Before mental illness can be defined the concept of illness needs to be understood more completely. As medicine has become increasingly driven by technological advances, the concept of disease has upplanted the concept of...
Read MoreThe New York Times printed an essay, “Is There Meaning to a Brain Tumor?” written by a 40-year-old woman named Sharon who was told that she had a large tumor behind her left eye. The tumor was surgically removed in a six-hour...
Read MoreMany patients cannot consciously remember the trauma(s) that they have suffered. This disconnection between events and memory can apply to an overwhelming trauma experienced in childhood that they could reconstruct only by...
Read MoreEvery organ in the human body is made up of a mixture of cells that cooperate to support the functions of that organ. For example, the heart contains cardiac muscle cells that enable it to pump and nerve cells that transmit...
Read MoreRett syndrome is a disorder of the nervous system that has some of the same characteristics as autism. Both diseases strike at an early age, and a loss of language and social interaction are common in both. Like autism,...
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