What is the brain?
Your brain is the centre of your nervous system. It is made up of 100 billion nerve cells. Each cell is connected to around 10,000 others. Your brain is made up of 100 billion neurons.
How does your memory work?
As you grow and develop, these neurons are 'wired up ' to each other and communicate through thousands of connections – synapses. Memories are formed when certain connections are strengthened. The hippocampus, which is a certain part of the brain, is significant since it is associated with memories and learning. However, this part of the brain is one of first areas to weaken by aging. Memories can not be intentionally deleted from our brain, but people could just tone down the emotional content from a memory. Long-term memory falls into two categories, explicit and implicit. Explicit memories are …show more content…
However, these types of dementia cannot be cured currently. There are many types of dementia because they are associated with certain damage of brain cells in different areas if the brain.
With Alzheimer’s disease, it changes certain parts of the brain, which can lead to the death of various nerve cells. The symptoms of this disease begin slowly then worsen as steadily damaging the nerve cells throughout the brain. People diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease can take medication that would lessen behavioural problems, thinking, memory and speaking skills. This would neither cure the disease nor stop the disease from progressing.
Vascular dementia, strokes or changes in the brain’s blood supply lead to the death of brain tissues. The brain has various regions with different functions such as thinking, judgement and movement. The damage to the brain cells interferes with the communication to other brain cells causing a region of the brain to not function properly. This could affect a person’s thinking, behaviour and even
Your brain is the centre of your nervous system. It is made up of 100 billion nerve cells. Each cell is connected to around 10,000 others. Your brain is made up of 100 billion neurons.
How does your memory work?
As you grow and develop, these neurons are 'wired up ' to each other and communicate through thousands of connections – synapses. Memories are formed when certain connections are strengthened. The hippocampus, which is a certain part of the brain, is significant since it is associated with memories and learning. However, this part of the brain is one of first areas to weaken by aging. Memories can not be intentionally deleted from our brain, but people could just tone down the emotional content from a memory. Long-term memory falls into two categories, explicit and implicit. Explicit memories are …show more content…
However, these types of dementia cannot be cured currently. There are many types of dementia because they are associated with certain damage of brain cells in different areas if the brain.
With Alzheimer’s disease, it changes certain parts of the brain, which can lead to the death of various nerve cells. The symptoms of this disease begin slowly then worsen as steadily damaging the nerve cells throughout the brain. People diagnosed with Alzheimer 's disease can take medication that would lessen behavioural problems, thinking, memory and speaking skills. This would neither cure the disease nor stop the disease from progressing.
Vascular dementia, strokes or changes in the brain’s blood supply lead to the death of brain tissues. The brain has various regions with different functions such as thinking, judgement and movement. The damage to the brain cells interferes with the communication to other brain cells causing a region of the brain to not function properly. This could affect a person’s thinking, behaviour and even