Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that impairs a person’s ability to think clearly, manage his or her emotions, make decisions and relate to others. Like cancer or diabetes, it is a complex chronic medical illness affecting different people in different ways. It is not caused by bad parenting or personal weakness, but appears to be a result of problems with brai
Cerebral palsy (CP) has an incidence and prevalence rate ofabout two per 1000 in children (Grether et al.1992, Yeargin-Allsopp et al. 1992). Spasticity is a major clinical feature of over75% of cases of CP and is conventionally considered to be amajor cause of discomfort, gait abnormalities, and function-al limitations for persons with CP. Many resources have beendirected at the treatment of spa