Learning disability
Learning disabilities are due to genetic and/or neurobiological factors that alter brain functioning in a manner which affects one or more cognitive processes related to learning. These processing problems can interfere with learning basic skills such as reading, writing and/or math.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W114
Diagnosis: Learning Disability-Learning Disorder
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Age Onset:
Brain Area: brain operates more slowly; heredity and genetics, family poverty
Symptoms: Differing ability to speak, liten, read, write, spell, reason, organize information and do math. Usually average or higher intelligence.
Progression:
Causes: Low expectations by parents, teachers or others may stigmatize and worsen the problems. Self-esteem may be built aside of school.
Medications:
Therapies: Schools are challenged by the mental difficulties many children go through. This is even more-prevalent with second-languages.
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- Psychosocial adjustment in adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A pilot study on a shortened parent-report questionnaireby Pien M M Weerkamp on January 24, 2022
The primary aim of this study was to describe the psychometric properties of an adult revision of the 28 item Personal Adjustment and Role Skills Scale (PARS-III). This scale was originally developed to assess psychosocial adjustment in children 4-18 years of age and has been applied in boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and was found to be reliable and valid. Within the context of a longer lifespan in dystrophinopathies there is a growing need to assess psychosocial adjustment in an...
- Minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: Technical tips, learning curve, short-term clinical outcome, and brief reviewby Reddy Ramanadha Kanala on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSION: MITLIF could be done in failed back surgery cases, spondylodiscitis, and deformity corrections in addition to spondylolisthesis. It has advantages of less injury to soft tissues, maintaining the posterior tension band, decrease in blood loss and hospital stays, and early mobilization. However, it has longer learning curve and takes minimum 20 cases for the surgeon to acquire reasonable experience and confidence.
- Outcomes From a Novel Graduate Medical Education Leadership Program in Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusionby Carmin Powell on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: LEAD is an innovative, feasible GME-wide model to improve resident and fellow self-efficacy and behaviors in DEI scholarship and leadership.
- The Role of Cyclooxygenase 2 in the Cognitive Impairment Induced by Alcohol or Stress in Ratsby Ali Hosseini-Sharifabad on January 24, 2022
CONCLUSION: We found that either alcohol or restraint stress impairs memory in rats. In MWM, celecoxib improved the alcohol-induced memory impairment but could not show a reduction in memory deterioration due to restraint stress. In ORT, celecoxib reversed memory impairment due to both alcohol and restraint stress.