Strange Behavior Chapter Summary

Other factors that affected her speech regression, was that she was locked in a room, the same room every day, so she didn’t see anything else, to stimulate her brain function. Researchers were never able to determine fully, whether Genie had suffered from pre-existing cognitive deficits or not. When Genie was an infant, a paediatrician had identified her as having some type of mental delay. Researchers were therefore, left to wonder whether she had suffered from cognitive deficits, caused by being born with some degree of mental retardation, or if it was caused by years of

and having carefully analyzed the text, I am leaning towards a diagnosis of, major depressive disorder. The observed symptoms, which the protagonist seems to line up with the following symptoms listed in for Major depressive disorder in the DSM-5 checklist provided in the book (Comer, 2014). In the short story, the protagonist has mentioned and expressed with her actions feeling: in a depressed mood for most of the day, Daily diminished interest or pleasure in almost all activates for most of the day, Decrease in daily appetite, experiencing hypersomnia, daily fatigue or loss of energy (Comer, 2014). These things mentioned are symptoms that are categorized as being

Sananda Kundu Fiction: Graded Assignment Honors English September 8, 2014 Maria Padian: Out of Nowhere 1. When I first started reading Out of Nowhere, I was rather bored with it because it seemed like just another high school sports book, but after exploring the first few chapters, it turned out to be so much more. A sports books with some more meaning to it - you don’t see that every day. The book starts at a heated soccer game and ends at the celebration of the team's win, but if you spend a couple hours really putting yourself into the book, you will discover that it's not only about soccer, but will have to opportunity to indulge yourself in information about Somali refugees, leadership, religion, and doing the right thing; I know I did.

Depression is a mood disorder causing a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. The tenacious feeling of unhappiness or loss of interest that characterizes major depression can lead to emotional and physical conditions.symptoms of depression include concentrate on tasks or inability to sleep. Change in energy level,appetite, and thoughts of suicide are also seen in depression. Throughout the book, Caroline Kettlewell shows all signs of depression as she tells her story to survival. The book is an autobiography of Caroline as a young girl, Caroline Kettlewell lived with a family of four.

Dysautonomia is a word used to describe any malfunction or failure of the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is responsible for controlling bodily functions not consciously controlled. The ANS controls functions such as heart rate, digestion, respiration, homeostasis, pupil dilation, and much more. The ANS is broken down into two branches: the Sympathetic Nervous System and the Parasympathetic Nervous System, which are responsible for our body’s fight or flight response.

The inference of the narrators condition is that she has, ‘nervous depression’, a term mainly given to

The first communication system is the Nervous System (NS), which includes the Central Nervous System (CNS) and the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS). The CNS is comprised of the brain, spinal chords and nerves, and the PNS is comprised of sensory neurons, ganglia (clusters of nerves) and nerves that connect to one another and to the CNS. Sensory neurons act as receptors, and respond to physical stimuli such as light and sound, and send feedback to the CNS regarding the body’s surrounding environment which leads to, as previously mentioned, motor neurons in the CNS, or even in the ganglia of the PNS, transmitting the signals to the muscles and glands. This is how the receptors interact with the effectors via the CNS. In the PNS, there is a sub-system called the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), which regulates glands, smooth muscle, heart rate etc, under subconscious control. The ANS has two ‘divisions’: the sympathetic division, which speeds up functions and can be asscociated with ‘emergency reactions’ to unfamiliar or extreme events, and the parasympathetic division, which slows down functions and is associated with automatic responses to day to day life. These two divisions of the ANS are essential to homeostais in that they allow for subconscious responses in relation to external stimuli. The ANS also bases its

Some of the character’s symptoms were Emotionally, Sadness, Hopelessness, Helplessness, Worthlessness ,Feel emotionally disconnect from others,

Autonomic nervous system help the body remain in a homeostasis state with the help of sympathetic, parasympathetic,

Not all processes in the body are voluntarily controlled and it is quite important to display automatic involuntarily controlled movements. The autonomic nervous system (ANS) controls the smooth muscles of internal organs allowing them to execute vital functions such as breathing and regulating the heartbeat in an organized and automatic fashion (Pastorino and Doyle-Portillo, 2017, pg. 59). The ANS and its complex neural network maintain homeostasis, and it can be further divided into two categories: the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system.

Felicia, a 41-year-old wife and mother, shows signs of Major Depressive Disorder with severe anxious distress, mood-congruent, and catatonia features. Most of the time, Felicia is overpowered by emptiness, sadness and despair. These feelings caused a change in her previous functioning resulting in emotional, physical and social complications. As depression progresses, the individual becomes more socially withdrawn. She reveals that she spends countless hours alone, avoids her children and occasionally sees her friend. The guilt of not saving her mother, troubles Felicia, causing her to battle with insomnia. Not only does she struggles with falling asleep, Felicia has a difficult time staying asleep. She reports that dealing with the guilt of her mother’s death has her on the bathroom floor, shivering to avoid disturbing her husband. Felicia is observed picking at sores on her arms, which is another symptom of MDD. This motion is known as psychomotor agitation and is also a sign of anxiety. Felicia’s thoughts and actions are slow, a result of psychomotor retardation. She struggles handling certain responsibilities. Her husband hired a housekeeper because Felicia can no longer take care of her family on a regular basis. She states that

19.The autonomic nervous system division of the PNS consists of nerves which control all of the involuntarymuscles, organs, glands, and sensory pathway nerves.

The organs of our body are controlled by many systems in order to function correctly and efficiently in order to survive within the environment we live in. These include the heart, stomach and intestines and other vital organs and body systems. All of the systems in our body are regulated by a part of the nervous system called the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The ANS is part of the peripheral nervous system and it controls many organs and muscles within the body. Rather bizarrely we are unable to determine or feel its presence in our bodies as it is working involuntary, as a reflexive manner. A common example of this involuntary action is best understood when

The autonomic system targets cardiac and smooth muscle as well as glandular tissue. A visceral reflex is an autonomic reflex in the efferent branch. The output of visceral reflex starts with the preganglionic fiber emerging from a lateral horn neuron in the spinal cord or in a cranial nucleus neuron in the brain stem to a ganglion followed by a postganglionic fiber projecting to a target effector. Autonomic reflexes are integrated into the brain and brain stem primarily in the hypothalamus, thalamus, and brain stem. These regions contain centers that coordinate body functions needed to maintain homeostasis; for example, the heart, breathing, maintenance of body temperature, and blood pressure. The brainstem contains the integrating centers

Mrs. Bond is a 46 years-old secretary, who has recently complained about loss of appetite and low mood over the previous months. She also claims to be moody, loss of interest in work and pleasure in daily activities. She also complains about the inability to sleep, and admits to have thought of suicide. Due to these stressful feeling, she is unable to function at work. Based on these characteristics, we can diagnose that Mrs. Bond has the symptoms of Depression. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV, depression is stated as a serious illness which involves a state of deep sadness and loss of interest or pleasure (American Psychiatric Association, 2002). People once in a while will