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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- What are the training and support needs for homelessness hostel staff supporting older residents with memory and cognitive problems? A qualitative studyby Luna Zalc on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: The present study highlights how hostel staff could benefit from targeted training in emotional support, person-centred approaches for older hostel residents with memory and cognitive problems, and collaboration with external services. Overall, the current study contributes to understanding of the need for tailored training and support methods within hostels to provide higher quality support to a population that is frequently overlooked.
- Feasibility, acceptability, and perceived benefits of a creative arts intervention for elementary school children living with speech, language and communication disordersby T Léger-Goodes on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSION: This innovative project suggests that art-based interventions can potentially benefit students' emotional expression, but further experimental studies are needed to substantiate these effects.
- Neurological impact of HIV/AIDS and substance use alters brain function and structureby James Haorah on January 22, 2025
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has successfully controlled AIDS, but HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders (HANDs) remain prevalent among people with HIV. HIV infection is often associated with substance use, which promotes HIV transmission and viral replication and exacerbates HANDs even in the era of cART. Thus, the comorbid effects of substance use exacerbate the...
- Bridging brain and blood: a prospective view on neuroimaging-exosome correlations in HIV-associated neurocognitive disordersby Haixia Luo on January 22, 2025
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND) is a complex neurological complication resulting from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, affecting about 50% of individuals with HIV and significantly diminishing their quality of life. HAND includes a variety of cognitive, motor, and behavioral disorders, severely impacting patients' quality of life and social functioning. Although combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has greatly improved the prognosis for HIV patients, the incidence...