Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodenerative disorder of the brain that causes memory loss and is the most common form of dementia. Alzheimer’s affects about four million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Although mostly everyone that has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s has the same symptoms- there are three different types of the disease. Early-onset Alzheimer’s happens to those who are under the age of 65‚ Moderate Alzheimer’s is the most common form of the
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older adults who suffer with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer is an irreversible cognitive memory loss disease that is currently the leading cause of dementia. The disease is said to be more common on adult in their mid 60’s however early signs of the disease have been identified on individuals has young as 30. Memory loss‚ unpredictable behavior and abnormal language problems are just some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s‚ a person with advance stages of the disease are totally depended on others. They
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A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. There are four main types of disease: pathogenic disease‚ deficiency disease‚ hereditary disease‚ and physiological disease. Pathogenic diseases are caused by what is called a pathogen. Pathogens are parasitic organisms that cause disease in their host. For example the pathogen e.coli which can make people ill or kill them. Deficiency diseases are caused by a deficiency of a particular nutrient in the diet. A lack of vitamin
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Memories are something that can not be taken from us‚ but what happens as we get older? As time goes by we begin to struggle due to losing memory. When Alzheimer’s Disease is mentioned‚ we often think about older people which make sense‚ because Alzheimer’s Disease symptoms begin before age 65 (Prevent and Reverse). Alzheimer’s Disease is a type of dementia that involves memory loss and causes problems with thinking and behavior that starts off calm but gets constantly worse. People who live with
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introduction Non-infectious diseases (also called Non-communicable diseases) are those diseases that are not caused by a pathogen and cannot be shared from one person to another. Disease caused by these organisms are infectious diseases. There are many kinds of non-infectious diseases. Non-infectious diseases may be caused by either the environment‚ nutritional deficiencies‚ lifestyle choices‚ or genetic inheritances. Unlike infectious diseases‚ non-infectious diseases are not communicable or contagious
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Coronary Heart Disease Heart diseases are one of the most killing diseases in the United States‚ where there are more than half a million people die of a hteart the disease every year. That is a 1 in every 4 deaths‚ which is a very huge number. (wc) About 370 thousands of these people die of the most killing type which is the coronary heart disease. (1) Since the coronary heart disease is very common nowadays‚ people should be educated on what exactly it is and how it happens‚ its risk
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Diana Beharry PSY350: Physiological Psychology Alzheimer’s Disease Professor Candice Ward March 20‚ 2011 Introduction In 1901‚ a fifty one year old woman named Frau Auguste D. was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt‚ Germany. She had an unusual bunch of symptoms. While she had no history of prior psychiatric illness‚ her husband had noticed that Frau D. was becoming increasing paranoid‚ hallucinatory‚ agitated‚ disoriented‚ and having increasing difficulties with language functions
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Dementia is a term used for over 130 diseases that effect memory‚ behaviour and motor skills. Causes of these diseases may vary but are largely caused by the presence of ’plaques’ and ’tangles’ on the neurons in the brain. Plaques are proteins that the body can no longer break down which causes a build up‚ they get between the neurons and confuses message transmissions. The tangles are the proteins inside neurons that become abnormal. In Korsakoff’s disease long term abuse of alcohol is usually
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Shider Alzheimer’s Disease B398: Brain Mechanisms and Behavior 29 April 2010 ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disease that is the most common form of dementia (Alzheimer’s Association‚ 2010). Alzheimer’s disease counts for approximately 65 % of all dementias. Alzheimer’s disease affects one’s memory and allows them to forget important information that happened throughout their lifetime. Alzheimer’s disease is also called Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) and just
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Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s is an irreversible‚ unexplained disease. It slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and‚ eventually it destroys the ability to carry out simple tasks. Most people with the Alzheimer’s start experiencing symptoms in their early 60s. The disease was named after Dr. Alois Alzheimer. In 1906 Dr. Alzheimer had a patient that died of an unknown mental illness. Before she died she had memory loss‚ language problems‚ and unpredictable behavior. After she died Dr. Alzheimer found
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