Medical Report
Down Syndrome
Down syndrome is a condition which depends on a person's genes. It is usually reflected in a person's physical image and is manifested in the sphere of his/her mental development (prompting delay in this very development).
It's important to mention that down syndrome can be tracked down in a baby even before its birth. One of the devices that help doing it is ultrasound, others are chronic villus sampling and amniocentesis.
When a baby is just born detecting down syndrome is also possible. It's usually done by examining its physical characteristics. Physical characteristics that indicate at down syndrome in a just-born baby are its snubbed nose, flattened out face, unusual form of ears, short neck, arms and legs.
It is considered in the society that down syndrome is a rare disorder, however, statistics and medical data turn our heads in an opposite direction of thinking. Another misconception regarding down syndrome is that the risk of having a baby born with it is higher when parents are older. But statistics say that around one hundred per cent of kids with down syndrome are born to women who hasn't yet even crossed their age marker of thirty-something.
Irrespective of some false opinions, people with down syndrome are possible to educate; some of them are employed and able to socialize. The general stable opinion is that people who suffer from down syndrome are incurable. Scientists are hopeful in this sphere, and backing their hope up with facts and reasonable conclusions they state that very soon down syndrome may become fully curable.
Mental News
When a person has a personality disorder, this usually signifies the fact that his/her mental development once went in the wrong direction and continues doing so if compared with people with more stable (positive) personality traits.
Main types of anxiety disorders are phobias, separation anxiety, panic attacks etc. As for phobias, they deal with certain object or process or substance – anything that you strongestly avoid approaching or dealing with. Separation anxiety is characterized by someone’s excessive fear of parting with one’s home or someone he/she is very (physically) close to.
Colleagues at work talk bad things about me. I see them gather in groups and whisper some rubbish about my ‘shaky’ mental condition. And then Rachel, sales manager, approaches you and looks as if she wants to kill you. ‘You are on my death list’ she tells you using her lips only – for others to think she approached you to discuss issues connected with your common project.
Our website will tell you everything about mental/emotional disorders, their causes and symptoms. Being well-educated on the issue is fine mental abnormalities prevention.