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Stendhal Syndrome

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Have you heard that everybody can learn to assault with art?  It is a psychosomatic illness caused more by visual attractiveness than by inherent beauty. Psychiatric and physical disorders are referred to be psychosomatic. Stendhal syndrome is often referred to as Florence syndrome and the Art attack. It's quite unusual to everyone, right? Although we are aware of heart attacks and brain attacks, we never give the possibility of a condition like an art attack much thought. Figure 1 Stendhal Syndrome Heneri Marie Beyle, a 19th-century French novelist, explained the illness he had throughout his life whenever he went to Florence in Italy, giving Stendhal syndrome its name. In other word, severe emotional, bodily, and mental symptoms, that experience while or viewing a work of art. Figure 2 Heneri Marie Beyle with Stendhal syndrome Symptoms of Stendhal symptoms   Some of these signs and symptoms resemble panic attacks. Shortness of breath, nausea, sweating, paranoia,...

Let’s understand about Flat feet deformity

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Flat Feet is considered a condition in which the arches on the inside of the feet flatten when pressure comes on them. This condition is also known as flatfoot. When people with flatten feet stand, the feet point outward, and the whole soles of the feet fall and touch the floor. In the research, it is found out that flat feet generally develop when the arches do not develop during their development stage. However, it can also occur later in life from any kind of injury or simple wear and tear stresses of age.                                                                                             Flat feet deformity Flat Feet generally painless but in one scenario if someone is getting...

Let’s know about Alzheimer’s disease

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  Do you ever think that if we forget our routine tasks like how to eat food, how to take bath, how to talk to someone, then think how our life could become miserable. The worst part of life is when we are unable to recall our name, recent conversation, and the people whom we talk to on a regular basis. Don’t you think it is horrible? Today, we will take a gaze at such situations. Alzheimer’s is a brain disorder that gets worse with time. This disease is characterized by sudden changes in the brain that lead to deposition of certain proteins. It is considered one of the most common causes of dementia which is characterized by a gradual decline in memory, social skills, thinking and behavior. People with Alzheimer’s disease gradually lose all their past and present memories. In fact a time comes like this when these people forget their name and are unable to recognize their family members. Early signs of the disease People start to forget their recent conversations or events....

Hyperthymestic syndrome is a blessing or curse?

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  Hyperthymesia is a rare condition that is found only in a small number of people. It is characterized by a state whereas a person has deep detailed memory or autobiographical memory . In short this condition can be described as super memory and also known as a highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM). According to the study, people with hyperthymestic syndrome can recall detailed information about themselves as well as their past personal experiences. These people have the ability to retain information as either short term or long term memories. People with HSAM are like normal people but different in terms of having sharp memories. These people never use mnemonic devices like us to recall long strings of information. We can say it's god-gifted whereas a person has such ability like they can recall each and every event related to their past and present life with extreme accuracy.   Some research explained that biological, genetic or psychological problems may be c...

Is split personality a disorder?

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  Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) Hello everyone! Today I am going to describe about dissociative personality disorder . I think most people have heard about multiple personality disorder . We often use this word when we find someone doing things they wouldn’t normally do, for example reckless driving, speeding, stealing money from their friends and family.  A complex psychological condition that caused by several factors including trauma during his early childhood (i.e. repetitive physical, sexual or emotional abuse) which is known as dissociative identity disorder. In short, people with dissociative personality disorder poses two or more separate personalities. DID is also known as multiple personality disorder or split personality disorder. However, these identities control an individual’s behavior at different times which can cause gap in memory and other problems or can simplified in one word hallucination (believing something is real when it is not. It is shocking l...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO )  is a cardiopulmonary support machine. It is quite similar to the heart-lung by-pass machine that is used in open-heart surgery. It is an artificial machine, by which patients’ blood pumps and oxygenates outside the body. It allows the lung and heart to rest. When any patient's heart is not capable to pump blood outside that situation, ECMO connects to the patient that assists in blood flowing through tubing to an artificial lung in the machine. Additionally, this machine adds oxygen and takes out carbon dioxide, later on, the blood warms to body temperature and pumps back into the body. Ty pes of ECMO Do you know? there are two types of ECMO i.e. VA ECMO and W ECMO. VA ECMO connects to both vein and artery. Now the question is what is the use of it. It uses when there is a problem with both the heart and lungs. On the other hand, W ECMO is used only in the lungs. This system connects to one or more veins, usually near the heart. What i...

Have you heard about Behcet's disease?

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Have you heard about Behcet’s disease? I think No but all of you become starlet to listen that we already have seen symptoms of this type of disease but don’t know the name. Behcet’s disease is a rare disorder caused by blood vessel inflammation throughout the body, that’s why it is also known as Behcet’s syndrome. However, this disease can lead to various signs and symptoms that cannot relate at first, in this syndrome, can include mouth sores, eye inflammation, genital sores, and skin rashes and lesions. Do you know? Behcet’s disease is also known as Silk Road disease because it is a chronic inflammatory condition (long-term ) , caused by vasculitis, which affects both arteries and veins. Now the question arises that who gets Behcet’s disease It is quite a shocking factor that Behcet’s disease can see all over the world but it is highly common in Northern Turkey with up to 420 cases per 100,000 people, and in the far East about 15 cases per 100,000 people. Although, it's ...