Ingersoll Mrs. Scanavino BIO 209-S9 19 Mar. 2012 An Examination of Parkinson’s Disease and its Effects Through the study of anatomy and physiology‚ physicians have learned that Parkinson’s disease can be developed many ways‚ include many symptoms leading to diagnosis and although incurable can be treated and managed. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes‚ Parkinson’s is a disease related to the loss or underactive production of dopamine producing brain cells
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Anatomy and Physiology 2‚ SCI 136 Research Project # 40904000 Doing research on Alzheimer’s disease was very disheartening‚ just knowing what some people have to deal with on a daily basis was hard to imagine. I mean the simple definition of the disease is “progressive mental deterioration occurring in middle or old age‚ due to generalized degeneration of the brain.” As you can imagine‚ that can take a toll on someone’s emotional stability‚ which can eventually lead to depression. Most
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Parkinson’s Disease has been around since ancient times and man have been aware of the disease since then. In western Medicine a physician named Galen described Parkinson’s as “shaking palsy” in AD. 175. A thorough medical essay was published about the “shaking palsy” in 1871 by London doctor James Parkinson. The disease was named after Parkinson and his essay was called “An Essay of the Shaking Palsy.” The essay paved the way for parkinson’s and established it as medical condition. Parkinson’s
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patient intentionally moves it. This type of tremor includes Parkinson’s disease‚ multiple-systems atrophy‚ supranuclear palsy‚ and drug-induced tremor‚ each discussed in the paragraphs below. PD. PD as originally described by James Parkinson in 1817 is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder (Goetz‚ 2011). Parkinson’s disease is considered the second greatest neurodegenerative disease in elder patients‚ following Alzheimer’s disease. In the United States alone‚ nearly 1.5 million people have been diagnosed
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during the Victorian Era to one of the many fatal diseases that you could have caught. This topic is about the diseases that many British people caught in the Victorian era. Some were fatal some were bearable. Some had cures as others didn’t. It was different back then because they did not have cures for things like the flu‚ now days we do. There were many of very bad diseases out there and many of them were deadly. Smallpox like many of the other diseases in the Victorian era was very much deadly. This
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"Shaking Palsy" has been around for a very long time. Today‚ we call it Parkinsons disease. Parkinsons was mentioned in an ancient Indian medical system known as Ayurveda‚ under the name Kampavata. The name later changed to Shaking Palsy by a well known physician- Galen. He spread the idea of this common disease through Western medical literature in 175 AD. After hundreds of years‚ a London doctor‚ by the name of James Parkinson‚ wrote a very detailed essay‚ which became the first modern attempt
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The exact cause of Alzheimer disease is unknown‚ but scientists have proven that there is a strong link between Alzheimer disease and some factors such as genetic‚ environmental‚ and life style factors. Alzheimer disease not only affects the cognitive ability of the patients‚ but also it has behavioural and psychiatric impacts on the patients. In addition‚ family members and friends of the patients would be also affected. Since Alzheimer disease gradually get worse over time‚ damaged brain could
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Rosario Garcia Graves Disease Graves’ disease an immunological disorder that affects about 3 % of the population & almost 10 million people just in the United States. It is a condition where your immune system makes an antibody called TSI or thyroid stimulating immunoglobulin this causes the thyroid gland to generate too much thyroid hormone. There are many factors that play a role when someone gets Grave’ disease. There are some people that are just predisposed to Graves’ disease because of their genes
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Ageing can cause many problems for people as they get older. A particular problem‚ Alzheimer’s disease‚ can cause a person to have bad cases of memory loss. It is known that age leads to the deterioration of the brain‚ but the processes that lead to the decline of brain structures and function is unknown. To conduct an experiment on the ageing process‚ a group of scientists used Apolipoprotein E on mice. The question of the experiment is‚ “Does APOE Stabilization by exercise prevent Aging Neurovascular
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WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE IN ADULTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND HOW SHOULD MEDICINES BE USED TO REDUCE THAT ECONOMIC IMPACT? Dementia is a progressive disease that associates with memory impairment and cognitive deficit. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia. In AD‚ brain is damaged by the presence of beta-amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. There are an approximately 820‚000 people (1.3% of population) with dementia in UK. Among them‚ population
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