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Diplopia. Diplopia. Other names. Double vision. One way a person might experience double vision. Specialty. Neurology, ophthalmology. Diplopia is the simultaneous perception of two images of a single object that may be displaced horizontally or vertically in relation to each other. [ 1] Also called double vision, it is a loss of visual focus ...
Vibroacoustic therapy. Vibroacoustic therapy ( VAT) is a type of sound therapy that involves passing low frequency sine wave vibrations into the body via a device with embedded speakers. [ 1][ 2] This therapy was developed in Norway by Olav Skille in the 1980s. [ 3] The Food and Drug Administration determined that vibroacoustic devices, such as ...
Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication ...
MDMA “has been shown to be safe and effective in the right conditions,” says Sunil Aggarwal, M.D., Ph.D., a physician in Seattle, Washington, who had been hoping to soon prescribe the drug to ...
Rather than aging being a gradual process, the human body actually experiences two dramatic bursts of aging at a molecular level, according to a new study.
Marlene Lenthang. Updated July 22, 2024 at 12:10 PM. South African actor Esta TerBlanche, who starred on the beloved soap “All My Children” for years has died, according to her publicist and ...
A speech sound disorder ( SSD) is a speech disorder affecting the ability to pronounce speech sounds, which includes speech articulation disorders and phonemic disorders, the latter referring to some sounds ( phonemes) not being produced or used correctly. The term "protracted phonological development" is sometimes preferred when describing ...
Dysarthria is a speech sound disorder resulting from neurological injury of the motor component of the motor–speech system [ 1] and is characterized by poor articulation of phonemes. [ 2] In other words, it is a condition in which problems effectively occur with the muscles that help produce speech, often making it very difficult to pronounce ...