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    Alzheimers Disease

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    Alzheimers Disease What is Alzheimers Disease? The most common form of dementing illness‚ Alzheimers Disease (AD) is a progressive‚ degenerative disease that attacks the brain‚ causing impaired memory‚ thinking and behavior. The person with AD may experience confusion‚ personality and behavior changes‚ impaired judgment‚ and difficulty finding words‚ finishing thoughts or following directions. It eventually leaves its victims incapable of caring for themselves. What happens to the brain in Alzheimers

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    Huntington's Disease

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    Huntington’s Disease Huntington’s disease‚ also known as Huntington’s chorea is a genetic disorder that usually shows up in someone in their thirties and forties‚ destroys the mind and body and leads to insanity and death within ten to twenty years. The disease works by degenerating the ganglia (a pair of nerve clusters deep in the brain that controls movement‚ thought‚ perception‚ and memory) and cortex by using energy incorrectly. The brain will starve the neurons (brain cells)‚ and sometimes

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    Re-emerging and emerging diseases especially those related to viruses all through history have comprised of the most feared plagues of the past. Although new infections continue to emerge today‚ many of the old plagues are still with us. (1) “Emerging” diseases can be defined as diseases / infections that have newly appeared in a population or have existed but are quickly increasing in geographic range or incidence. Among recent examples are Lyme disease‚ Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome‚ HIV/AIDS

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    Hirschsprung’s Disease

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    Hirschsprung’s Disease Hirschsprung’s Disease was named after Harold Hirschsprung‚ a Danish physician‚ in 1886. It is a congenital disorder which means it is present at birth. It is an enlargement of the colon where ganglion cells‚ or nerve cells‚ are not present. This results in improper movement of the muscles in the bowel causing chronic constipation. The only certain method of diagnosis is a rectal biopsy. We will explore the symptoms‚ causes‚ and treatments of this disease. The severity

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    Alzheimers Disease.

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    Abstract The following paper focuses on Alzheimer’s disease‚ the disease which is a devastating brain disease and is one of the most typical forms of dementia‚ a general term that is most commonly used for memory loss and the diminishing in mental and physical abilities. It is most frequently diagnosed in the elderly although there have been some cases of the disease affecting people of middle age. There is not one known single cause for Alzheimer ’s‚ however‚ scientists believe that due to the

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    Lyme Disease

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    Chronic Lyme Disease Whitney Everhart BCOMM/275 June 30‚ 2013 Jim Parkinson Chronic Lyme Disease Chronic Lyme disease has been a controversial topic for many years. Researchers are in between opinions to determine if this disease really does exist. Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that passes to the tick’s host once it has latched on and started feeding. The disease goes into the host’s blood and implants a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. This type of bacterium is from the spirochete

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    Alzheimer's Disease

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    Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s Disease is a progressive neurological disease; it often attacks the brain tissues causing memory loss of one’s identity and regular behaviors. Statistics indicates that the rate of predicted people to get Alzheimer’s will increase briskly as time goes on. There are currently no cures for such disastrous disease‚ but there are currently approved treatments available that can help people within the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Once the disease is too far along

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    Huntington's Disease

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    Description Huntington disease is a hereditary disease that causes the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain. Huntington disease‚ or hereditary chorea‚ has an extensive impact on a person ’s functional abilities and usually results in movement‚ perceptive and psychiatric disorders (Walker‚ 2007). It is named after the American physician George Huntington‚ who provided one of the first descriptions of the disease in 1872 (Huntington‚ 1872). The disease causes nerve cells in the brain to die which

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    Tay-Sachs Disease

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    A rare and fatal disease‚ Tay-Sachs is characterized as one of the devastating neurodegenerative disease. Children afflicted with Tay-Sachs “lose motor skills and mental functions” eventually becoming “blind‚ deaf‚ mentally retarded‚ paralyzed...Tay-Sachs children usually die by age five” (“Tay-Sachs Disease”). A diagnosis of infantile Tay-Sachs is akin to a death sentence; the only form of care would be comfort for death. Tay-Sachs is passed on genetically from parent to child and‚ as it is an autosomal

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    Morgellons Disease

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    Morgellons‚ founded in children by Sir Thomas Browne in 1674 is based on the information of a small fiber producing condition. Studies have been shown that most cases of Morgellons Disease found in the United States are found in areas such as California‚ Texas‚ and Florida. This disease has occurred in all 50 states. Worldwide‚ Morgellons has been a serious problem in Europe‚ South Africa‚ Japan‚ The Philippines‚ Indonesia and Australia. Adults and Children are both equally diagnosed with Morgellons

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