its long-term effects on subjects of repeated head trauma in the form of traumatic brain injuries (TBI). CTE has been made infamous due to recent publications regarding...

Introduction Traumatic brain injuries are complex in the sense that unlike physical medical conditions, they cannot be easily seen with the naked eye. Traumatic brain injuries, let’s call them ‘TBI’ for short are, common yet not often talked about in society. The problem with brain...

Trauma. There’s a word that most people do not like to talk about. For some, it is because they just simply do not want to talk about it, and for others, it is because they have experienced some type of trauma, that has impacted their...

On March 1st, 1994, a young Pattie Mallet gave birth to Justin Drew Bieber. As a young, 17-year-old mother, Pattie was already in over her head. Little did she know that baby she had just given birth to would become one of the biggest sensations...

Chiappelli, Iribarren, Neagos, and Prolo described post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a mental disorder derived from an individual experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening occurrence (2005). However, the continued study of PTSD has redefined the definition to an individual involved in any type of trauma. Back,...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is just another affliction where people who have been in disastrous events or have been sexually abuse and physically abuse cannot forget about their past events. It is known that PTSD usually happens to the people that have lived the moment...

If you look around the room or even to the person sitting right next to you, chances are you will not assume right away that they have been through or have yet to go through a traumatic event in their given lifetime. Many are not...

Introduction Epilepsy is a disease that affects the nervous system and causes the body to have seizures. Expert researchers at the Mayo Clinic (2019) tell us that it is a disease that affects the central nervous system where the activity in the brain causes a...

In this essay, I will be discussing Epilepsy as a Long Term Condition, the impact it has on my patient Mr J and the various Healthcare Professionals that enabled Mr J to gain a better understanding of his condition through shared decision making. I will...

Watching a movie is usually a fun activity for people that they do on weekends with friends, however, not everyone has the luxury of watching any movie they want. Some have to be careful because if they’re not they can have a seizure while watching....

Visual displays are bombarding us daily. On a drive down almost any road, there are billboards many of which are electronic. Computers are used in many jobs. Much of the population owns a smartphone. Televisions are blaring even in the gym. And the advent of...