Amyloid

Introduction Alzheimer disease (AD) affects one of ten people over the age of 65. With the increased aging population no, one is immune to suffering from it. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the physical and cognitive changes that comes with the aging process, so that we may help to slower the progression of the disease and hopefully someday develop a cure. Knowledge of condition AD can be considered A state of being brain dead while you’re still awake. The ‘forget me’ disease,…

Kim Janda of the Scripps Research Institute suggests that marijuana can slow this disease’s progression. In the journal, Molecular Pharmaceutics, a 2006 study was published that found THC, the active chemical in marijuana, slowed the creation of amyloid plaques by blocking the enzyme in the brain that forms them. These plaques kill brain cells and cause this disease. Multiple sclerosis is a very painful disease, but marijuana may be able to ease this pain. A study in the Canadian Medical…

, 1994). JNK is involved in many physiological and pathological processes. The JNK pathway plays a major role in apoptosis. JNK pathway is required for neuronal cell death induced by many apoptotic stimuli such as DNA damage, oxidative stress, α-amyloid exposure, low potassium, excitotoxic stress, 6-OHDA, UV irradiation, nerve growth factor (NGF) deprivation, trophic support withdrawal and tumor necrosis factor…

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to measure object recognition testing on sleep/wake rats that measures in a streptozotocin-induced rat model of Sporadic Alzheimer’s disease. I will be focusing on object recognition testing in mice where they have the ability to perceive certain objects by its physical features such as color, shape, size, texture to determine how your short-term memory works when one or two different objects are placed for a certain period of time. The term “object…

Que: 1 Describes the components and conduction pathway of the cardiac conduction system of the heart.relate the cardiac condution system to the corresponding sequence of heart chamber contractions. The cardiac conduction system refers to a group of specialized muscle cells of the heart’s wall (Assadi, 2013). The cells are meant to send signals to the cardiac muscles thus contraction. The major components of the cardiac conduction system are the Atrioventricular node, sinuatrial node, the bundle…

Growing old is a part of life. No matter how hard someone may try, there is no way to prevent the inevitable. Although when someone does age, their mind and memory does start to deteriorate, these subtle changes should never be undermined. There is a great chance these small effects could be an indicator to a much more serious life threat than old age; Alzheimer’s disease. This along with Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease and all forms of dementia, a general term for any decline in mental…

☠ CTE KILLS ☠ An athlete goes down on the field, and paramedics rush to his aid. When they arrive to help him they observe he has a large amount of head trauma. Over the years, this same athlete will continue to play contact sports such as football, or boxing resulting permanent brain damage. At the young age of forty, this athlete could already have dementia-like symptoms that occur in older adults. How can we allow this continue? Close contact sports such as boxing, MMA, and football are…

Looking at Dementia-Alzheimer’s a Neurocognitive Disorder Alzheimer’s is the most common type of Dementia that is found and is considered to be a disease because there is no cure for it at the moment but treatment can help control some of the symptoms. In the article “Alzheimer’s disease” by Kaj Blennow, Mony J de Leon, and Henrik Zetterberg the authors stated that Alzheimer’s is the most common case seen in dementia and accounts for 50-60% of all the dementia cases. The onset of Alzheimer’s…

Until recently, individuals with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD) were expected to have a short life span. Growing older brings many age related signs and symptoms affecting this population not only physically, emotionally, but cognitively as well. While the body ages, certain progressive changes occur; which may be dictated by genes, environmental factors, or lifestyle. Anatomical transformations occur in all systems from the muscular skeletal with the loss of some agility to…

Many people adjust their diets in order to have a healthier body or to lose weight, but not many think about basing their food intake on what their mind craves. The truth is they could be damaging or protecting it without even being aware of it. Don’t worry there’s a ton of good tasting food that can boost brain functioning, like the much loved dark chocolate. One might just assume dark chocolate makes them feel good because of the taste, but the actuality is that it increases the chemicals…