Alzheimer's Association. (n.d.). Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia. Retrieved March 26, 2017, from http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp This website was published by Alzheimer's Association which was created educate others about this disease that is becoming more and more prominent in our society.…
1.Provide a script of a Clinical Psychologist's description to their patient with a trauma disorder (Acute or Post) in terms of the neuroscience features---what changes in their brain functioning may be occurring as a function of the condition. What you are experiencing is called PTSD. When someone suffers a trauma, any type of trauma, the brain and body react. A trauma-related neuropathway is created that can be repeatedly reactivated, for some these changes pass in a few weeks, the disruption in mood or dreams does not last long. For others the symptoms can remain and start to interfere with day to day life.…
As his symptoms are very similar with alzheimer's as well, I looked back into the results of the scans, tests, and comments of his wife Jane. Jane described his general cognitive abilities to have “declined drastically,” and that he has not lived a “healthy” life. Degenerative tissue, damaged blood…
There have been some remarkable cases of music having very positive health benefits for advanced dementia patients. So the idea was to compose music that would be suitable to play at different times of day in an aged care home, to help develop a sense of familiarity of time and relatable action/activity. It was envisaged that the music could play an important role in focusing the mind and engaging the…
1. Dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) is an ongoing acute neurodegenerative sickness described by declining in intellect and memory, continuing damage in the power to perform day to day activities. DAT is the largest characteristic of dementia amongst seniors and makes up roughly two-thirds of events of dementia and linking sixty and seventy percentile of cases of progressive cognitive impairment in older adults. The occurrence of DAT is likely to increase as the people grow old. When it comes to diagnosing DAT, there are not any conclusive model or assessments, excluding brain biopsy, for diagnosis.…
Introduction: 2% of the population over the age of 75 suffers from both dementia and visual impairment. Physicians often find it challenging to administer the available outpatient cognitive assessment tools, which require functional vision to diagnose dementia. Case: A 62-year-old African-American woman with history of hypertension, type-2 diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy and legal blindness from Diabetic retinopathy presented for a routine evaluation. Patient was accompanied by her husband who expressed concerns that for the past six months, patient was being forgetful of instructions and had trouble remembering conversations, which the patient had denied. Patient had no fever, headache, dizziness, muscle weakness, weight changes,…
My name is Doc. Hemans from John Hopkins Hospital. At the start of November I received a new patient whose name was John. John is faced with Alzheimer’s and so he is going through a transition in his life.…
Meryl Comer, lost a loved one to Alzheimer’s, points out “we’re really a composite of our life experiences – memory layered upon memory and Alzheimer’s steals that away.” Memories are what most people are made up of, but the people who have Alzheimer’s disease no longer remember what memories are. Instead, they see faces and are surrounded by unfamiliar people and places. When signs of Alzheimer’s begin to appear in a beloved family member the person wishes there was a cure because that person knows their loved one will pass away with no chance of survival. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia.…
Anybody may be capable of telling a story, however, all stories are unique within how the stories are told. Whether a story regarding the Vietnam War, World War I, World War II, or several different events, contains various effects dealing with the particular event. Most of the population does not realize that Alzheimer’s is a popular event to question someone, since dealing with Alzheimer’s may be tragic. Not all stories about dealing with Alzheimer’s may be tragic, a few may be an enjoyable experience. Being in existence alongside someone known infinitely, there is a notable difference in how their behavior, attitude, and memory changes.…
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.…
With the constant evolution of science and medicine, people are living longer than ever before, though an aging population comes with many new challenges. One illness with poor patient outcomes is Alzheimer's, marked by worsening dementia that causes memory loss, personality changes, and trouble with higher functioning. Emerging research shows that prion diseases and non-infectious neurodegenerative diseases may be more similar than previously thought, consequently uncovering new possible treatment routes for progressive and irreversible diseases of the brain. Diseases that are neurodegenerative, such as Alzheimer's, have a similar mechanism to prion diseases that infect the brain and slowly destroy it (Frost and Diamond, 2010). The mechanism…
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.…
I decided to do Alzheimer's disease because I hear it talked about often. I know that it is a disease that affects someone's memory I just don't know what other parts of the body it affects and I'm curious about it. So first I decided to look at what causes Alzheimer's, Then what happens chemically, then It's characteristics, signs and symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the disorder. What causes Alzheimer's is plaque which can be found tangled in with the living brain nerve cells.…
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.…
Where is the cure for Alzheimer’s disease? The most common form of dementia is, Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Alzheimer’s can be defined as a disease that includes memory loss and inabilities that affect daily life.…