What is Alzheimer’s disease? How is Alzheimer’s disease formed?
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that destroys memories, thinking skills, and causes drastic changes in behavior. In which the brain is losing nerve cells also called neurons caused by “Tangles” and “Plaques.” They are both formed up out of two different types of proteins which are called Beta-Amyloid protein and Tau Protein. These proteins are usually formed to help our brain cells’ communication. Like for example Beta-Amyloid protein is a protein that is usually released from a bigger protein called the APP protein (In which the APP protein is located on the surface of the cell) that usually used to be cleared inside the body. But in Alzheimer’s disease the Beta-Amyloid …show more content…
The first stage develops at the bottom of the brain where usually most of the memory is usually kept. Thats why the first symptom is usually short term memory loss. Then the disease spreads out at the front of the brain where the proteins destroy the process of logical thoughts. Next they move up to the part of the brain where it controls emotions. In which it causes drastic mood changes with a person with Alzheimer’s disease. Then in the fourth stage is when the proteins reach the top of the brain and causes hallucinations and paranoia. later on these proteins move into the back of the brain causing the loss of long term memory. Which destroys our deepest and most valuable memories. Lastly the proteins finally reach into the “control room” part of the brain where all of our breathing and heart rate is controlled which leads to …show more content…
Scientist haven’t found what causes these proteins to react like this nor how to prevent the disease to spread. Also scientist haven’t found out what kind of relationship does each protein have with each other since one protein reaction doesn’t come without the other and what kind of effect causes these to react like this. Even though they haven’t found a complete cure, scientist have found a way to the slow down disease’s process and to decrease the symptoms a little more. They’re various ways to receive this treatment/medication; one of them is a temporary treatment that increases an important chemical messenger in the brain. Which it was decrease caused by the death of nerve cells that was caused by alzheimer’s disease’s destruction. Another way that scientist have found to slow it’s process down is with a vaccination. This vaccination will go ahead and attack the plaques that are being created by alzheimer’s disease. Even though that scientist along the way they’ve found a way to slow the disease down. They still need to find a cure. It’s 2015 and we still haven’t found a cure that can completely eliminated this disease. But scientist had discovered more things about Alzheimer’s disease during these last 15 years since it was discovered. Like for example the fact that the disease starts years before having the symptoms of the disease and it takes about 6-8 years to
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that destroys memories, thinking skills, and causes drastic changes in behavior. In which the brain is losing nerve cells also called neurons caused by “Tangles” and “Plaques.” They are both formed up out of two different types of proteins which are called Beta-Amyloid protein and Tau Protein. These proteins are usually formed to help our brain cells’ communication. Like for example Beta-Amyloid protein is a protein that is usually released from a bigger protein called the APP protein (In which the APP protein is located on the surface of the cell) that usually used to be cleared inside the body. But in Alzheimer’s disease the Beta-Amyloid …show more content…
The first stage develops at the bottom of the brain where usually most of the memory is usually kept. Thats why the first symptom is usually short term memory loss. Then the disease spreads out at the front of the brain where the proteins destroy the process of logical thoughts. Next they move up to the part of the brain where it controls emotions. In which it causes drastic mood changes with a person with Alzheimer’s disease. Then in the fourth stage is when the proteins reach the top of the brain and causes hallucinations and paranoia. later on these proteins move into the back of the brain causing the loss of long term memory. Which destroys our deepest and most valuable memories. Lastly the proteins finally reach into the “control room” part of the brain where all of our breathing and heart rate is controlled which leads to …show more content…
Scientist haven’t found what causes these proteins to react like this nor how to prevent the disease to spread. Also scientist haven’t found out what kind of relationship does each protein have with each other since one protein reaction doesn’t come without the other and what kind of effect causes these to react like this. Even though they haven’t found a complete cure, scientist have found a way to the slow down disease’s process and to decrease the symptoms a little more. They’re various ways to receive this treatment/medication; one of them is a temporary treatment that increases an important chemical messenger in the brain. Which it was decrease caused by the death of nerve cells that was caused by alzheimer’s disease’s destruction. Another way that scientist have found to slow it’s process down is with a vaccination. This vaccination will go ahead and attack the plaques that are being created by alzheimer’s disease. Even though that scientist along the way they’ve found a way to slow the disease down. They still need to find a cure. It’s 2015 and we still haven’t found a cure that can completely eliminated this disease. But scientist had discovered more things about Alzheimer’s disease during these last 15 years since it was discovered. Like for example the fact that the disease starts years before having the symptoms of the disease and it takes about 6-8 years to