Lyme Disease: Mechanisms of Disease – A Patient Conversation Lyme Disease: Mechanisms of Disease – A Patient Conversation Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that spreads throughout the body from the bite of a tick. Lyme disease is a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi (B. burgdorferi) and the body’s immune response to the infection (Meyerhoff‚ 2013). Ticks pick up B. burgdorferi from another host such as deer or mice; they then transfer it to humans (Lyme disease‚ n.d.). B burgdorferi
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ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE I can recall my grandmother when I was a child; she was nice‚ happy‚ and could always remember stories about her younger years and even everyone in our family’s birthday. All of that changed one day though‚ my grandmother was at home about three years ago when all of the sudden she had a miniature stroke attack. Physically she was fine after the attack; but mentally she was not well. The miniature strokes had triggered a horribly devastating disease called Alzheimer’s disease.
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Parkinson Disease Parkinson’s disease is a progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects movement. The most well-known sign of Parkinson disease is the tremor in just one hand. Family can notice that you have Parkinson disease when there’s little expression in your face and you don’t swing your arms when you walk. Speech often becomes soft and mumbling. Parkinson disease symptoms tend to worsen as the disease progresses. There are many different medicines that treat this disease‚ but sometimes
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Celiac disease is starting to become more common to people. Although it is becoming more common most people mistaken it for a food allergy to gluten which it is not. It is a genetic autoimmune disorder. The difference between an allergy and an autoimmune disorder is that an allergic reaction can most often be taken care of with medicine or an epi pen of some sort and within a few hours you are fine or feeling a lot better. With an autoimmune disorder the effects last for days and up to years depending
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Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease Medicine has made great progress in the 2oth century but still not all diseases can be cured. Two such diseases are Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease. In this essay I will discuss the similarities and differences of these two diseases and describe some of the symptoms. First‚ there are only two similarities between the diseases. Both of them are caused by genetics. This means that some people are more likely to get the diseases than other people are
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Running head: ADDISON ’S DISEASE 1 Addison ’s Disease ADDISON ’S DISEASE 2 Abstract Addison ’s disease is a disorder that occurs when a person ’s adrenal glands produce insufficient amounts of certain hormones. When Addison ’s diseased was first discovered the endocrine system was not yet completely
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What is Graves’ disease? Graves’ disease is an autoimmune disease which causes the thyroid gland to be put into overdrive. Graves’ disease can have an effect on the body‚ causing problems with the eyes‚ skin‚ create goiters‚ and several other symptoms. Little is known about what exactly causes Graves’ disease‚ like many other autoimmune disorders. On the contrary‚ it is known who is susceptible to Graves’ disease. As for where Graves’ disease occurs there are two main areas that are being effected;
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My fellow scientists‚ I am writing this report to inform you all of a highly dangerous‚ fatal disease that is beginning to make a resurgence in society. This disease is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease‚ or CJD. While CJD is still considered rare due to its relatively low infection rate‚ it is still critical nonetheless that we and the public be informed of this disease and the devastating effects it can have. CJD is caused by a prion‚ or a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). Prions are
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In 1872‚ George Huntington wrote about a disease that he and his family was suffering from. Symptoms included slurred speech‚ involuntary or slowed movement‚ and compulsive emotions and feelings. Today‚ it is known that this disease is a genetic disease affecting the brain‚ caused by the mutation of chromosome number 4‚ in which the codon CAG repeats over 40 times‚ contrary to the normal 10 to 26 times. Though it is unknown as to why this repetition causes such effect on the brain‚ scientists have
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Media Critique of Huntington’s Disease There are a lot of different books‚ movies and TV shows that portray neuropsychological disorders. The popular show House M.D. showed the audience so many cases of different diseases that give an interesting knowledge to the viewers. Sometimes it is real life cases‚ but most of the time it is imagination of the screenwriters. Each episode is different and was not focused for a long time on one specific disease except Huntington’s. Dr. Hadley (Olivia Wild)
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