An auditory hallucination, or paracusia, is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus. Auditory hallucinations need to be distinguished from endaural phenomena in which sounds are heard without any external acoustic stimulation but arise from disorders of the ear or auditory system. A common form of auditory hallucination involves hearing one…
Obstructive sleep apnea (also sometimes spelled sleep apnoea) takes place when a persons breathing stops as they sleep. It is defined as “a common sleep disorder characterized by brief interruptions of breathing during sleep.“ These interruptions of sleep are apneas, and they generally take place over a period of ten seconds or more and can…
Cystic fibrosis was a disease that has been around since the Middle Ages. Many infants with “salty skin” often died in infancy or young. These babies and children were considered “bewitched” because they died at such an early age. The Swiss pediatrician Guido Fanconi first named the disease in 1936, when he refers to it…
There are several types of panic disorders, the most common being a panic attack. While panic attacks don’t usually last for more than ten minutes, to say they can become detrimental to your way of living and your daily activities is an understatement. If you believe that you are having panic attacks, it is best…
Whoever would have thought that some men might shy away from having intimate relations because of the intense headache pain they experience as they are about to climax? This is a very real problem and although not common it can be a big issue for men in serious relationships. How do you tell your girlfriend…
Social anxiety disorder is a kind of anxiety people feel when they have excessive self-consciousness in the arena of everyday life. Those who have social anxiety disorder have serious problems carrying out simple tasks in a social setting because they have an over whelming and intense feeling that people are watching their every move, scrutinizing…
There are many different types of massage therapy techniques that are practiced the world over in the hopes that the techniques will help individuals to feel better regarding their health in multiple aspects. In this article, well focus on a very specific form of massage that is known as the Anma massage, which has been…
Scene: the Emergency Room. A young woman strapped to a gurney is surrounded by three nurses attempting to find a vein to hook her up to an IV. She is in the middle of an episode of atrial fibrillation with tachycardia, her heart racing at a dangerous 200 bPM. The IV contains amiodarone, used to…
There are many types of massage therapy which can utilized. And there might be times in your life where you will want or need a certain type of treatment or approach. You might find that if you have someone who becomes stricken with an illness or disease for example that they will need a certain…