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BIO 240 Online Clinical Cases Assignment -

CLINICAL CASE 1 - A nineteen years old female is involved in a car accident while texting on her cell phone. Her major symptoms are blurred vision and ringing in her ears.

1. What these symptoms indicate?

2. Where do you think the lesion is located and what is the mechanism of the damage?

3. These symptoms indicate trauma in what parts of the brain?

4. What are the functions of the lobes involved?

5. The clinical course and prognosis depend on which criteria?

CLINICAL CASE 2 - A young single mother startles awake and realizes that her 2 month old infant has not awakened during the night for a feeding. She rushes into infant's room and discovers that the baby is not breathing. She grabs her baby and shakes her violently and although the baby begins breathing again, she dies several hours later.

1. What do you think was the cause of the condition of not breathing?

2. What is the cause of death?

3. What is the pathology of this condition?

4. Describe what's happened with infant's brain?

5. Are you able to describe what we expect from autopsy?

CLINICAL CASE 3 - A 77-year-old woman was cooking in the kitchen when she collapsed onto the floor. Her daughter called an ambulance and the woman was taken to the emergency room. She had suffered a sleeplike condition, and slowly regained consciousness over the next two days. However, when she woke up, she had the following signs and symptoms:

- paralysis of the right face and arm

- loss of sensation to touch on the skin of the right face and arm

- inability to answer questions but ability to understand what was said to her

- ability to write down her thoughts more easily than to speak them

Questions:

1. Based upon the patient's symptoms, what is the diagnosis?

2. Why was she paralyzed in the right face and arm?

3. What is the name of her language disorder, and what caused it?

4. Was this woman's dominant or nondominant hemisphere damaged?

Note - Need 700 words (answers only) + title page + references with in-text citations.