Each of the parents dreams that his child will be born healthy and grow up beautiful and intelligent. Fortunately, in most cases it happens, but sometimes there are unpleasant exceptions.
Modern medicine has stepped far ahead, and many dangerous diseases are already curable. But there are such rare and strange diseases, which have so far been little studied. Even the best of doctors is not given to understand the causes of their occurrence and help people who are ill with them.
1. Disgraphy, dyslexia, discusculature
At first everything looks quite normal: the child grows, plays, learns. But at a certain time, parents are confronted with incomprehensible problems. Their children are absolutely impossible to teach to read, write, count. What is the reason and what to do? Is it just laziness or some strange disease?
Written speech consists of two types of speech activity - writing and reading. Such strange and somewhat frightening words as dysgraphia and dyslexia mean the inability or difficulty of mastering writing and reading. Most often they are observed simultaneously, but sometimes they can occur separately. The total inability to read is called alexia, the total inability to write is agrarians.
Many doctors do not consider these deviations as a disease, but refer them to the peculiarities of the structure of the brain with a completely different perception of the world and another look at the usual things. Dyslexia needs to be corrected, not treated. The inability to read and write can be complete or partial: inability to understand letters and symbols, whole words and sentences, or full text. The child can be taught to write, but at the same time he makes a lot of mistakes, confuses letters and symbols. And, of course, this happens not because of inattention or laziness. This must be understood. Such a child needs the help of a specialist.
To the previous symptoms is often joined by another unpleasant sign - diskulkuly. It is characterized by the inability to understand numbers, which is probably due to the inability to understand letters and symbols when reading. Sometimes children quite tolerably perform actions with numbers in the mind, but tasks described by the text can not perform. This is probably because the person does not have the opportunity to perceive the whole text.
Unfortunately, modern medicine does not yet give a definite answer to the question of why a dyslexic can not learn to read, write, count in either 6 or 12 years old or as an adult.
2. Dyspraxia - a disorder of coordination
This abnormality is characterized by the inability to perform any simple actions, for example, brush your teeth or tie your shoelaces. The trouble for parents is that they do not understand the specifics of this behavior, and instead of paying proper attention they display anger and irritation.
But, in addition to childhood diseases, there are many such, no less strange, ailments that a person encounters already in adulthood. You probably did not even hear about some of them.
3. A microsis or syndrome "Alice in Wonderland"
This, fortunately, is a fairly rare neurological disorder affecting the visual perception of people. Patients see people, animals and their surroundings much smaller than they really are. In addition, the distances between them appear distorted. This disease is often called "Lilliputian vision," although it affects not only sight, but also hearing and touch. Even your own body may seem completely different. Usually the syndrome continues with closed eyes and often manifests itself with the onset of darkness, when the brain lacks information about the size of surrounding objects.
4. Stendhal Syndrome
On the presence of a disease of this kind, people can not guess before the first visit to the picture gallery. When you get to a place where there are a large number of art objects, he begins to experience severe symptoms of a panic attack: rapid heartbeat, dizziness, increased heart rate and even hallucinations. In one of the galleries of Florence with tourists often there were such cases, which served as a description of this disease. Its name was due to the well-known writer Stendhal, who described similar symptoms in his book "Naples and Florence".
5. Syndrome of jumping Frenchman from Maine
The main sign of this rather rare genetic disease is severe fear. Such patients with the slightest sound stimulus jumping, shouting, waving their hands, then falling, rolling on the floor and long can not calm down. This disease was first recorded in the US in 1878 from a French logger in Maine. Hence its name came to be. Its other name is sharpened reflection.
6. Urbach-Vite disease
Sometimes this is more than a strange disease called the "brave lion" syndrome. It is a very rare genetic disease, the main symptom of which is almost complete absence of fear. Numerous studies have shown that the absence of fear is not the cause of the disease, but is the result of the destruction of the amygdala of the brain. Usually in such patients, a hoarse voice and wrinkled skin. Fortunately, since the discovery of this disease in the medical literature recorded less than 300 cases of its manifestation.
7. The Syndrome of someone else's hand
This is a complex psychoneurological disease characterized by the fact that one or both of the patient's hands act as if by themselves. German neurologist Kurt Goldstein first described the symptoms of this strange disease when he observed his patient. During sleep, her left hand, acting on some obscure rules, suddenly began to strangle her "mistress." This strange disease occurs due to damage to the transmission of signals between the hemispheres of the brain. With such a disease you can do yourself harm without realizing what is happening.