Strange Behavior, by Harold Klawans, is told through the first person perspective of Klawans himself about the medical mysteries he has encountered throughout his career. He is a neurologist, who mainly specializes in Parkinson’s disease. The first part of the book illuminates some of the case studies he has conducted in great detail. One incident Klawans describes, Defending the Cavewoman, is about a young child, Lacey, who had been locked in a closet for presumably most (if not all) of her life--approximately six years. Having been concealed from the realms of society for such a long time, she had not yet acquired language when she was found. Her case is compared to others with aphasia as well- including Genie and Victor, who each experience …show more content…
One of these symptoms must include either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure. This is further explored in the book as Klawans attempts to diagnose a girl, Marilou, with unusual symptoms. The child’s mother believes she has depression because she had stopped talking, seemed as if she had no concern for her surroundings, and paid little attention to her family or peers. It was later discovered by Klawans that she did not have depression, however, she had abnormal electrical charges in her left temporal lobe which inhibited her speech output and left her temporarily deaf. These symptoms, as shown, can be easily mistaken as depression, partially because it is such a commonly diagnosed disease. The autonomic nervous system is the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and muscles of the internal organs. It typically operates on the unconscious level, automatically. Klawans explains to a man who came to him with the inability to read how the autonomic system works. The man, who had urinary issues and woke up several times in the night to use the bathroom, was awakened by his autonomic nervous system. As the bladder is controlled by the ANS, it promptly alerted him in his sleep to wake up and go to the
19.The autonomic nervous system division of the PNS consists of nerves which control all of the involuntarymuscles, organs, glands, and sensory pathway nerves.
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.
The Peripheral nervous system is made up of the Somatic and the Autonomic nervous systems.
In my interview, Michelle described Lisa’s features of Aphasia that were similar to existing studies done on stroke victims that also suffer from aphasia. Symptoms of her language disorder were more prominent during the first year after her stroke, but through intensive therapies she has benefited in her communication abilities. Michelle explains that right after the stroke, her daughter suffered from a period of not speaking at all. She experienced mild paralyzation in the right side of her body and had great difficulties swallowing. After a few weeks, her swallowing ability recovered on its own, and she started speaking again but could not put together a whole sentence. Lisa admits the struggle to find her words was the most frustrating part,
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
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
The peripheral nervous system (PNS) is connected directly to the central nervous system, and consists of neurons and nerves that send information back and forth the CNS. Furthermore, the peripheral nervous system can be divided into two sections, the sensory nervous system and the motor nervous system. The Sensory The sensory nervous system is in charge of transmitting data from a variety of internal organs or from external stimuli to the central nervous system using sensory nervous cells. On the other hand, the cells of the motor nervous system (motor neurons), take the impulse from the CNS to effectors, which include glands and muscles. In addition, the motor nervous system can be further divided into the somatic nervous system, controls voluntary actions of the skeletal muscle and external sensory organs, whilst the autonomic nervous system operates