General Overview of Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is an illness that causes changes in the brain‚ primarily affecting memory and other mental abilities. Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging‚ it is a disease. Loss of memory is usually the first symptom of the disease. As the disease developments‚ the loss of reasoning ability‚ language‚ decision-making ability‚ judgment and other critical skills make day-to-day living impossible without help from others‚ most often a family member
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Alzheimer’s Disease by: Michael Sang Introduction to Alzheimer’s Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain. It is first described by the German neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915) in 1905. This disease worsens with advancing age‚ although there is no evidence that it is cause by the aging process. The average life expectancy of a person with the disease is between five and ten years‚ but some patients today can live up to 15 years due to improvements
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DATA TABLES: DISEASE LESSON 1 Lesson 1: Step 1 Population Number Starting Number of Contagious People Sick Days Reported Contagious Contagion Rate Prediction 200 5 60 5 5 Simulation Run 1 600 3 51 0 0 Simulation Run 2 600 3 85 0 1 Simulation Run 3 600 3 28 0 0 Lesson 1: Step 2 Population Number Population Density Starting Number of Contagious People Sick Days Reported Contagious Contagion Rate Prediction 1 (low) 125 Low 5 90 250 1.5 Simulation Run 1 200 Low 3 340 2 1.7 Simulation
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LAB ONE: Exercise 4 – Endocrine System Activity 1: Metabolism and Thyroid Hormone Part 1: 1. The normal rat had the fastest basal metabolic rate. 2. The metabolic rates differed between the normal rat and the surgically altered rats because the surgically altered rats didn’t have a thyroid or pituitary gland and therefore‚ the normal rat had a faster basal metabolic rate. The results turned out to be the way I predicted them to be. 3. T3 and T4 would be missing in the animal’s blood
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Topic: Thyroid diseases General Purpose: To inform Specific purpose: To inform readers of the dangers and results of a thyroid disease. Central Idea: The thyroid controls so many things in your body and if not well taken care of can cause major damage to a person or their life. INTRODUCTION: Attention Getter: One of the most unknown body parts in the human body is the thyroid gland. It can also develop two of the worst diseases. Credibility Statement: Your thyroid controls so much in
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Pathophysiology. Thyroid hormones assume a vital role in the normal functioning of the body. Insufficiency in secretion from their source to respond to body needs in the body risks infection of hypothyroidism. They are secreted by the thyroid glands which are located in a close-range to the trachea between the cricoid cartilage and suprasternal notch where they possess two joined lobes by an isthmus. In addition‚ the thyroid hormones are inconclusive of triodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) that
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ST.JOSEPH’S CO-ED SCHOOL PROJECT ON BIOLOGY HORMONAL DISORDER OF THYROID GLAND CERTIFICATE This is to certify that SIDDHI AGRAWAL of class XI A Has completed a project in biology on the topic HORMONAL DISORDER: THYROID in the session 2012-13 under the guidance of DEVAMITA TEACHER as per the CBSE guidelines ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I SIDDHI AGRAWAL express my
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CJD Disease The Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease is a rare brain disorder that is fatal. Reseachers find about one case of CJD disease per million each year.CJD can effect anyone‚ this disease effects both males and females of different ethnic groups usually between the ages of 50-75 .This disease causes progressive dementia and neuromuscular problems. Researchers still don’t know for sure what agent causes the Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease‚ it is a topic that has been debated about. It was first thought
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Introduction A communicable disease is a disease that is transmitted through direct contact with an infected individual or indirectly through a vector. It is also called a contagious disease (Communicable Disease ‚ 2010). Communicable diseases can be spread very easy and they can range anywhere from a cold to anthrax. I will be discussing the communicable disease chlamydia and how it affects the person as well as everything around them. Awareness about communicable disease is going to be the biggest
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Chronic Kidney Disease BIO 105‚ sec M02 Prof. Palanca Ayo Powell (Term Paper) 3/25/12 The Kidney is one of the most important organs in the human body. Its primary function is the removal of waste & toxins from the blood stream. So if the kidney stopped working correctly and is no longer able to properly function that would lead to serious problems. Blood is no longer being cleaned. The waste and the toxins aren’t being removed. Instead it’s all building up in the blood stream causing
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