Alzheimer Disease Jonathan Durichek 10/18/2012 Definition: Alzheimer disease is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain that causes impairment of memory and dementia manifested by confusion, visual-spatial disorientation, impairment of language function progressing from anomia to fluent aphasia, inability to calculate, and deterioration of judgment; delusions and hallucinations may occur. The most common degenerative brain disorder, AD makes up 70% of all cases of dementia. Onset is
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Using Caenorhabditis elagans to Investigate Oxidative Stress in Parkinson’s disease Abstract Oxidative stress is thought to play a part in the advancement and progression of neurodegenerative disorders. Despite the fact that it is at present considered a trademark of such procedures, the intertwining of a multitude of signaling cascades deters the complete comprehension of the direct role played by oxidative stress in neurodegeneration. Notwithstanding its broad use as a model used for aging, a few
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What interests me somehow is the gradual memory lost that some elderly people go through in the course of life span and would like to share with the class. To properly appreciate and understand the contrast and the differences between dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), it’s important to put these definitions into proper context. Berger (2010) defines dementia as “Irreversible loss of intellectual functioning caused by organic brain damage or disease”. He explained that dementia is generally
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Core adjustment process of caregivers The adjustment process to illness situation is usually a process of coping (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). That process comprises a sequence of different stages. People suffering from neurological disorders, such as dementia, often commence their adjustment process with an awareness of their illness and loss of function in their usual lives (Ownsworth & Gracey, 2010), followed by the stage of appraisal of what happens to them (Dröes et al., 2010; Finnema et al.,
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In the year 1817, a man named James Parkinson diagnosed the disease once known as ‘shaking palsy,’ as Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is a central nervous system disorder that affects around 1.5 million people in America alone. James Parkinson was a doctor in London where he wrote a paper about the symptoms of Parkinson. Symptoms for Parkinson’s disease are tremors, rigidity, bradykinesia, and postural instability. Usually these symptoms are caused in result of degeneration of nerve cells
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Lou Gehrig’s disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, commonly known as ALS, is a neurodegenerative disease that attacks the nerve cells within the brain and spinal cord very quickly. This disease is named after Lou Gehrig, the famous baseball player, who suffered from it as well. Studies show that one can learn what Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is, understand how it affects the body, and gather the information about treatments to help with the symptoms of this disease. This disease causes weakness
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Dementia are usually diagnosed clinically from the history of the patients, relatives and from the clinical observations, based on the presence of characteristics neurological and neuropsychological features and the absence of alternative conditions. computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography and single emission computed tomography are the advanced medical imaging techniques, which could be used to help and exclude other cerebral pathology or subtypes of the dementia
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Before I worked at the Children’s Center, I was an aid at a small town nursing home. From my experience with that job, I would have to say many of the residents in actual nursing homes, this does not include retirement homes, tended to be unable to make cognitive decisions, such as having a plan for when they pass away. These plans could include anything from being a DNR, or FULL code. In many cases, families made all the decisions for the residents. I am not in any way saying that it is wrong for
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Estimation of diabetic retinopathy with artery/vein classification in retinal images using Artificial Neural Network Leshmi Satheesh M.Tech Student,Dept. of Electronics & Communication Mohandas College of Engineering, Kerala University Trivandrum-695541, Kerala, India Email: leshmi24@gmail.com Abstract—Diabetic retinopathy is the single largest explanation for sight loss and visual impairment in eighteen to sixty five year olds . Damage of blood vessels in the eye and the formation of
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The Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a rare autoimmune with an estimated annual incidence of one case per million per year. It is characterized by painful ophthalmoplegia (weakness of the eye muscles) and is caused by an idiopathic granulomatous inflammation of the cavernous sinus. While considered a benign condition, permanent neurologic deficits can occur, and relapses are common, often requiring prolonged immunosuppressive therapy. Tolosa-Hunt syndrome must be carefully differentiated from more malignant
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