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Twenty Four Hours Upper Class Women
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Genetic Disorder Heart Muscle
1,543 wordsProgeria is one of the least known genetic disorders. There are two types of Progeria, the only difference being the age group that it affects. The Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome is commonly called Childhood Progeria. The second type of Progeria is Werner's Syndrome, which is the adult form of Progeria. What basically happens in this disorder is that age is accelerated seven times faster than that of a normal person. For example, for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome, a child could look...
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Child With Down Syndrome Children With Down Syndrome
1,270 words... them, maybe deformed. There may also be a whole between the two lower chambers. This condition is called Ventricular Septal defect. There are less common defects, involving a whole between the two upper chambers, problems with the heart valves, and the major artie's attach to the heart. Most children with down syndrome have the same quality of sight as other children and develop the same control of their eyes, but because eye sight can affect other facets of development, it is especially imp...
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Battered Women Syndrome A Survey Of Contemporary Theories
1,882 wordsIn 1991, Governor William Weld modified parole regulations and permitted women to seek commutation if they could present evidence indicating they suffered from battered women's syndrome. A short while later, the Governor, citing spousal abuse as his impetus, released seven women convicted of killing their husbands, and the Great and General Court of Massachusetts enacted Mass. Gen. L. ch. 233 23 E (1993), which permits the introduction of evidence of abuse in criminal trials. These decisive acts...
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692 wordsTourette's Syndrome is a disorder in motor skills, movements, and behavior. It is caused by a genetic disturbance that affects the central nervous system. There is a chemical imbalance in the brain. It is just one of many movement or tic disorders. It was discovered by Gilles de la Tourette's, which is where the name comes from. When a person has tourette's syndrome, their muscles twitch and they uncontrollably shout out noises or in some cases, obscene words. They just come out. It is found mor...
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Extra Chromosome Genetic Material
1,960 wordsIn 1942, Dr. Harry Klinefelter and his coworkers at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston published a report about nine men who had enlarged breasts, sparse facial and body hair, small testes, and an inability to produce sperm. By the late 1950 s, researchers discovered that men with Klinefelter syndrome, as this group of symptoms came to be called, had an extra sex chromosome, XXY instead of the usual male arrangement, XY. In the early 1970 s, researchers around the world sought to ident...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2,697 wordsFetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a set of physical and mental birth defects that can result when a woman drinks alcohol during her pregnancy. When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, such as beer, wine, or mixed drinks, so does her baby. Alcohol passes through the placenta right into the developing baby. The baby may suffer lifelong damage as a result. FAS is characterized by brain damage, facial deformities, and growth deficits. Heart, liver, and kidney defects also are common, as well as vision an...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prenatal Alcohol Exposure
2,654 words... s affected by prenatal alcohol exposure. The last number from South Africa is from recent work done by Phil May and colleagues. References England G, Perham-Hester KA, Gessner BD, Ingle D, Berner JE, Middaugh JP. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Alaska, 1977 through 1992: An administrative prevalence derived from multiple data sources. American Journal of Public Health. 1998. 88 (5): 781 - 786. Aberdeen IHS Area (1995) MMWR. vol 44 (#): 253 - 261. BDMP (1995): MMWR Vol. 44 (13): 249 - 253. Atlanta,...
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Mental Disorder Developmental Psychology
3,059 wordsAutism Autism: Definition Autism is often explored as the chain of abnormalities in development of an individual. The system responsible for perception of external stimuli is damaged so seriously that a child is not able to establish the emotional contact with other people. A child who suffers from autism experiences permanent problems in a process of communication an social development. Psychologists often notice so-called escape from reality with fixation on inner world of affective complexes ...
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Developing Vascular Tree Present At Birth Syndrome
960 wordsThere Polands Syndrome POLANDS SYNDROME There is a rare and perplexing congenital condition known today as Poland's Syndrome. This extremely unusual disorder that is present at birth falls very near and dear to my heart. I will explain in later paragraphs. An anatomy student by the name of Alfred Poland made the first documented observation in 1841 at Guys Hospital in London. Alfred Poland discovered this extraordinary and unexplored abnormality while dissecting the cadaver of a convict that was...
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People With Down Syndrome Children With Down Syndrome
490 wordsDown syndrome is one of the most frequently occurring birth defects in the world. It is a chromosomal abnormality which results in 47 chromosomes, instead of 46, with an extra chromosome being 21. Because the majority of Down syndrome cases affect the twenty-first chromosome, it is commonly called trisomy 21. Down syndrome is usually caused by a cell division error, which is known as non-disjunction. This occurs when an embryo develops with three number 21 chromosomes instead of two. This excess...
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People With Down Syndrome Chromosome 21
666 wordsDown Syndrome Down Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder. It occurs in about 1 of every 800 births. People with Down syndrome may have mild to severe learning disabilities. Physical symptoms include a small skull, extra folds of skin under the eyes, and a protruding tongue. People with Down syndrome are subject to a variety of medical problems including heart abnormalities and thyroid gland dysfunction. Survival rates have been increased dramatically in recent years as problems specific to Down syn...
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Syndrome Down Syndrome Risk Is 1 Age
390 wordsDown Down Syndrome Down Syndrome Down Syndrome is caused by a trisomy of the 21 st chromosome, which means that there are three of chromosome 21 instead of 2. Symptoms of the disorder include: mental retardation, abnormal creases in the palm, a flat face, sparse and strait hair and short stature. People with Down syndrome are also at a high risk for cardiac anomalies, leukemia, cataracts and digestive blockage. Fifty percent of babies with the syndrome die before age one. Down syndrome can be de...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Low Birth Weight
2,039 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is an increasing problem in our world today. At least 5, 000 infants are born each year with FAS, or about one out of every 750 live births, which is an alarming number. In the United States there has been a significant increase in the rate of infants born with FAS form 1 per 10, 000 births in 1979 to 6. 7 per 10, 000 in 1993 (Chang, Wilkins-Haug, Berman, Goetz 1). In a report, Substance Abuse and the American Woman, sent out by the Center on Addicti...
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Digestive Tract Bowel Movements
3,093 wordsIRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME Suffering in Silence Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), is a common disorder of the intestines that affects nearly one out of five people in the United States. According to the book, Irritable Bowel Syndrome &# 038; the Mind-Body-Brain-Gut Connection by William B. Salt II, IBS is the most common functional gastrointestinal disorder. The symptoms include constipation, diarrhea or alternating bouts of both, bloating, abdominal pain and many other problems. Symptoms of irritab...
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Gulf War Syndrome U S Troops
2,148 wordsIs the Gulf War Syndrome Real? On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. The United States government acted very quickly. Ships were dispatched to the Persian Gulf, and oil prices shot up as and oil embargo was placed against Iraq. The U. S. government told us that Saddam Hussein was poised to invade the neighboring countries, including Saudi Arabia, and the worlds oil supply was threatened. George Bush launched operation Desert Shield in which a coalition of many nations armies gathered in the de...
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Children With Down Syndrome People With Down Syndrome
1,014 wordsDown syndrome affects many people in this world. Not only does it affect the person diagnosed as Downs, but it also affects their family and everyone around them. There are physical characteristics that help you identify somebody with Downs. There are also some health concerns that you need to worry about. In this essay I will give you a clearer understanding of what Downs syndrome is, and what it means to have Downs. Down syndrome can be caused for three different reasons. The most prevalent re...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
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Child Custody Dispute Resolution
5,735 wordsPerspectives On Parental Alienation, Child Custody And Perspectives On Parental Alienation, Child Custody And Dispute Resolution Systems Perspectives on Parental Alienation, Child Custody and Dispute Resolution Systems Contested child custody provides many challenges for alternate dispute resolution. With no-fault divorce, and a standard for determining custody in light of the childs best interest, judges are besieged with a backlog of disputed custody cases without clear and concrete guidelines...
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Left Brain Left Hemisphere
1,240 wordsSavant Syndrome is a rare, but spectacular, condition in which persons with various developmental disabilities, including Autistic Disorder, have astonishing islands of ability or brilliance that stand in stark, markedly incongruous contrast to the over-all handicap. In some, savant skills are remarkable simply in contrast to the handicap (talented savants). In others, with a much rarer form of the condition, the ability or brilliance is not only spectacular in contrast to the handicap, but woul...
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