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Parkinson’s is the second leading disorder affecting older adults; Alzheimer’s being the first. This disease is characterized by motor irregularities that include tremors, slowness, and rigidness. There are not only motor symptoms associated with the disease; there are also non-motor symptoms that include difficulties in the area of cognition, emotions, and sleeping (Eccles, Murray, and Simpson, 2011). Unfortunately, this disease is also a progressive disorder, meaning that as time goes on the…

As our body engages in everyday behavior, so does our brain. Every single thing we do on a day-to-day basis essentially corresponds to a calculated process that takes place within us. Regardless of the activity or experience, signals are sent to the various areas in our mind in order to help us successfully carry the activity out. We are able to perform certain tasks because of the cells in our brain and the chemicals they release to various other cells. These cells are better classified as…

speed memory. It is believed that these changes in the cognition are a different form of HE, once it can occur in beginning stages of fibrosis and without a severe liver disease (cirrhosis). The impairment of cognition can lead to changes in the brain: structural and functional changes. Areas related to memory have shown hypometabolism and the metabolites rates are also altered, leading to changes in the neurotransmission. The mechanisms underlying these process of impairment of cognition is…

and the muscle coordinations. Cerebral palsy is caused by many disorders inside the brain during the development that stops the brain’s ability to control motor movements. Cerebral palsy (CP) affects the motor function of the brain’s outer layer of cerebral cortex that directs muscle movement. And the cerebral motor cortex of the fetal is unable to developed normally. Therefore, the damage from injuries to the brain could be before, during, or after the infant in born. Those damages are not…

cases, dyslexia is undiagnosed for years and is not recognized until adulthood (Staff, 2016). Dyslexia does not have a cure. It is a lifelong condition that is believed to be caused by traits that are inherited. These inherited traits affect how the brain works and is the reason why dyslexia is believed to be a neurological or neurobiological condition (Dyslexia, 2016). Most individuals with dyslexia can succeed in school with the help of tutors, emotional support, and/or a specialized education…

This is a room that was invented by Adelbert Ames in 1934 , but it wasn't built until 1946. Ames Room is an optical illusion that makes an object look like it's smaller than the other one . One can look bigger than the one to left or right . Why does it look like that? . When you see it in your point of view the human eye will identificate as the object are close and right next to each other , but in reality one is more farther away than the object next to it . They will look like the person is…

Task 2 Evaluation of the Multi Store Model of Memory The multi-store model by Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968) states that memory consists of three stores; the sensory store, short- term store and the long-term store. Information from the environment initially goes into sensory memory which we do take much not take much notice of, but the moment we pay attention to it, the information gets encoded and passed down into the short- term memory. Since the short-term memory has a finite duration and…

we can’t tell “which of two inverted faces is the original when one has been slightly altered.” Dubbed the Thatcher Illusion, it is a result of our brain evolving a specialized facial recognition area separate from the area used for all other objects. The reason why is very simple; faces are always upright. There’s no need to take up space in the brain with in order to recognize upside-down faces when we almost never see them. We know that we share this evolutional quirk with other primates and…

dementia, Kuru. The native tribes' traditional practices include eating the brains of their dead relatives. The Fore tribe has developed resistance to Kuru, due to their cannibalism culture. Kuru is a prion-based disease, similar to viruses found in cattle (Mad Cow Disease) and sheep (Scrappie). According to Science World Reports, this prion bacteria eats up brain neurons, that will later cause severe loss of memory and brain damage.…

light on Alzheimer. The personal troubles of most of the illnesses we are discussing are that they attack the body; however, Alzheimer’s is a little different because it destroys the mind; It's a brutal and debilitating disease. As the patient's brain slowly dies, they change physically and eventually forget who their loved ones are. Patients can eventually become incapacitated, unable to move and not to eat or drink. Personally, this is the illness I fear the most as part of the aging process,…