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  2. Alcohol-related brain damage - Wikipedia

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    Alcohol-related brain damage can have drastic effects on the individuals affected and their loved ones. The options for treatment are very limited compared to other disorders. Although limited, most patients with alcohol-related cognitive deficits experienced slight improvement of their symptoms over the first two to three months of treatment. [8]

  3. Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    Consonants, due to their higher frequency, are typically affected first. [7] For example, the sounds "s" and "t" are often difficult to hear for those with hearing loss, affecting clarity of speech. [9] NIHL can affect either one or both ears. Unilateral hearing loss causes problems with directional hearing, affecting the ability to localize ...

  4. Erethism - Wikipedia

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    Erethism, [n 1] also known as erethismus mercurialis, mad hatter disease, or mad hatter syndrome, is a neurological disorder which affects the whole central nervous system, as well as a symptom complex, derived from mercury poisoning.

  5. End organ damage - Wikipedia

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    End organ damage is severe impairment of major body organs due to systemic disease. Commonly this is referred to in diabetes , high blood pressure , or states of low blood pressure or low blood volume. [ 1 ]

  6. Demyelinating disease - Wikipedia

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    A demyelinating disease refers to any disease affecting the nervous system where the myelin sheath surrounding neurons is damaged. [1] This damage disrupts the transmission of signals through the affected nerves, resulting in a decrease in their conduction ability.

  7. Causes of mental disorders - Wikipedia

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    Risk factors for mental illness include psychological trauma, adverse childhood experiences, genetic predisposition, and personality traits. [7] [8] Correlations between mental disorders and substance use are also found to have a two way relationship, in that substance use can lead to the development of mental disorders and having mental disorders can lead to substance use/abuse.

  8. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    Presenting accounts of anesthetic accidents, the producers stated that, every year, 6,000 Americans die or experience brain damage related to these mishaps. [7] In 1983, the British Royal Society of Medicine and the Harvard Medical School jointly sponsored a symposium on anesthesia deaths and injuries, resulting in an agreement to share ...

  9. Microwave burn - Wikipedia

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    Microwave burns are burn injuries caused by thermal effects of microwave radiation absorbed in a living organism.. In comparison with radiation burns caused by ionizing radiation, where the dominant mechanism of tissue damage is internal cell damage caused by free radicals, the type of burn caused by microwave radiation is by heat—health effects colloquially associated with the term ...