Juniper Publishers- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

  JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Opinion The disabilities may very well be defined as a "state of non-functionality”. It may be a temporary or permanent. Disability may be caused by accident or developmental anomaly or disruption of anatomical and/or physiological homeostasis on the system level, organ level, tissue level, cellular level or Nucleus level. To date, all healthcare disciplines Allopathy, Homeopathy, Alternative medicine and others stop their investigation to diagnose at cellular level. Cells are controlled by the nucleus. Nobody has yet further investigated the contribution of "Nucleopathy” into the malfunctioning of the system that signifies the phenomena of "Symptomatology”. The urgency of settlement of the symptomatology has compelled the healthcare system to continue to develop advancements in its alleviation that is now thought to be the best available solution for the quality healt...

JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Opinion We are studying the Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia (BPSD) in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Firstly we investigated the effects of aging or disease progression on BPSD. According to patient age at the time of the test, the 79 AD patient group (n=79, whole AD group was divided into two groups: a relative Older Group (OG) and a relative younger group (YG). The diurnal rhythm was significantly higher in the OG than in the YG (Student's t-test: P<0.05). Factor analysis showed that in OG the psychotic symptoms were connected by anxieties and phobias [ 1 ]. Then the AD patients were divided into a group with higher performance (n=40, HP group) and a group with lower performance (n=39, LP group). The disturbance of activity and disturbance of diurnal rhythm were negatively correlated with cognitive function, while affective disturbance was positively correlat...

  JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF INTELLECTUAL & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Abstract This opinion answers the question "Is exposure to fetal alcohol important?"; Especially, when considering the etiology of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Based on clinical experience and scientific literature the answer is a resounding "Yes";. A recent Institute of Medicine Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education report on Mental Disorders and Disabilities among Low-Income Children focused on the prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorders and Conduct Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, and Mood Disorders. Unfortunately, fetal alcohol exposure (FAE) did not have enough hard evidence to be included. There was very little mention of this common etiologic factor in the Neuro developmental Disorders of Childhood. The authors think this ov...