Alzheimer 's And Alzheimer Dementia

Throughout this line of study, Alzheimer’s disease is a specific form of dementia. According to Alzheimer’s Association, dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability that is severe enough to hinder daily life. Memory loss is a symptom of dementia and the most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s. One of the most common and severe symptom of Alzheimer’s is difficulty remembering newly learned information. The changes of Alzheimer’s normally begin in the part of the brain that affects learning (Overview Alzheimer's Association). Some other symptoms of Alzheimer’s include gradual memory loss, the decline in capability to carry out everyday tasks and the loss of their language skills. According to Bialystok the rate of

During the onset of the disease, symptoms are usually non-existant, and progress slowly over the course of many years, often going unnoticed until they become more severe. Alzheimer's is somewhat difficult to diagnose, but there are some common symptoms to all patients. Memory loss occurs in all patients. The person may have trouble remembering small things such as phone numbers, or where he/she put the keys. Eventually, short term memory is lost, and only memories in the far past are able to be recalled. People with Alzheimer's can become disoriented and can get lost easily when out on their own. Mood changes also occur, and the person can be easily irritated or agitated by seemingly insignificant things. Cognitive deterioration also occurs, with the person losing the ability to understand spoken language or recall the meanings of different words (Grayson, "Recognizing Alzheimer's" 1). Despite these common symptoms, making a diagnosis is difficult since Alzheimer's patientscan display the same symptoms as a head injury or depression.

The symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease include memory loss, change in behavior, and overall cognitive decline.

Writing a research paper is very difficult. Picking a topic is even harder. The topic I have chose to write about is dementia. Dementia is a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes cause by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, or personalities. This is a very personal topic for me. Researching this topic made me understand something that happen to me recently. My great-grandmother passed away May 21st, 2011. After ninety four years of a wonderful life she passed away. She was diagnosed with dementia two months before she died. You would never even think that she would have dementia. She never showed any signs of dementia besides the final days of her life. I feel like doing research on this topic

Imagine living a wonderful life, yet once someone reaches their golden years, they cannot remember their past. That is the reality of living with Alzheimer’s disease. This disease is commonly found in the elderly. This explains why people assume older people have a bad memory. Alzheimer’s does not occur in a short period of time, it typically takes months to develop. It involves gradual memory loss due to two specific protein fragments that spread to different parts of the brain killing brain cells as they go. As mentioned in the article Alzheimer’s Disease Fact Sheet (2015), Dr. Alois Alzheimer first discovered the disease by noticing something different in a woman’s brain after her death in 1906. Before her death, the woman was reported to have damaged thought processes, vocal trouble, and odd actions, so Dr. Alois decided to examine her brain where he discovered some unusual clusters of plaques and tangles (Alzheimer’s Disease Fact Sheet, 2015). The plaques and tangles initiate in the brain where memories are first formed. Over the years these two protein fragments slowly sabotage the hippocampus making memories harder to remember and develop. People who do not have the disease usually take simple memories from a few days ago for granted. On the other hand, simple memories vanish with patients who have Alzheimer’s. Some of the main characteristics of Alzheimer’s are the plaques and tangles in the brain that not only kill brain cells, but are the reason for failure of

I found the videos this week to be fascinating and thought that they were very informational. I learned a lot about the brain and how it affected by Alzheimer’s and Dementia. When comparing the brain of someone who had Alzheimer’s, to someone who did not you could see a huge difference.

Alzheimer’s and dementia are often thought of as an old age disease. Although the most commons risk factor is age but it is not the only one. Most majority of individuals do develop symptoms as elderly, but individuals that develop onset symptoms at a younger age, below 65 are said to develop early onset dementia (Lambert, M. A., Bickel, H., Prince, M., Fratiglioni, L., Von Strauss, E., Frydecka, D., & ... Reynish, E. L., 2014). Many researchers have conducted studies on the impact of cognitive disorders, such as dementia along with Alzhiemer’s, on the affects of the nonprofessional caregiver. Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t just affect the person but the affected person’s family and friends are affected as well.

Dementia is just one of the many illnesses that is plaguing older and senior Americans. Dementia and Alzheimer’s are looked at as the top two illnesses that is said to decline the health of so many.

When he dissected her brain, he discovered coiled deposits around the nerve cells, called neuritic plaques. He also discovered twisted bands of fibers, or neurofibrillary tangles, inside the nerve cell in the brain. However, even after this discovery, the disease still wasn’t recognized as a major disease until 1970, when neurological research began to expand. This degenerative brain disorder has since, been named after Dr. Alzheimer.

One of the signs that were new to me was understanding visual and spatial relationships. I did not realize that it was the lack of spatial abilities that cause Alzheimer patients to have trouble while driving. Another warning sign that was new to me, is withdrawal from work or social activities. The withdrawal is due to the fact that the individual cannot keep up with certain social situations. It is hard to identify Alzheimer’s because it can be easily confused with aging. There’s a lot of similarities between natural aging and Alzheimer’s. However, Alzheimer’s seems to be a more aggressive form of aging.

This analysis of degenerative diseases covers four main diseases in today’s world, including: Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease and Dementia. Alzheimer’s is a degenerative form of dementia that attacks neurons causing the total or partial loss of memory, thinking abilities, language skills, and basic behaviors. Parkinson’s is a progressive disease that targets the central nervous system. Generally the disease will cause tremors, loss of coordination, paralysis, and eventually death. Huntington’s is potentially the most deadly as it attacks both the central nervous system and the individual’s cognitive abilities. Huntington’s disease causes the affected to lose the ability to walk, speak, eat, think, and even how to breathe. Dementia is simply the beginning junction to all these diseases as it is the most “basic” form of degeneration of the brain. One may ask, how do these horrible diseases come to be and who may be affected? Hopefully this analysis will clarify some of these questions.

There are many different symptoms of Alzheimer’s. At first you will start to get confused more easily and forget things more often. How fast symptoms worsen is different from one person to the next. One of the symptoms is memory loss. People with Alzheimer’s will start to repeat their sentences and ask questions several times without realizing they had already said it. People will forget where they put things (example: keys, TV remote, etc,...). When Alzheimer’s gets worse, the person might start to forget who people are and what their name is.

Symptoms. Alzheimer’s disease is commonly known for the symptom of forgetfulness; however, this is not the only symptom of Alzheimer’s. There are a few common symptoms that are associated with Alzheimer’s which include memory lapses, disorientation, trouble with speaking and writing, difficulties with thinking and reasoning, struggling with decision-making and judgement, trouble planning and performing familiar tasks, and changes in personality and behavior that affect a person’s daily life. According to the Alzheimer’s Association in their article “What is Alzheimer’s?,” “The most common early symptom of Alzheimer's is difficulty remembering newly learned information because Alzheimer's changes typically begin in the part of the brain that

Generally people consider Alzheimer's disease as a normal part of aging. Nevertheless, it is abnormal. A million of people undergo of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease expands in the brain and it is a neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain cause and a pathogenesis that primary affect older adults (1). Alois Alzheimer was a German physician who discovered Alzheimer's disease in 1906. He diagnosed Auguste D. who was a patient that had a memory loss, unfounded doubt about her family, and other psychological changes.

Alzheimer's causes problems with memory, behavior, and thinking. The symptoms will get worse over time, and will disrupt the victim's life. Some of the symptoms include memory loss and confusion with time and place. Symptoms also include losing things, poor judgment, changes of mood, and a lack of interest in work and activities.