Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Parody on the stupidity of Indian Movies---Why Newton Committed Suicide

Why Newton Committed Suicide

Once, Newton came to India and watched a few Tamil movies that had his head spinning. He was convinced that all his logic and
laws in physics were just a huge pile of junk and apologized for everything he had done.

In the movie of Rajanikanth, Newton was confused to such an extent that he went paranoid. Here are a few scenes

1) Rajanikanth has a Brain Tumor which, according to the doctors can't be cured and his death is imminent. In one of the
fights, our great Rajanikanth is shot in the head. To everybody's surprise, the bullet passes through his ears taking away the tumor along
with it and he is cured! Long Live Rajanikanth!

2) In another movie, Rajanikanth is confronted with 3 gangsters. Rajanikanth has a gun but unfortunately only one bullet and a knife.

Guess, what he does?

He throws the knife at the middle gangster? & shoots the bullet towards the knife. The knife cuts the bullet into 2 pieces, which kills both the gangsters on each side of the middle gangster & the knife kills the middle one.

3) Rajanikanth is chased by a gangster. Rajanikanth has a revolver but no bullets in it. Guess, what he does. Nah? not even in your remotest imaginations.

He waits for the gangster to shoot. As soon as the gangster shoots, Rajanikanth opens the bullet compartment of his revolver and catches the bullet. Then, he closes the bullet compartment and fires his gun.
Bang... the gangster dies...

This was too much for our Newton to take! He was completely shaken and decided to go back. But he happened to see another movie for one last time, and thought that at least one movie would follow his theory of physics. The whole movie goes fine and Newton is happy that all in the world hasn't changed. Oops, not so fast!

The 'climax' finally arrives.
Rajanikanth gets to know that the villain is on the other side of a very high wall. So high that Rajanikanth can't jump even if he tries like one of those superman techniques that our heroes
normally use.
Rajanikanth has to desperately kill the villain
because it's the climax.

(Newton is smiling since it is virtually
impossible)

Rajanikanth suddenly pulls two guns from his pockets. He throws one gun in the air and when the gun has reached above the height of the wall, he uses the second gun and shoots at the trigger of the first gun in air.

The first gun fires off and the villain is dead.

Newton commits suicide..

Difference between ADHD and Mania in Children(Source)

The incidence of ADHD in children who are later diagnosed in adulthood with bipolar disorder (BD) is indeed quite high. Compounding this situation is the high rate of co-occurrence of these 2 disorders. In some series, 93% of children with diagnosed BD have comorbid ADHD, whereas 59% of adolescents with adolescent-onset mania have ADHD. The association becomes less pronounced in adults with diagnosed mania, of whom only 10% have comorbid ADHD.

Symptoms common to both, especially in younger children, include hyperactivity, inattention, irritability, and rage, with the severity of these symptoms being more intense in children with BD. Overall impairment is more profound in individuals with both disorders, although environmental accommodations, including the provision of structure, help less to alleviate symptoms in BD than those ascribed to ADHD.

There are several other clinical distinctions that I use in my practice to differentiate ADHD from BD. A strong family history of bipolar disorder is highly supportive of that diagnosis in a particular child. Children with BD are often "mean" and hurtful in their style of social interaction, something not typically seen in ADHD. Children with bipolar disorder can be sexualized to a worrying extent, without any history of sexual abuse. Comments and actions might make adults in their environment feel uncomfortable. Grandiose statements regarding their strengths and abilities might also be a tip-off to BD.

Although in young children the diagnosis relies heavily on clinical impression, supportive mania scales are also available and may be used to guide the diagnosis. These include the Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), the parent version of the YMRS, and the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).

(Source)

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Lewy Body Dementia

Fluctuating cognition with pronounced variation in attention and alertness is essential for a probable diagnosis of LBD

Fluctuating cognition with pronounced variation in attention and alertness is essential for a probable diagnosis of LBD

Spontaneous motor features of parkinsonism are essential for a diagnosis of probable LBD

Features supportive of the diagnosis are:

Repeated falls

Syncope

Transient loss of consciousness

Neuroleptic sensitivity

Systematized delusion

Hallucinations in other modalities

Key points

LBD is characterized by distinct cognitive impairment with fluctuating confusion, disturbance of consciousness, visual hallucinations, delusion, falls and significant parkinsonism

The hallmark feature is the presence of widespread Lewy bodies throughout the neo and archi cortex with the presence of Lewy body and cell loss in the subcortical nuclei

In studies comparing both Diffuse Lewy Body disease and Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type they exhibit impaired performance across the range of tasks designed to assess semantic memory. Whereas patients with DAT showed equivalent comprehension of written words and picture stimuli, patients with DLB demonstrated more severe semantic deficits for pictures than words. As in previous studies, patients with DLB but not those with DAT were found to have impaired visuoperceptual functioning. Letter and category fluency were equally reduced for the patients with DLB whereas performance on letter fluency was significantly better in the DAT group. Recognition memory for faces and words was impaired in both groups.
Semantic impairment is not limited to patients with DAT. Patients with DLB exhibit particular problems when required to access meaning from pictures that is most likely to arise from a combination of semantic and visuoperceptual impairments.

The dementia associated with Lewy body disease affects:

  • memory
  • language
  • the ability to judge distances
  • the ability to carry out simple actions
  • the ability to reason.

People with this form of dementia suffer hallucinations for example seeing a person or pet on a bed or a chair when nothing is there.

They may suffer from falls for no apparent reason, because their ability to judge distances and make movements and actions accurately is disrupted.

They may develop some Parkinson type symptoms such as slowness of movement, stiffness and tremor. In a few cases heart rate and blood pressure are affected. The abilities of the affected person often fluctuate from hour to hour, and over weeks and months. This sometimes causes carers to think that the person is putting on their confusion.

ORTHOREXIA NERVOSA

Orthorexia Nervosa

People want to eat healthy, but people also have a strong tendency to become obsessive about the things they do. As a consequence, some people who seek healthy diets also become obsessive about those diets - and that means that they take something that should be healthy so far and to such extremes that it becomes very, very unhealthy.