Neurology

How would you feel if you were unable to effectively communicate your feelings and emotions? Would you become frustrated, depressed, or even angry? Alzheimer’s disease affects numerous people, in fact one in ten people age 65 or older has Alzheimer’s dementia. Alzheimer’s causes memory loss and gradually diminishes a person’s ability to communicate; therefore, learning how to effectively communicate with those who have Alzheimer’s is very important. Good communication with an Alzheimer’s patient…

The Forgetting 1.) Alzheimer’s disease essentially takes away who you are as a person. Alzheimer’s takes away the personality and memory of a person with the disease. The symptoms of Alzheimer’s begin when the synapses are disrupted. Plaque forms between nerve cells and blocks communication. Neurons in the brain cannot connect and synapses disappear. Not only does Alzheimer’s disease affect the synapses in the brain, it also attacks the hippocampus, which is the main component of memory, and new…

Alzheimer disease is a disease that robs people’s memory in other words, it destroys memory and other important mental functions. At first people have a hard time remembering recent events, and they will also forget the important people in their lives. Alzheimer disease usually occurs to elderly people, but symptoms begin to develop in the mid 60’s. People with Alzheimer disease will develop dementia. Dementia is a persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury…

The removal of the hippocampus in Henry Molaise (HM) has taught us a lot about memory. Because he was suffering from a massive amount of epileptic seizures, it was no wonder that he agreed to the surgery to gain some relief that drugs could not provide him. Understanding of the hippocampus was in its infancy in 1953 (Kalat, 2016). After the removal of his hippocampus, to a great extent, his seizures reduced radically, however, it impacted the use of his short-term and long-term memory. He…

Film Analysis 3 Zachary Ellison In the film The Alzheimer’s project we were able to see how people with Alzheimer’s behave, and some new research findings on the disease. Unfortunately as of now the disease is not curable. Though I was able to see the disease in action in this film I know absolutely nothing about it ,so throughout this paper, I will explore what goes on with someone who has Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia ( a decrease in mental ability…

With an annual incidence of 5 per 1000 persons, the lumbosacral radicular syndrome caused by a lumbar disk herniation (LDH) is a frequently observed problem 13. The most important symptom is lumbosacral radicular leg pain following a dermatomal pattern from below the knee till the feet and toes. The pain worsens with coughing. Other clinical findings may include unilateral spasm of the paraspinal muscles, gait deformity, limited forward flexion and sensory deficits such as muscle weakness and…

In the case of idiopathic or constitutional epilepsy there is no neurologic abnormality and no specific cause can be identified. Seizures usually begin between five and twenty years of age, but they may start later in life. In the case of symptomatic epilepsy we know the causes. These might vary on a wide range. The most common causes are congenital abnormalities and perinatal injuries, metabolic disorders (withdrawal from alcohol, or drugs, uremia, hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia), trauma, tumors…

Parkinson's disease, also abbreviated as “PD”, is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects a person's nervous system, making them have trouble moving. A human has certain kinds of nerve cells in the brain called dopamine, these cells transmit and send signals to the brain allowing a person to control their movement. When these cells start breaking down and having problems, they cause a person to lose their control of movement, due to the lack of dopamine. PD is not a communicable disease – it…

Overview Optic neuritis is the term used when there is inflammation in the optic nerve, which is the bunch of nerve fibers tasked with transmitting visual information to the brain. A rare condition, it is most commonly associated with multiple sclerosis in that it can possibly be an early indication of the disorder. It is also often related to neuromyelitis optica, which is a condition similar to MS in that it causes an inflammation of the spinal cord and optic nerve. It is not yet known what…

In 1906, Alois Alzheimer described the pathological features of presenile dementia. He noted the presence of military foci (Plaques) and fibrils in the brain of one of his cases, although he was not the first to describe the clinical features nor was he the first to describe the plaques. He was, however, the first to describe the fibrils. This disease was named after him by his senior colleague because of his statement that he was describing a new disease entity. (Hardy 2006).…