In [14] Guy M. McKhann‚ demonstrated criteria for all-cause dementia and for AD dementia. A team was assigned by The National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer’s Association for reviving the 1984 judgement criteria for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) dementia. The team’s aim was to keep a check that the revised factors of judgement would be desirable enough to be incorporated by both general healthcare providers without the intervention of neuropsychological testing‚ advanced imaging‚ and cerebrospinal
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Tay-Sachs Disease? Tay-Sachs disease is a fatal genetic lipid storage disorder in which harmful quantities of a fatty substance called ganglioside GM2 build up in tissues and nerve cells in the brain. The condition is caused by insufficient activity of an enzyme called beta-hexosaminidase A that catalyzes the biodegradation of acidic fatty materials known as gangliosides. Gangliosides are made and biodegraded rapidly in early life as the brain develops. Infants with Tay-Sachs disease appear to
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Heart disease‚ also known as the “silent killer”‚ is one of the most common causes of death worldwide‚ though many people live with this disease for many years without knowing it. Types of heart diseases include coronary artery disease‚ cardiomyopath‚ valvular heart disease‚ pericardial disease‚ and congenital heart disease. The most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is when the arteries that supplies blood for the heart muscle gradually hardens
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PARKINSON’S DISEASE NAME: INSTITUTION: Introduction Parkinson ’s disease is a regarded as a common neurodegenerative condition. The etiology of the disease has not completely been understood‚ but the condition has been associated with a confluence of factors. The first is the loss of a number of neurotransmitters‚ most notably dopamine that produces neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra. It has also been linked to the combined effects of environmental exposures and aging
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Lou Gehrig’s Disease Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ or otherwise known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The motor neurons navigate from the brain to the spinal cord‚ and then move onto the muscles through out the body. Lou Gehrig’s disease is a fatal disease with no cure. This disease was given its name from a major league baseball player Lou Gehrig‚ who played for the New York Yankees. Lou suffered from this
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Disease in the Middle Ages There were more than 13 different diseases and illnesses ranging from rashes and boils to Leprosy and the Plague in the lifetime of the middle ages. As more people came into communities the more the diseases formed and spread around. Also these were part of an everyday life for men and women in that time period. Usually when people think of the Middle Ages they automatically think of the Plague‚ but there are so much more than just that like Leprosy‚ Typhus‚ and
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Long-Term Disease Cost Disease in the world is always on the rise. There is always a “new flu” out or another shot added on your list of what you don’t want to get. Health care is‚ and always will be the number one focus in the world. People are always getting sick‚ and we are constantly on the search for cures. Although‚ one thing people forget to realize‚ is how much all this adds up to be. When you are diagnosed with a long-term disease‚ there is no easy way around medical bills‚ and hospital
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Common Age Related Eye Diseases As we age‚ many things change‚ and not all of them change for the better. Age-related eyes diseases are some of these less than positive changes. Among the most common of these ailments are macular degeneration‚ cataracts‚ diabetic retinopathy‚ glaucoma‚ presbyopia‚ and dry eye. While dry eye and presbyopia are not diseases‚ per se‚ they do cause numerous problems in seniors‚ and dry eye syndrome is linked to many other age-related diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis
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Project Periodontitis and Heart Disease Andrea Wilson University of Arkansas-Fort Smith Abstract According to the American Heart Association‚ cardiovascular disease and heart disease are used interchangeably. Cardiovascular disease is a disease that is associated with the heart and blood vessels. There are many different types of heart diseases and they all include a variety of problems. Periodontal disease is a complex chronic inflammatory disease that results in the loss of connective
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Everyone needs oxygen to breathe‚ but people who have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) find it difficult to cycle oxygen into the lungs. This respiratory system block is sometimes mistaken as just a bad cough or a result of old age‚ but it can be a lot more deadly than people may think. COPD develops through stages instead of affecting a person all at once like more common diseases do‚ making it hard to detect in the beginning.This disturbance in the lungs usually only happens to people
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