Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the nerve cells in the brain and…
Dementia is diagnosed by the presence of symptoms such as problems with memory, thinking, problem solving, language disturbances and psychological changes. Neurodegenerative changes within the brain, such as neuron death and a build-up of misplaced proteins are causal to the aforementioned symptoms. While an in depth understanding of the neurobiology of dementia has not been established, dementia diseases are characterized by the grade of neuron loss and the irreversible damage within the connections of the brain, combined with the resulting symptoms (Caberlotto and Nguyen, 2014). One of the most common forms of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, occurs as a result of chemical and degenerative structural changes within the brain. Dementia can also be caused by a number of conditions such as vascular dementia following a stroke, fronto-temporal dementia caused by brain injury or Korsakoff’s syndrome, which is associated with long term excessive drinking.…
It comes with ailments such as alzheimer 's, dementia, parkinson 's disease, and huntington 's disease. These ailments…
Often times dementia is thought to be an interchangeable term for Alzheimer’s disease. However, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are two similar yet different terminologies that should not be used in exchange for the other. Dementia is a broad term that is frequently used to describe people with underlying brain disorders who experience memory, communication and cognitive deficits. Neurodegenerative disease is usually the underlying factor that causes dementia. People who have dementia are affected differently depending on what part of the brain is affected or symptoms worsens over time.…
Symptoms are typically similar to that of AD, although DLB patients experience visual hallucinations, visuospatial deficits, fluctuating cognitive awareness, and parkinsonian symptoms [28;45;75](Wu, 2011;Gomperts et al. , 2012;Lebedev et al., 2013). Memory impairment is more pronounced in AD than DLB whereas SPECT and PET scans have demonstrated hypometabolism and hypoperfusion in the primary visual cortex in DLB but not in AD [31](Hampel et al.,…
The term dementia is an umbrella term which refers to a loss of cognitive functioning. This may include deficits in processes such as memory, reasoning, language, executive functioning and thinking, all leading to a reduced ability to participate in activities of daily living (NIH.gov). Forms of dementia include: vascular dementia (dementia caused by cerebral vascular injury, often stroke), dementia with Lewy bodies (caused by abnormal deposits of proteins in the brain), Alzheimer’s dementia (the most well-known and common form of dementia), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (including Pick’s disease and primary progressive aphasia), dementia associated with Huntington’s disease, and finally, dementia associated with Parkinson disease.…
Alzheimer’s disease is a constant loss of memory that occurs in the middle or old age. Parkinson’s disease is located in the nervous system which causes constant shaking in the muscles, and slow inaccurate movement. Huntington’s disease is a hereditary disease caused by the degeneration of the brain cells. Dementia is a disorder in the brain that causes memory loss, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. Athletes attain these diseases at a higher risk than the average people due to being more likely to get constant head trauma and…
What is Alzheimer's Disease? As a type of dementia, Alzheimer's causes problems in memory, thinking, and behavior. Usually symptoms develop slowly and get severely worse over time, eventually causing problems that interfere with daily tasks. This disease is the most common form of dementia, but this disease is not a normal part of aging. This disease accounts about 60 to 80 percent of dementia cases.…
Being the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S makes Alzheimer’s a common disease among older adults. Alzheimer’s is a continuous neurological disease that affects an individual’s memory, orientation and judgement. While damage begins to spread throughout the brain many abilities are lost. Cells lose the ability to perform these functions and end up making irreversible changes to the individual’s brain. Since Alzheimer’s is also a form of dementia it worsens over time.…
Alzheimer’s is a brain disease that slowly and progressively destroys memory cells in the brain and other types of brain cells. Today Alzheimer’s threatens the health system and about five million Americans. Death in Alzheimer’s has climbed up to fifty five percent. They say statin drugs are supposed to reduce the risk of stroke and cholesterol, but they actually increase the risk of dementia. The way that people live now is causing research to say that we will continue to die from Alzheimer’s.…
Alzheimer 's disease Alzheimer’s disease is a fatal disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS) and other systems of the body. The CNS includes the brain and spinal cord. The digestive system is affected by Alzheimer 's, this system includes; the mouth with salivary glands and teeth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, rectum, and anus. The Urinary system includes the kidneys, ureter, urinary bladder, and the urethra. The neuromuscular system is affected as the disease progresses, this includes the nerves and muscles of the body.…
Health Issue Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible and progressive brain cell degenerative disease that causes a steady decline in memory and mental functioning (“Overview,” 2015). As the most common form of dementia, the causes of Alzheimer’s disease may vary and result from a combination of multiple disorders that alter brain changes such as, clumping of amyloid plaques, tangled neurofibrillary or loss of connections between nerve cells in the brain (“Alzheimer's Disease,” n.d.). Currently, Alzheimer’s disease is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States. The Alzheimer’s Association states that there are more than 5 million people diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in the United States and 35 million people worldwide.…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), was discovered as senile form of dementia in early 1907 by Alois Alzheimer in 1907. Since then the disease has been researched and studied to generate a knowledge base of symptoms, etiology, pathogenesis, treatment and management of the disease. AD is differentiated from senile dementia due to the neurodegenerative process which involves deposits of protein known as amyloid in neurons and neurofibrillary tangles which form plaques. This formation of plaques leads to neuron death and the hardening of tissue leads to progressive and terminal neurological disease state. There has been no cure to Alzheimer’s disease to the complexity of disease and the lack of understanding of amyloid protein and its process.…
Alzheimer’s Association also defines the word “dementia” as a general term we use for the decline of memory loss and mental ability for everyday life. Just hearing those definitions, most people still won’t understand why we need a cure, or they use these words carelessly and in the wrong situations. According to the Alzheimer’s Association Foundation, in both cases, the neurons of the brain who has the disease “break connections with other nerve cells and ultimately die.”…
The leading factor to cell death and tissue loss of a brain affected by Alzheimer’s is plaques and tangles. These dead nerve cells made up of another protein are known as tangles. In the areas where tangles are formed nutrients and other necessities can no longer move through the cells. This causes a build up of a protein, beta-amyloid, between nerve cells known as plaques. . (Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics)…