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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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The Brain Foundation allocates funds to research and medical education for the treatment and prevention of neurological disorders.
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer
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Persons with brain disorders have an increased risk for substance abuse, and most studies indicate that between 50 and 80 percent of individuals with psychiatric diagnoses also have substance use disorders.
Furthermore, some brain disorders can be the effects of other physical disorders that, when treated or cured, can eliminate the brain disorder.
Fact: Brain disorders, like heart disease and diabetes, are legitimate medical illnesses.
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Todd Porter,
Gym Attendent
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Neurological disorders can block and interrupt the normal nerve impulses from the brain to the penis that cause an erection.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Medications that are effective against many neurological symptoms of these disorders are ones that release dopamine in the brain or stimulate CNS dopamine receptors.
It is caused by a set of childhood eye disorders that result when the brain receives unequal or abnormal visual input from the eyes the brain shuts off the bad eye and slows its development in relation to the good eye.
There is a particular lack of provision for younger people who have a high dependency due to acquired brain disorders with accompanying behavioural disturbances.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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The Clinical Brain Disorders Branch (CBDB) is a multidisciplinary neurobiology laboratory focused on understanding the neural mechanisms involved in and the causes of schizophrenia.
There is evidence that abnormalities may occur on proton spectroscopy of part of the brain called the temporal lobe and that volume changes may occur in another part of the brain called the hippocampus in patients with post traumatic stress disorders.
Brain-imaging studies of OCD showing abnormal neurochemical activity in regions known to play a role in certain neurological disorders suggest that these areas may be crucial in the origins of OCD.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Alcoholism is also associated with brain disorders as 5,000 cases of seizures occur each year that are associated with alcohol poisoning.
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