COMMUNICATION DISORDER
A mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities
Examples of anxiety disorders include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Symptoms include stress that’s out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness.
Treatment includes counseling or medications, including antidepressants.
Age Onset: Children or following strokes or brain injuries.
Symptoms: Not based on perception difficulties such as blindness or deafness; affecting understanding or production of speech.
Progression: Performance significantly lower than expectations for that age of child or adult.
Causes: Developmental in children; stroke or brain damage in adults may cause “aphasia,” the inability to understand or express language.
Therapies: Mostly by speech and language therapists.
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Healthcare providers' perceptions of infant physical activity and communicationby Priyanka Chaudhary on July 26, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: HPs had limited knowledge about PA guidelines and communication measurement tools. Efforts are needed to identify easily accessible ways to educate HPs that could be disseminated to parents.
- Do Palatoplasty Procedures Resolve Hypernasality as Effectively as Pharyngoplasty Procedures in Patients with 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome?by Jessica L Williams on July 26, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: In patients with 22q, palatoplasty procedures may be less effective than pharyngoplasty procedures at resolving hypernasality. This may be due to underlying anatomic or physiologic differences, such as increased pharyngeal depth and hypodynamic muscles.
- Differential Contributions of Fibroblast Subpopulations to Intercellular Communication in Eosinophilic Esophagitisby Tao Li on July 26, 2024
Fibroblast heterogeneity remains undefined in eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), an allergic inflammatory disorder complicated by fibrosis. We utilized publicly available single-cell RNA sequencing data (GSE201153) of EoE esophageal biopsies to identify fibroblast sub-populations, related transcriptomes, disease status-specific pathways and cell-cell interactions. IL13-treated fibroblast cultures were used to model active disease. At least 2 fibroblast populations were identified, F_A and F_B....
- Feasibility of whole-body MRI for cancer screening in children and young people with ataxia telangiectasia: A mixed methods cross-sectional studyby Renata Neves on July 26, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study shows that WB-MRI for cancer screening is feasible and well-accepted by children and young people with A-T and their families.