Amyloid

Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia and is also the most common form of it. It is According to the Alzheimer’s Association, it accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia. This disease is an advanced loss of intellectual function that eventually interferes with someone’s day to day living; such as relationships, work ethic, and even personal hygiene. With Alzheimer’s, there is a lack of ambition, changes in personality, and weakened judgment. This progressive disease happens in people who…

enough coffee has brought some serious disease threats to a minimum as research has shown that coffee can actually reduce the risk of type II diabetes. Research conducted shows that people with type II diabetes have a higher level of human pilot amyloid polypeptide (also known as hiAPP) that has been building up around the pancreas. The pancreas produces insulin (Insulin is a hormone that distributes glucose…

It is estimated that as many as 5.1 million Americans may have Alzheimer 's. Alzheimer’s is a disease that virtually every old person prays that they will never be diagnosed with. Who wants a disease that slowly steals your brain? Love? Memory? Self esteem? But most importantly: independence. In B. Smith & Dan Gasby’s memoir Before I Forget, expresses the hardship of living with Alzheimer’s, but no matter what, Dan & B. need to have patience and hope. At the same time, Gasby believes that one…

Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia characterized by progressive, irreversible deterioration of general intellectual functioning. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for almost 80% of dementia diagnosis, and occurs in middle or late life. Statistically, it shows that it affects more women than men. Patients with Alzheimer’s disease die an average 4-6 years after diagnosis, however, the disease duration varies from 3-20 years. (LeMone, 2015) Scientist estimate that more than 5.3 million people…

On November 25, 1901, Karl Deter, husband of patient, Auguste Deter, enrolled her in a mental institution called Asylum for the Insane and Epileptic in Frankurt, Germany where she was to be examined for multiple symptoms that showed signs of the deterioration of memory. Deter, 51, had been suffering from things such as, hallucinations, unpredictable behavior, and paranoia. She was also missing her sense of orientation and experienced lack of communication skills. The first person to examine…

A type of brain protein clumps together and causes damage with it’s fibrils and then causes solid deposits. In Alzheimer’s the proteins include amyloid-beta and tau but in others it can be other proteins. These deposits increase your risk and damage to the brain. Some treatments are being developed to look at addressing this aspect of Dementia. 2) Immune changes and inflammation have been shown to…

The legalization of marijuana, one of the earth most beneficial plants, can help solve many problems in the U.S.A. Marijuana has a vast variety of different uses and benefits in today's 21st-century society but remains illegal under the federal law placed by the U.S government. Twenty-nine states have decriminalized cannabis for medical use in past years but is not recognized by the federal government. But due to how the U.S works federal law does not recognize state laws. The legalization of…

transmission via TNTs is also implicated due to PrPsc transmission from mouse bone marrow-derived dendritic cells to mouse primary cerebellar granule neurons (CGN) in vitro (Gousset 2009). TNTs are also implicated in Alzheimer’s disease by transfer of amyloid β-EGFP from H2O2 or serum depletion stress-induced TNTs in rat primary hippocampal astrocytes to non-stressed astrocytes, and from stressed to non-stressed rat hippocampus neurons in vitro (Wang 2011). Mutant, GFP-Htt protein was also…

places, and faces. This disease is not a normal part of aging. Occurring typically in people over sixty-five years of age, it is caused by either neurofibrillary tangles, tangles of the nerve cells, or the buildup of the protein deposits, beta-amyloid plaques, in the brain. Both the cause and process of this nerve damage are still unknown (Senelick). Damage to the brain begins about a decade before any symptoms appear. The damage initially takes place in the hippocampus, the section of the…

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…