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Physical Therapy Physical Therapists
792 wordsThe physical therapists of today do much more than restore function to traumatized limbs. They work with children to overcome crippling birth defects and with stroke victims to restore movement and independent living. For post-operative patients, they are the link in the health care team that speeds successful recovery Physical therapists prevent and treat athletic injuries, teach special exercises and body mechanics to ease low back pain and plan treatment programs to reduce pain and improve mo...
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York Basic Books Addison Wesley
1,348 words... w York: Basic Books. 1985 Gardner, H. : Multiple intelligences: The theory of practice. New York: Basic Books. 1993 Gardner, H. : Problem solving in the arts. J of Ash Educ. 1971 5: 93 - 114. Gardner, H. , and Winner, E. : Artistry and aphasia. In: acquired aphasia. Sarno, M. e. New York: Academic Press. 1981 361 - 384. Gates, A. I. , and Taylor, G. A. : The acquisition of motor control in writing by pre-school children. Teach Col Rec. (19230 24: 459 - 469. Gazzaniga, M. S. , and LeDoux, J. ...
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Central Nervous System Peripheral Nervous System
1,382 wordsThe ability to regenerate the tissues of the human central nervous system (CNS) is one of the greatest projects undertaken by biomedical engineers today. With this eventual technology, permanent paralysis and blindness due to CNS injury will be a thing of the past. Central nervous system injuries will be repairable, an idea that was, until recently, just a fanciful dream, something out of a science fiction novel. In the last few years, however, giant strides have been made to make the idea of CN...
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Tourette Syndrome Obsessive Compulsive
1,795 words... y, these rages occur in TS children who appear well-adjusted individuals. The etiology of the apparently high rates of anxiety, depression, and other emotional difficulties found in individuals with TS remains unexplained. These are likely the products of the interplay between biological vulnerabilities and experiential factors. Frequently, children and adolescents with TS are teased by their peers. They are often regarded as less likeable and more withdrawn than are their classmates. If a c...
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Mind And Body Cartesian Dualism
2,324 words... for reasons I gave earlier and is based on Descartes's definition of mind as having no language of its own: it is that which does not pertain to matter. For Descartes mind is the realm of free will, the sphere of soul, of the Church. There were a lot of philosophical and theological - i. e. cultural - reasons in the seventeenth century why it was defined in that way. In Individuals P. F. Strawson shows, I think utterly persuasively, that you can think about minds only in a language which con...
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Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Mad Cow Disease
1,270 wordsFatal Familial Insomnia Fatal familial insomnia is a genetic disorder. It manifests itself by many symptoms due to the degeneration of a certain part of the brain, the thalamus. The disease also results in the formation of amyloid plaques. This is the build up of a waxy substance made of proteins associated with polysaccharides. The disease is a result of a mutation of a normal protein that is associated with brain tissue. This is the prion protein. In the case of fatal familial insomnia, the mu...
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Temporal Lobes Frontal Lobe
1,121 wordsBackground Huntingtons Huntingtons Disease Huntington's Disease Background Huntington's disease is inherited as an autosomal dominant disease that gives rise to progressive, elective (localized) neural cell death associated with choleric movements (uncontrollable movements of the arms, legs, and face) and dementia. It is one of the more common inherited brain disorders. About 25, 000 Americans have it and another 60, 000 or so will carry the defective gene and will develop the disorder as they a...
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Os I Dont Os I Loved Obs
1,570 wordsThe medicine man Obs: What made you write Uncle Tungsten? OS: The immediate provocation was having a chemist-friend send me a parcel which contained a little bar of tungsten. When that fell out, the image of my uncle and his wing collar and his tungsten-blackened hands came to me. Obs: Was it difficult to write about your experiences at school? OS: The boarding school to which I was evacuated was very unpleasant and very traumatic. When I came back I had a violent need to find stability and orde...
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