Capstone (Alzheimer's vs. Dementia)
Are Alzheimer’s and Dementia really the same thing?
Aysha Culliver
December 13, 2012
5th Period
Woodward
Purpose I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wander to myself. Who are they then? –Bob DeMarco. What is Alzheimer 's disease?
Alzheimer 's disease is a disease that slowly and little by little destroys brain cells. It is neither transmittable nor contagious, but is the single most common cause of dementia. A condition that affects about 10 percent of those aged over 65 and about 20 percent of those aged over 75.
In the UK, up to 750 000 people suffer from dementia, costing billions of pounds mostly for institutional care, and causing countless distress and upset to the careers and relatives of patients.
What is dementia?
Dementia is the term used to describe a general decline in all areas of mental ability. The symptoms involve worsening in cognitive processes memory, language, thinking and so on. With important repercussions on behavior. About 50 per cent of people with dementia are suffering from Alzheimer 's disease, about 20 percent from vascular dementia caused by blockages in the supply of blood to the brain, and about 20 percent from lower body dementia characterized by tiny spherical deposits in the brain.
Only about 10 percent of dementia cases are treatable or potentially reversible. Being caused by illnesses such as vitamin B12 deficiency, a brain tumor, syphilis, alcohol dependence or a subdural hematoma.
Usually, demanding illnesses were divided into presenile under 65 years of age at onset and senile over 65 years. Although this is now seen as rather an illogical division, it has helped in the search for genes that might underlie early-onset Alzheimer 's.
Technical Information
Who discovered it?
Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), who first describe the disease, was a German psychiatrist and pathologist. In 1906, he approved an autopsy on the brain of a
Aysha Culliver
December 13, 2012
5th Period
Woodward
Purpose I often hear people say that a person suffering from Alzheimer’s is not the person they knew. I wander to myself. Who are they then? –Bob DeMarco. What is Alzheimer 's disease?
Alzheimer 's disease is a disease that slowly and little by little destroys brain cells. It is neither transmittable nor contagious, but is the single most common cause of dementia. A condition that affects about 10 percent of those aged over 65 and about 20 percent of those aged over 75.
In the UK, up to 750 000 people suffer from dementia, costing billions of pounds mostly for institutional care, and causing countless distress and upset to the careers and relatives of patients.
What is dementia?
Dementia is the term used to describe a general decline in all areas of mental ability. The symptoms involve worsening in cognitive processes memory, language, thinking and so on. With important repercussions on behavior. About 50 per cent of people with dementia are suffering from Alzheimer 's disease, about 20 percent from vascular dementia caused by blockages in the supply of blood to the brain, and about 20 percent from lower body dementia characterized by tiny spherical deposits in the brain.
Only about 10 percent of dementia cases are treatable or potentially reversible. Being caused by illnesses such as vitamin B12 deficiency, a brain tumor, syphilis, alcohol dependence or a subdural hematoma.
Usually, demanding illnesses were divided into presenile under 65 years of age at onset and senile over 65 years. Although this is now seen as rather an illogical division, it has helped in the search for genes that might underlie early-onset Alzheimer 's.
Technical Information
Who discovered it?
Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915), who first describe the disease, was a German psychiatrist and pathologist. In 1906, he approved an autopsy on the brain of a
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