Alzheimer's Disease Study

Current Trends in Slowing the Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease There are several therapies being used in Alzheimer’s care today that have been known to slow the progression of the disease. Simple things such as challenging and mentally stimulating pursuits, like crossword puzzles and trivia type activities have been shown to have positive effects on maintaining cognitive abilities for longer than those who do not. An article written by Woods, Aguirre, Spector & Orrell (2012), titled “Cognitive

The Canadian Study of Health and Aging performed a large scale cohort study to analyze risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease. In 1991, they selected 6,434 subjects aged 65 and older, all of which lived throughout the ten provinces of Canada; 4,615 were alive for the follow up study done in 1996. When the study began in 1991, all participants were cognitively normal, and filled out a questionnaire for Alzheimer’s risk factors. Five years later, the remaining participants received a screening interview

Several years ago, my grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Before her diagnosis, she was very jovial and kind to everyone. However, my family and I slowly began to notice a change in her behavior. The first thing we noticed was that she became very forgetful, which we thought at first was just age related. Then she started to become angry, stubborn and even violent. One of my cousin noticed these changes in her behavior and alerted my grandmother’s primary physician. After further

Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that destroys the brain cells. In the brain there are neurons that connect and communicate at a synapse, a structure that allows a neuron to pass an electrical or chemical signal to another cell, where tiny bursts of chemicals called neurotransmitters carry information from one cell to another. Alzheimer’s disrupts this process by eventually destroying the synapses and killing the neurons, damaging the brain’s communication network. Alzheimer’s disease is the

away from a serious disease known as Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease describes a particular health disorder, and it represents a family concern, as well. It develops slowly and get worse over time. It also can damage a patient’s memory and capacity to communicate, learn, make judgments, and do daily activities; however, it is not a normal part of aging. Because it has known that family histories and genetics' factors increase a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's, it appears to be higher

Alzheimer's disease typically develops slowly and progressively gets worse over time. It affects the brain area, including one’s memory, thinking, judgment, language, problem-solving, personality and movement (Kurz, 2012). There are five stages associated with Alzheimer's disease which include (a) preclinical Alzheimer's disease, (b) mild cognitive impairment, (c) mild dementia due to Alzheimer's, (d) moderate dementia due to Alzheimer's and (e) severe dementia due to Alzheimer's (Kurz, 2012). Looking

The suprachiasmatic nucleus, considered to be the endogenous circadian clock in the mammalian brain, shows morphological changes with aging, which become even more pronounced in Alzheimer's disease (,a~r)). l_n erdet to assess possible functional implications of these alterations, circadian rest-activity rhythms of 6 young and 13 old volunteers and of 12 AD patients were studied with a recently developed ambulatory restactivity monitor (RA24). Young and old volunteers showed no differences in ~heir

INTRODUCTION One of the strongest risk factors associated with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is alipoprotein epsilon-4 (ApoE4), particularly in late-onset sporadic and familial AD (Ghebremedhin et al., 1998; Chartier-Harlin et al., 1994; Corder et al., 1993). AD is strongly associated with two types of pathologies, amyloid-β plaque and the phosphorylated tau proteins that can often lead to neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) (Kim et al., 2009). The three alleles of ApoE (E2, E3, and E4) have been found to

The Ongoing Study of Alzheimer's Disease Article Summary Imagine your greatest fear of a loved one growing old. Could it be a fear of your dearest going through tremendous pain and suffering, or perhaps just the fear of him or her dying? Now imagine that this loved one, with whom you have shared many wonderful memories, no longer recognizes you. It kind of worries you a bit now, doesn’t it? Although Alzheimer’s disease can be very hard on those stricken and their families, do not feel

Alzheimer's Disease is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain that ultimately results in dementia, which is known as mental detoriation. Alzheimer's Disease is irreversible; it destroys memory and other important mental functions. (Smith, 2015) By knowing whom Alzheimer’s disease mostly affects makes it easier to target the disease by knowing which group it mainly targets and what we can do to help that specific group with different types of treatments. Alzheimer's Disease primarily affects