Tuberous sclerosis

Many people have heard of, or participated in, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge but many people fail to realize what ALS is. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease is a motor neuron disease that causes degeneration of neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is not a single disease, but a clinical diagnosis for many different pathophysiologic diseases that share a common factor of progressive loss of motor neurons and break down of the motor neuron system. ALS is known by…

In the chapter the third Tuesday we talked about regrets of the story Tuesday with Morrie written by Mitch Albom, The theme is don't regret things that you can't change. The book states, “I want to remember what we talked about, I told morrie. I want to have your voice so I can listen to it... later. “When i'm dead.” dont say that” (albom 18). Death is going to happen and we can't stop it, we have memories, pictures and videos but we can't reverse death. It's going to come no matter what and all…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more formally known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disease, causing the selective degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons, as well as those in the motor cortex portion of the brain, which ultimately leads to the limited to complete loss of all voluntary muscle function. Now while the main pathology of ALS is the selective death of the previously mentioned motor neurons, more recent studies have suggested that the homeostatic…

The Incident Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. This disease causes the brain to lose control of muscle movement and eventually leads to paralysis and death ("What Is ALS?," n.d.). College baseball player Pete Frates, who was diagnosed with ALS in March of 2012, came up with a way of spreading awareness of the disease (Gallo 2014). The challenge…

affects thousands of people a year. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is neurodegenerative disease, the causes of ALS remain a mystery, and ALS also has wide range of symptoms, not much treatment is available, and new studies are performed daily involving ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or “Lou Gehrig’s disease” is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord (What is ALS, Nov 30, 2014). Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a rapidly progressive disease that…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, better yet known as A.L.S is a rare, worldwide disease. This neurodegenerative disease can affect any one. Although terminal, it is possible for one to still yet appreciate the rest of their days in life. Dudley Clendinen expresses this in his article "The Good Short Life". Reporter and Editor, Clendinen published this article July of 2011. Like all his other work, it was placed in "The New York Times." Dudley Clendinen lived his last years with A.L.S. The tone of…

Detachment Life lessons come from places you less expect, a book, newspaper, a simple message on a wall or a youtube video, Mitch Albom tells us a story about his “Coach” in the book Tuesdays with Morrie a book full of real life scenarios that shows how to face problems in life. The characters of this book are Morrie schwartz is a Sociology professor, Mitch Albom is the author, Charlotte Schwartz is Morrie’s wife and others are Morrie’s mom ,David and Connell. Morrie’s definition and detachment…

Morrie Schwartz Every year, more than 5,600 people are diagnosed with ALS, but unlike most people, Morrie Schwartz was able to keep changing people’s lives around him dispite his condition. Morrie Schwartz was a sociology professor at Brandeis University and an author. Morrie was a very unique and fun loving person up untill his death on November 4, 1995. He was well liked by everyone of his students and peers, such as Mitch Albom, who wrote a book about Morrie after his death. Morrie was a…

Anyone can look around and see how in society people only care about the latest fashion trend or the newest electronics and so on. The culture today doesn’t focus on what is really important such as the people close to them or how to fulfill their lives with love. The book Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom is a memoir on Morrie, Mitch’s college professor. Morrie has ALS disease, and Mitch is doing his best to be there for him, for he never visited him after college because of his busy life as…

Commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease where the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord die (Harmon, 2012). Diagnosis generally occurs after age fifty and from that point, the patient generally has three to five years until his/her motor neurons controlling the diaphragm die, resulting in death by asphyxiation (Al-Chalabi et al., 2014; “Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis,” n.d.). An anomaly to this generalization is Stephen…