MSCI650 Patient with Narcolepsy Neurological Disorders

MSCI 650 CASE STUDY REVIEW: DISEASES OF DEVELOPMENT, BRAINSTEM, AND SPINAL

CORD ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

 OVERVIEW

Neurological disorders are diseases of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by neurological disorders, and thus are a common presentation in medical practice.

 INSTRUCTIONS

• Select a neurological disease from the list below. If you would like to use a neurological disease not listed below, you may request approval directly from your Professor.

Asperger Syndrome Chiari Malformaion Friedrich’s ataxia Guillain-Barre Syndrome Meningioma Multiple sclerosis Narcolepsy Oligoastrocytomas Oligodendroglioma PNET (primitive neuroectodermal tumor) Rett syndrome Spina bifida Spinal muscular atrophy Tay-Sachs disease Von Hippel-Lindau disease Wallenberg syndrome

• After selecting your disease, find a case study from a scholarly journal based on this disease. The case study should primarily focus on your selected neurological disease.

• Write a paper based on this case study, following the outline below:

o Part I (1–2 pp.) – Case Study Summary

1) What are the main points of the case study?

2) Who was the person?

3) What happened to them?

4) How did (or could) the condition influence him/her and the lives of those close to him/her?

o Part II (4–6 pp.) – Literature Review

1) Review the normal anatomy and physiology of the area of the nervous system affected by this condition and how the neurological disease alters this.

2) What causes this condition?

3) What are the typical symptoms?

4) What is the prognosis?

5) What is the treatment?

6) What information is still outstanding regarding the development and treatment of this condition? Is there anything we still don’t know about how this disease develops? Are there holes in our ability to treat this disease?

2. Your paper must be 5–8 pages, double-spaced, and in 12-point, Times New Roman font with 1-inch margins. You must include a title page and bibliography, which do not count toward the page total. Images and/or figures are welcome additions to your paper; however, they also do not count toward the page total. Images can either be embedded into the paper text or included as an appendix. Papers may not be more than 8 pages without prior approval from the instructor.

3. The Case Study Review must include at least 5 sources in addition to the article itself. Additional sources are limited to journal articles, manuscripts, and scholarly textbooks. Sources must be listed in a bibliography at the end of the paper using current APA format. All citations must be in current APA format. Refer to the Liberty University Writing Center for more information.

4. Plagiarism is a serious academic infringement. Avoid it at all costs.

Note that you are fully responsible for any plagiarism detected by the instructor of this course. Cases of plagiarism will be dealt with according to current policies

Please note students may not select a disease about which have previously written research papers or article reviews. The reuse of previous papers, or sections of previous papers, within this course is considered self-plagiarism and is not permitted.