Alzheimer's Biological Features
Discuss the relationship between the cognitive and biological features of Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative condition which is associated with the progressive loss of neurons and nerve cells, this causes people to lose their cognitive abilities such as their memory and their personalities begin to change. This is due to the fact that the disease pervades most areas of the brain. However the developing pattern of damage varies for each individual meaning each person with the disease may have their own set of complex difficulties and experiences which are unique to them. Each area of our brain is responsible for different skills and abilities and the changes in memory, behaviour and thoughts
experienced …show more content…
Another study was conducted focusing on the link between Alzheimer’s disease and neuronal loss particularly in the cerebellum. The purkinje cell (PC) density was measured in the vermis and cerebellar hemispheres and neurons were counted in the inferior olivary nucleus. It was recorded that
PC numbers were significantly lower in participants with Alzheimer’s disease compared to those in the control. When looking at the numbers of neurons in the inferior olivary nucleus, there were similarly fewer but there was no significant difference. There was also clear severe molecular layer gliosis and atrophy in the vermis of the Alzheimer’s participants.
These results are reflected in the explanations of symptoms found in relations to Alzheimer’s disease. Braak, (1989), Li, (1994), Sjobeck and Englund, (2001), Wang, (2002) & Wegiel,
(1999).
Our Central Nervous System (CNS) is a complex system composed of the spinal cord …show more content…
Genetic factors may be mutations of specific chromosomes which can cause abnormal production of proteins and beta amyloid. Whereas, the idea of Alzheimer’s disease being completely related to biological factors presents the idea of it forming in conjunction with oxidation damage from free radicals randomly oxidizing important structures within neurons or it being linked with other alike diseases, Rodgers ( 2002). Alzheimer’s is a harrowing disease which effects the
CNS, diminishing the personalities of sufferers and eliminating their simple cognitive abilities causing distress and hurt to themselves and those close. Though it works through complicated processes that escape scientists understanding, they discover more every day, improving medications that will hopefully be approved as treatment for the disease.
Even though no one has yet discovered a cure, several treatments diminish symptoms and each day scientists are brought closer to that illusive day when they will be able to prevent or cure this disease.
Word count
Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative condition which is associated with the progressive loss of neurons and nerve cells, this causes people to lose their cognitive abilities such as their memory and their personalities begin to change. This is due to the fact that the disease pervades most areas of the brain. However the developing pattern of damage varies for each individual meaning each person with the disease may have their own set of complex difficulties and experiences which are unique to them. Each area of our brain is responsible for different skills and abilities and the changes in memory, behaviour and thoughts
experienced …show more content…
Another study was conducted focusing on the link between Alzheimer’s disease and neuronal loss particularly in the cerebellum. The purkinje cell (PC) density was measured in the vermis and cerebellar hemispheres and neurons were counted in the inferior olivary nucleus. It was recorded that
PC numbers were significantly lower in participants with Alzheimer’s disease compared to those in the control. When looking at the numbers of neurons in the inferior olivary nucleus, there were similarly fewer but there was no significant difference. There was also clear severe molecular layer gliosis and atrophy in the vermis of the Alzheimer’s participants.
These results are reflected in the explanations of symptoms found in relations to Alzheimer’s disease. Braak, (1989), Li, (1994), Sjobeck and Englund, (2001), Wang, (2002) & Wegiel,
(1999).
Our Central Nervous System (CNS) is a complex system composed of the spinal cord …show more content…
Genetic factors may be mutations of specific chromosomes which can cause abnormal production of proteins and beta amyloid. Whereas, the idea of Alzheimer’s disease being completely related to biological factors presents the idea of it forming in conjunction with oxidation damage from free radicals randomly oxidizing important structures within neurons or it being linked with other alike diseases, Rodgers ( 2002). Alzheimer’s is a harrowing disease which effects the
CNS, diminishing the personalities of sufferers and eliminating their simple cognitive abilities causing distress and hurt to themselves and those close. Though it works through complicated processes that escape scientists understanding, they discover more every day, improving medications that will hopefully be approved as treatment for the disease.
Even though no one has yet discovered a cure, several treatments diminish symptoms and each day scientists are brought closer to that illusive day when they will be able to prevent or cure this disease.
Word count