A common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS) is muscle weakness. For many years, patients with MS were told to avoid physical activity and exercise. Now it is believed that exercising with regularity can limit the deconditioning process without a triggering or exacerbation of disease symptoms or relapse (1). Because lower body weakness is common in patients with MS, exercise programs that focus on leg strength, moving ability and fatigue showed significant improvements in knee extensor and plantar
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Imagine that your nerve cells in your brain and spinal cord abruptly start to die, the cells that control the muscles that allow you to move the different parts of your body abruptly start to die. This is what it feels like when your body is afflicted by a disease called Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS, is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and was named after a famous athlete who was one of the first people to be afflicted. On Lou Gehrig’s 39th birthday, he was
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The brain is the human body's most mysterious and sophisticated organ, it is the central key of our intelligence, understanding and, emotion, along with our memory speech, senses and many more. The brain has the ability to control and shape a human’s life. Without it there would be nothing. Unfortunately there are more than 600 neurological disorders. Neurological disorders ADHD, Aneurysm ect, are some examples.1 One of the most rapid fast killing brain diseases today are the cancerous brain tumors
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Phantom limb pain is described as a, “pain that feels like it's coming from a body part that's no longer there” (“Phantom pain”). Countless patients have complained about the intense pain experienced when they have had a limb amputated. As of now there has been no cure of treatment for those experiencing phantom limb pain. Many researchers have speculated at what causes this pain in the absence of the limb and some have concluded that the pain is caused by the brain reorganizing neurons and their
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Alzheimer’s Disease is a type of dementia, a term for a decrease in mental ability that affects your memory, thinking, and behavior. Alzheimer’s Disease progressively worsens over time. The longer Alzheimer’s is in your system, the more difficult it is to do daily activities. Alzheimer’s affects about 4.5 million Americans. The majority of people that have Alzheimer’s Disease are at least 65 years old. However, Alzheimer’s is not just for the old. 5% of people with Alzheimer’s suffer from early
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Where did the name, Alzheimer's come from Sometimes called Alzheimer disease or Alzheimer's the origin of the term dates back to 1906 when Dr. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician presented a case history before a medical meeting about a 51-year-old female who suffered from a rare brain disorder. What is Alzheimer's Wikipedia says that Alzheimer's accounts for 60% to 70% of cases of dementia. It is a Neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gets worse over time. The disease and
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Parkinson’s Disease Description Parkinson’s Disease, also known as paralysis agitans, is a chronic and progressive neurological disorder that affects a person’s movement and their ability to function. What that means is that Parkinson’s is long-lasting disease with no cure that will slowly get worse over time. It affects vital cells in a movement control center located in the brain stem called substantia nigra. These cells, or neurotransmitters, are responsible for producing dopamine which regulates
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Most people in the worldwide can face to Alzheimer disease. Nowadays, the majority of elderly people can develop Alzheimer diseases. Moreover, type of young onset of dementia is also common and young people who are under the age of 65 can have dementia. Alzheimer disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. Ivan Seah Yu Jun (2014) claims, every four second someone is diagnosed with Alzheimer diseases. Alzheimer’s brain structure develops irregularities and their brain abnormalities cause neurological
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utilize water currents to evade predation, detect prey movements and navigate in various turbid oceanic habitats. Teleost fish have a lateral line, a mechanosensory system, which extends along the sides of the fish from the head to the tip of the caudal fin (Montgomery et al., 1997, p. 961). Minute movements and vibrations in the water system are sensed by neuromast cells in the lateral line (Montgomery et al., 1997, p. 962). There exists hundreds of neuromast cells in various regions of the fish in
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Thousands of neurotransmitters rush through the axon terminal, flying into the millimeter-long chasm before meeting the beckoning dendrites of the new neuron. It is the brain’s most beautiful gift: the “synaptic kiss” I am many things—an advocate, a researcher, the owner of an expansive collection of dog-eared classics. I can cook minute rice in thirty seconds and spew countless statistics on the dangers of secondhand smoke. Yet, after all my tobacco control work, the field of science had thus
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