Microcephaly Essays

  • Zika Virus Informative Speech

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    triggered by Zika in a small amount of infections. The CDC is investigating the link between zika and GBS. c. The greatest concern with zika is Microcephaly. 1. Microcephaly is a birth defect where a baby’s head is smaller than that of a normal sized infants head. The severity can range from minimal to severally smaller. Because babies with microcephaly often have smaller brains that aren’t developed

  • Zika Virus Analysis

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    The implications stemming from the Zika virus has a major impact on not only the health of many but the economy as well. The overall projected cost of the Zika virus worldwide is 3.5 billion dollars. Some of the costly short term implications stemming from the virus involve “direct outlays, lost productivity, and the impact of avoidance” (Zagorsky, 2016). While attempting to battle the virus, outlay cost are being incurred. The demand for doctors, nurses, research, and drugs to combat the diseases

  • Zika Virus Disease

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    an experiment that was held on subjects about yellow fever. Zika virus cases have been reported in many countries. However, it is mainly found in the tropical regions. The wide-spread of Zika virus was accompanied by dangerous syndromes such as microcephaly, and Guillain-Barre. The symptoms of Zika virus are considered to be mild, yet uncomfortably harmful. There is no vaccine for Zika virus, but there are precautions one must take

  • Wolf Hirschhorn Syndrome Case Study

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    A 3 month old boy presents to with a history of reoccurring seizures. A physical examination shows that he is underweight. The appearance and head measurements show that he has growth deficiency and microcephaly. He shows characteristics of facial dimorphism a “Greek helmet” like face, his eyes are widely spaced with high arched eyebrows and micrognathia and club foot. The mother explains that she has been trouble feeding him. An infant cognitive test was performed and the results showed low

  • The Zika Virus

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    those admitted to the hospital, the infected will seldom die from the Zika virus. However, the Zika virus has a serious chance of negatively affecting a baby if it’s mother has contracted the Zika virus during the pregnancy. “The effects include microcephaly and various other major birth defects such as eye defects, hearing loss and impaired growth” (“Transmission & Risks”) as well. Another problem with the Zika virus is that once somebody is infected, the virus will be in the body for up to 6 months

  • Zika Virus Research Paper

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    certain types of mosquitoes live. The main problem with Zika is its effect on unborn babies. In pregnant women, the virus can cause miscarriage, stillborn babies, or babies with birth defects. One serious birth defect caused by Zika is microcephaly. In microcephaly

  • Reflection Paper On Occupational Therapy

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    impact on my learning experience. These two learning events, which are prominent events within my first year of studying OT, include the OT June exam and making a chair in APT (Appropriate Paper-based Technology) for a child with Cerebal Paulsy and Microcephaly. To look into these two significant learning events in more detail, one must understand the theory behind occupational therapy, and in order to do this, a few terms and concepts need to be defined and discussed. According to the American Occupational

  • Jesus Discipleshiple

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    The story from the gospel of John, in which Jesus tells his disciples to cast their fishing nets off the right side of the boat; illustrates the moral dilemma that we are currently facing today, albeit not the way Christians would perceive. In this story, Jesus' disciples were unsure of what to do after his crucifixion and some of them had decided to go fishing one day. As Jesus' resurrection was unbeknownst to them, the disciples did not recognize Jesus was standing on the shore when he asked

  • Zika Destroying America Summary

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    have Zika signs include: headache, fever, rash and mild flu-like symptoms. The main reason for all the worry that is expounded is if the virus lodges in the brain of a fetus it would be disastrous. It causes babies to have small heads also called microcephaly that hinders learning ability. Not to mention stem cells are put to risk as a new study shows. Stem cells are often called blank slate cell since it can rise to other types of cells in the body that are needed. The big concern is if Zika attacks

  • Occupational Therapy Reflection Paper

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    and is very beneficial for people with disabilities as it can be fitted well to an individual and can be tailored for each person. For our task, we had to make a chair which would be used for an individual child who suffers from Cerebal Palsy and Microcephaly in order for him to be able to sit up and provide support fitted to his body. This will aide his mother in feeding him, and to allow the child access to resources previously not accessible to him. This chair allowed us to make our first object

  • Schizencephaly Research Paper

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    Schizencephaly is the second most rare brain cortical malformation. It belongs to the group of malformations of the central nervous system. Schizencaphaly is a developmental disorder characterized by abnormal slits or clefs in the cerebral hemispheres of the brain. Individuals with clefts in both hemispheres or bilateral clefts are often developmentally delayed and have delayed speech and language skills. Individuals with smaller unilateral clefts, clefts in one hemisphere, may be weak on one side

  • Shain Pit Mythology

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    Shain Pit (2062-2083) was the leader of an organization called TRNTB (The right not to breed) a self-proclaimed pragmatist whose obfuscated speeches aimed at the physically unprivileged; people with such inflictions as congenital melanocytic nevus, microcephaly, non-bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma, dwarfism and lionitis, were the minority that were susceptible to this fast-food-for-thought nourishment, from the crazy rambling of an embittered Mary. His ideology was that their short comings

  • Angelman Syndrome Research Paper

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    A Rare Disorder called Angelman Syndrome This research paper will discuss a specific disability called Angelman Syndrome. (AS) This Syndrome is a disorder, and can be diagnosed at an early age. AS don’t have a cure, but there are ways to treat this disorder. While reading this paper, you will become aware of the causes, characteristics, diagnoses, assessments and academics of Angelman Syndrome. By the end of the paper you will be able to understand how this disorder affects children and educators

  • Homo Floresiensis

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    The most popular suggestion for a medical affliction seems to be a severe growth disorder, which can lead to disorders such as Microcephaly, resulting in reduced body size (Scarre, 2013). Upon discovery at the excavation site, the describers proposed a new name for LB1, Sundanthropus Floresianus (Aiello, 2010). Reviewers of the original descriptions noted that the cranium was clearly

  • My Leadership Philosophy

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    Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished. I found this ability within myself at a very young age. Growing up I was constantly surrounded by leaders, people who had no fear in taking the first step in the right direction. My mother was a leader when she got diagnosed with Breast Cancer, and beat it a year later. My Father was a leader when he started his own successful marketing business in the small

  • Maria Popova The Backfire Effect Analysis

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    Summary Maria Popova’s article The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds, expresses that people h ave a hard time changing their minds. It is proven that is hard to change one's minds especially from within oneself, provided with scientific fact, and even winning an internet argument. Changing one’s mind show complications within oneself, because a person tends to be comfortable with their mindset. Popova mentions Carl Sagans’s book Baloney Detection Kit

  • Comparing Zika Virus And The Crucible By Arthur Miller

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    yours, Danforth!”(Miller 227). John proctor is suspected of working for the devil, and at this point in the story he gives up and lies, to end people being accused of witchcraft. The article, Zika virus, states, “More than 2,400 suspected cases of microcephaly have been reported this year in Brazilian states, compared with 147 cases last year.”(Botelho 7). Figuratively speaking this shows how the virus can dramatically increase in one year. As one can see, they are connected because they both show that

  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum Research Paper

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    symptoms to show up is in the eye. About 80% of patients have eye abnormalities (6). The symptoms are inflammation of the cornea, clouding of the lens, and excessive tearing.finally is the Neurological symptoms that affect roughly 30% of the patients. Microcephaly, for example, caused by mutation of many different genes in the brain causing smaller head (5). Spasticity is another sign that caused by damaging some sites of the brain or spinal cord

  • Carbamazepine Case Study

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    Carbamazepine is the first anticonvulsant to show an effect in the treatment of mania in bipolar disorder (Stahl 2000). It was first discovered when patients with “epileptic personalities” showed an increase in their “psychic tempo”(Gualtrieri 2002), which included improvement in attention, concentration and preservation. It was discovered to be useful in the treatment of bipolar disorder in the 1970’s (Chen and Lin 2012). Carbamazepine is a tricyclic compound with a steric structure (Gualtrieri

  • Cri-Du-Chat Syndrome

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    Cri-Du-Chat implies "Cry of the cat" in French. It gets its name from its most trademark highlight in infants were they contain a to a great degree specific deafening, weak, mewing cat like cry in the midst of right on time stages brought on by a sporadic change of the larynx that is regularly characteristic for the issue. This issue has various names to it as the Chromosome 5p-issue, Deletion 5p-issue, 5p short issue, Cat cry issue, and Monosomy 5p however most usually known as the Cri-Du-Chat Syndrome