Neurology

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, about five million people in the United States are diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia, or memory loss that can also cause problems with behavior. Anyone can be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, however, the most common age is 65 and older. Alzheimer’s disrupts the way electrical charges travel in the cells and the activity of neurotransmitters. This causes nerve cells to die, which in turn causes tissue loss. Overtime, the brain…

My research paper is on brain cancer. The spinal cord and brain create the central nervous system, which is also known as CNS. Tumors are the main cause of cancer, they can form in any part of your body. “ A tumor that starts in another part of your body and spreads to the brain is called a metastic brain tumor.” (cancer.gov) Spinal cord and brain tumors can either start as bengin or melignant. Bengin is not cancer and melingnant is cancer. There are many types of tumors, but the most common…

Throughout the years, scientists have been looking for cures and answers to dementia. Friederich H. Lewy discovered Lewy Body Dementia, being the second most common form of dementia right under Alzheimer’s disease. More than 1.3 Americans have been diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia. Research on Lewy Body Dementia and new forms of medications have made progress since it was first discovered making it a little easier to cope with but still no promising cures. Lewy body is a severe yet relatively…

Reduce Sciatica Pain in Less than 15 Minutes with These Simple Yoga Poses Sciatica is the longest nerve in our body. There are two sciatica nerves. They start at the base of the spine, go downwards through the thigh and calf muscle and end in the foot. Sciatica pain it is not a chronic pain, but many people experience this type of pain at some point in their lives. The symptoms of sciatica pain can also be mild. For instance, you can feel weakness in the knees or tingling in the legs. Signs…

One big obstacle I had to over come was, when I discovered I had Frontal Lobe Epilepsy. I had my first seizure in my Junior year, October 18, 2013 on my best friends birthday, in the middle of my fathers AP United States History class. At the time we thought it was a one time thing and it was not going to happen again. That was until my Birthday party in July the following summer. We returned to the Neurologist to get another EEG and MRI. That is when we discovered that they were due to scar…

Alzheimer’s is a permanent brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills. It will eventually inhibit the ability to carry out the simplest daily tasks. More than 5 million people have the disorder. Adults younger than the age of 65 account for almost 500,000 cases. There are seven stages to Alzheimer’s. These seven stages range from no impairment to severe dementia. Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning that interferes with a person’s daily life. Alzheimer’s disease is…

Answer the following questions: 1. List and explain the extrapyramidal side effects from first-generation antipsychotics Acute dystonia- muscle rigidity of the neck that causes head to move to one side. Rapid onset. Akathisia- psychomotor restlessness. Inability to be still. often found to be distressing. Pseudoparkinsonism- temporary symptoms caused by medication that are often seen with Parkinsons's disease: tremor, reduced accessory movements, impaired gait, and stiffening of muscles.…

Moving Day Moving Day, it’s an event organized by the Parkinson’s Foundation with the help of other partners to remember and celebrate those people living with this progressing disease that affects many of our elderly. It’s also an opportunity to create awareness, to educate the people about the effects of this disease that not only affects the elderly but can also have a slowly progression of symptoms in an early age, and it’s as well a great opportunity for funding. So, what is Parkinson’s…

22. Has adequate time been allowed to fully understand the phenomenon? Dementia and confusion are something that has confounded mankind for a decades. The ultimate understanding of this conceptual problem and its adverse effect on the families may not be fully understood for centuries to come. It is something that we at present are discovering and understanding more fully every day. With society as a whole living linger the incidence of dementia is increasing as well. I believe caretakers as a…

In both clinical observation and animal models, infants have experienced seizures a period of hours after an initial asphyxia event, the effect that these seizures have in terms of neural damage however, is not known. Meldrum (1999) seizures as the sudden simultaneous firing of cells in a particular part of the brain. This is shown as high amplitude/high frequency EEG waves; and could cause physical convulsions of the body. The effect to the brain is a lot more wide spread with consequences that…