Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Dues Paying Blindness The phone rings around 7:30 on a cool, breezy night in early June, and since the Talking Caller ID announces, “Call from … Mom,” Tracy Greene answers the landline, which he keeps because his mother Helen Greene is 88 and several months, and she does not know his cell number offhand and probably never will. He has been sitting around the apartment binge-watching Season Three of The Walking Dead on Netflix in his white tank top and blue striped boxers for the better part of…

Macular degeneration is an incurable eye disease that causes sight loss. Questions about macular degeneration are; what it is man-i-cur-lar de-gen-er-ate-ion, what cause this, what can be a treatment, what will happen in my everyday life, who else is affected by this, how can I see the sign that will open up my eyes. Macular Degeneration according to “Health Reference Center” Macular degeneration and AMD or age-related macular degeneration is an incurable eye disease that causes loss of central…

cognitive impairment. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in seniors (75 percent of cases), but it is not the only kind. Other forms of dementia include vascular dementia, which often follows a stroke; frontotemporal lobar degeneration and corticobasal degeneration, in which areas of the brain start to shrink; and Parkinson's disease dementia. While the causation and prognosis of each dementia type vary, one thing is certain: if your senior loved one has any form of…

In this essay, I will be talking about PPA and how it effects one individual diagnosed with it. There will be a summary and critique of the language and content used to describe and diagnose PPA. Some articles written about the syndromes of neurodegenerative disorders might have incorrect information and stigmatizing language. In this essay, there will be a summary of the article, the accuracy of it and the critique of the language used. This article goes into the diagnosis and rehabilitation of…

Prodromal stages show an independent association while the mild-moderate stages of AD showed association with frailty transition as well as aging and cognitive degeneration (2). Diagnostic workup for AD is physical and neurological assessment, and blood analysis (9). Besides biomarker-based tests in CSF analysis and brain imaging using CT scan or MRI, Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Addenbrooke’s Cognitive…

The Mystery of Stephan Paddock’s Brain was published in the days following Mr. Stephan Paddock’s October 1st, 2017 mass killings spree of 58 people and leaving 851 injured. The article delves into the possible biological and psychological components which could have played a role in his decision-making processes. Given that the article was published less than a week after the shootings, it is plausible that the author did not have the proper diagnostic information to make educated assumptions…

IV. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy Another major facet of sports-related concussions is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as it’s considered to be a gradual neurodegeneration due to repeated mTBI (Gavett et al., 2011). Since there are many high-contact sports (such as football, hockey, boxing, etc.) as well as high chances of accidental injury in non-contact sports – repeated head injuries are very common (Gavett et al., 2011). This is another reason sports-related concussions…