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The Ashley Treatment refers to a controversial set of medical procedures performed on an American child, "Ashley X".Ashley, born in 1997, has severe developmental disabilities due to static encephalopathy; she is assumed to be at an infant level mentally, but continues to grow physically.
The symptoms variably include feelings of increased self-awareness, mental clarity, certainty, feelings of "unity with everything that exists" (including the external environment), intense positive affect, a sense of intense serenity or bliss, mystical, spiritual, or religious experiences, physical well-being, a sense of "hyper-reality", and time dilation, among others.
Fetal alcohol syndrome, partial fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder, static encephalopathy, alcohol-related birth defects [1] Causes: Drinking alcohol during pregnancy [1] Diagnostic method: Based on symptoms and prenatal alcohol exposure [1] Differential diagnosis
The onset of seizures is between the ages of 2 and 5 years of age. EEG shows regular and irregular bilaterally synchronous 2- to 3-Hz spike-waves and polyspike patterns with a 4- to 7-Hz background. 84% of affected children show normal development prior to seizures; the remainder show moderate psychomotor retardation mainly affecting speech.
Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation is a heterogenous group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases, still under research, in which iron accumulates in the basal ganglia, either resulting in progressive dystonia, parkinsonism, spasticity, optic atrophy, retinal degeneration, neuropsychiatric, or diverse neurologic abnormalities. [1]
Status epilepticus (SE), or status seizure, is a medical condition with abnormally prolonged seizures, and which can have long-term consequences, [3] manifesting as a single seizure lasting more than a defined time (time point 1), or 2 or more seizures over the same period without the person returning to normal between them.
"Ashley was a faithful believer and made sure she took her girls to church weekly." "Within seconds the girls lost both parents," he added. Anyone with information about the case is encouraged to ...
It is associated with MLC1. [5] [6] The MLC1 gene is located in chromosome 22q13.33 and is in the genomic coordinates 22:50,059,390 – 50,085874. [7]The gene contains 12 exons and that contain a start codon in exon 2 and an untranslated region in the 3’ end. [8]