The Parkinson disease (PD) is a chronic and progressive movement disorder (it will worsen over time). There are no cure to the disease. There are five stages in “The Parkinson Disease”‚ though it is not uncommon to skip some of the stages. At the first stage the symptoms are so minimal that they’re often missed. However family and relatives might see a change in the person’s walk‚ posture or facial expression. At the second stage the symptoms are way more noticeable. The symptoms from stage one
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Huntington’s chorea‚ or more commonly known as Huntington’s disease (HD)‚ is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects both men and women. Although previously thought to be a relatively rare disease‚ new research discoveries show that it’s actually more common than not; while the onset of symptoms typically occurs in a person’s 40s and 50s‚ research has also shown that individuals in their 70s‚ 80s and even 90s have enough repeats in the HTT gene to develop mild HD symptoms. (Samson‚ 2016) Through
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UNDERSTANDING DEMENTIA INTRODUCTION Dementia is a progressive illness which occurs when the brain is damaged by disorders and diseases such as Alzheimer ’s disease‚ Huntington ’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) or a series of strokes. The term dementia is not the actual disease in its own right but is the collective term used to describe the group of related symptoms caused by the gradual death of brain cells. These symptoms include memory loss‚ problems with reasoning‚ perception‚
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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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Neuropsychological testing is a standardized procedure which quantifies and assesses brain function‚ which is expressed in overt behavior and leads to covert processes in the brain (Reynolds & Livingston‚ 2013). In simple terms‚ neuropsychology is the study of brain-behavior (Reynolds & Livingston‚ 2013). Neuropsychologists usually work alongside a neurologist to determine the functioning of sequelae of CNS dysfunction (Reynolds & Livingston‚ 2013). This test can be used for individuals who sustained
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Before discussing treatments‚ it is important to understand the general characteristics and causes of Parkinson’s. Recall that it is a progressive disorder of the central nervous system that affects the motor system and usually initiated by the slight noticeable tremor of a hand. Early stages may consist of face showing little to no expression and arms not swinging at all for motor balance during walking; decreasing ability to perform unconscious movements such as blinking and smiling. Take Greg
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) also known as Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathy (HMSN) is a genetic heterogeneous disorder with a common clinical phenotype. It’s the most common inherited neuromuscular disease‚ with there being 200‚000 cases in the EU (Pareyson and Marchesi‚ 2009). CMT is a group of diseases that affect the periphery nerves in the body‚ motor and sensory nerves are affected however in some rare cases only the motor nerves are affected; distal hereditary motor neuropathy (dHMN)
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Parkinsonism is a clinical syndrome identified by motor and non-motor symptoms such as bradykinesia‚ rigidity‚ resting tremors and failure of postural reflexes (1‚ 2). Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and the leading cause of Parkinsonism‚ which affects more than 0.1% of the population older than 40 years of age (3). Recently‚ genes associated with other neurodegenerative disorders have been screened as candidate genes for idiopathic PD (iPD) in hereditary
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Alzheimer’s dementia is a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by several brain abnormalities that are selective and only affect neurons in specific regions of the brain. This disease is characterized by a progressive decrease in neuronal activity and neuronal survival. Historically‚ researchers have used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machines to scan patients with Alzheimer’s disease and the unaffected old adults and then use supercomputers to create color-coded maps which revealed
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As the average life span continuously rises the population of the elderly also increases. This rise relates to the increase in late onset diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease which causes many functional impairments and comes with many challenges. These challenges are not only life altering for the individual but also manifest within the family. Although there are many challenges there is also an abundance of opportunities‚ adjustments and adaptions as well as new
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