Primary diagnosis: statutory blindness. Secondary diagnosis: none established. The claimant was an 18-year-old man. Alleged disability: vision issues that cannot be corrected/blindness, and epilepsy. The claimant’s mother stated that he had a seizure disorder; he had “really bad headaches,” body aches, and slept after each episode of convulsions. He had visual issues from birth. He had some difficulty with his personal hygiene and activities of daily living, and needed help organizing his medications. He was unable to handle money; he had difficulty counting change, but was able to see numbers on checkbooks. He wore special eyeglasses to see large print. He reported that he had difficulty walking, climbing, reaching, following …show more content…
The primary diagnosis was statutory blindness. The secondary diagnosis was none established. Per medical records (2015), the claimant had a history of developmental delay, limited vision, and a seizure disorder. He could see, but was unable to focus. He had atrophy of the optic nerve (optic chiasm) and involuntary eye movements (bilateral nystagmus). His mother reported that the seizures were worsening; he had “a cluster of 3 seizures this week.” Per ophthalmological consultative examination (CE) (10/19/2015), the claimant’s medical history and diagnoses were as above. He appeared “somewhat depressed from his condition.” His visual acuity bilaterally was 20/200 (normal vision is 20/20). He was at a high risk for glaucoma. The claimant met disability listing 2.02 (Loss of central visual acuity). 20/20 vision is a term used to express normal visual acuity (the clarity or sharpness of vision) measured at a distance of 20 feet. If you have 20/20 vision, you can see clearly at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. If you have 20/100 vision, it means that you must be as close as 20 feet to see what a person with normal vision can see at 100
The checkup was unnervingly inconclusive, and from a physical standpoint, Cahalan appeared to be the picture of health. She was sent on her way with anti-seizure medication and a self-help book. In the long run, neither of these “fixers” would prove useful.
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Later, the superintendent reported that the staff diagnosis was Mental Deficiency, Mild to Moderate, with Psychotic Episodes associated with Convulsive Disorder.
5) Use of an Eye-Operated Eyegaze Communication System in Locked-In Syndrome, by: James E. Chapman, M.D.
Duane Syndrome is an inherited unusual type of strabismus (squint) most often described by the incapability of the eye(s) to move inwards, outwards individually or together. This was first reported via ophthalmologists Jakob Stilling in 1887 and also Siegmund Türk in 1896. The syndrome was named after Alexander Duane, who explained the disorder more specifically in 1905. The syndrome is described as a miswiring of the eye muscles, causing eye muscles to tighten when they don’t need to and other eye muscles not to tighten when they need to. Very often patients get the syndrome by the age of 10 and it is more common in females (60% of the cases) than males (40% of the cases). Although the eye is usually the abnormality associated with Duane Syndrome, there are other bodily functions that can be affected. Duane syndrome cannot be cured, because the cranial nerve is missing and it cannot be replaced. The gene known as “SALL4” has been associated as a cause of this condition.
She wrote, “His case was extreme. Not until the coroner's report, 3 months after his death, would I learn that it was diffuse LBD that took him. All 4 of the doctors I met with afterwards and who had reviewed his records indicated his was one of the worst pathologies they had seen. He had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout the entire brain and brainstem.” She tells us that his fear and anxiety had skyrocketed and later discovered it is an early indication of LBD. “Robin had been under his doctors' care. He had been struggling with symptoms that seemed unrelated: constipation, urinary difficulty, heartburn, sleeplessness and insomnia, and a poor sense of smell—and lots of stress. He also had a slight tremor in his left hand that would come and go.” (Schneider-Williams)
The odds were against Sherman Alexie on that day in October 1966. Not only was he born a minority, but he was also hydrocephalic. At the age of 6 months, he had a brain operation, but was not expected to live. Though he pulled through, doctors predicted he would be severely mentally retarded. Fortunately, they were wrong, but he did suffer through seizures and wet his bed throughout his childhood ("What" 1).
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Cognitive psychologists investigate processes using case studies of brain-damaged patients, these are then analysed to build models that represent normal cognitive processes. This essay will examine the contribution case studies have made to the development of cognitive neuropsychology as a discipline in its own right and draw attention to issues surrounding the use of brain damaged patients to infer cognitive functions and processes. At the same time, it will evaluate the contribution that case studies have made to our understanding of cognitive processes.
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The claimant has had unsatisfactory work relationships. He gets irritated easily and is irritated by other people talking and when they say too much. He does not like when they give him too much direction. He has had unsatisfactory interpersonal relationships. His brother is bipolar. He is divorced and had conflict in his marriage. Mental illness impacts his relationships because he becomes argumentative. The claimant is impaired in interpersonal functioning.
Aravind Eye Care System is known to be one of the worlds largest provider of eye care services, they see thousands of patients a day and perform almost 1,000 surgeries between four and five out reach camps. “Inaugurated in 1976, Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai has grown to accommodate 330 paying patients and 920 free patients. It serves a population of 26.7 million” (System, 2015). Examine thousands of patients, as well as provide transportation. The eye hospital provides free services to those that are poor or in need, the founder Dr. Venkataswamy wanted to create an inexpensive yet standardized process to treat those that were suffering from eye issues in India. His goal was to address the high prevalence of blindness and India and seek ways to prevent it. The eye hospital offers a range of services where patients can get glasses, to treatments, to optical oncology (Rosenberg, 2013). Most of the surgeries that are performed at the hospital are to treat cataracts. One of the most important aspects of the hospItal is to provide services to people at affordable costs, and with statistics claiming that there are over 30 million people who are suffering from blindness in the world, thus this made the founder so have a vision to bring eye care to thousands of people not only in India, but all over the world.
Central Nervous System: He doesn’t have any parasthesia and no experienced of unconscious or fits. He doesn’t have any weakness of limbs and no hearing problems as well as visual disturbance.
Macular degeneration also known as late, aged-related maculopathy is an eye disorder which causes a decrease in the visual field known as the retinal macula (Medical Encyclopedia, 2000). The majority of people who are affected are people over the age of 65, but occasionally it develops earlier in people 40-50 years old (Philippi, 2000). The majority of the visual loss is located in the central part of the visual field, while the peripheral vision is unharmed. There are also two types of macular degeneration, the "wet" and "dry" forms. The "dry" form of this disease is the most popular, affecting 90% of the cases (American Academy of Ophthalmology, 1997).
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