Friedreich's Ataxia Report

ALS is also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a disease in which the brain, nerves, and spinal cord deteriorate. It attacks every part of the body except the brain. Causing major body malfunction along with muscle weakening. Which includes lack of strength, the ability to move arms, legs and body, eventually you lose the ability to breathe. The average time of life after being diagnosed is two - five years. It was believed to be inherited or maybe an infection. After years of research scientist have found a major

Parkinson disease (PD) is one of the most common neurologic disorders. and it affects approximately 1% of individuals older than 60 years old. Parkinson’s disease is a condition that progresses slowly by treatment. In addition, loss of pigmented dopaminergic neurons of the substantianigra pars compacta and the presence of Lewy bodies and Lewyneurites are the two major neuropathologic findings in Parkinson disease (Hauser, 2016).

The condition includes those known as Pick’s Disease, Frontal Lobe Degeneration and Dementia associated with Motor Neurone disease.

What parts of the body does it affect? How common is it? Are there multiple forms/causes for developing the condition? How long can an individual survive?

FTD can affect anybody. It typically affects people at a younger age than Alzheimer’s disease, with symptoms beginning in the 50s or 60s, and sometimes younger.

This disease can cause problems with one's vision, muscle control, balance, and other essential body functions. Up until the age twenty-eight,

What is survival? The book Gabe & Izzy by Gabrielle Ford with Sarah Thomson is a perfect example of survival! Survival means to live or exist in spite of an accident, ordeal, or difficult circumstances. In this book Gabe survives a diagnosis of Friedreich’s Ataxia, which causes her to be bullied everyday at school. She also experiences the death of her dog and best friend, Izzy.

ALS and CTE’s are horrible diseases that don't have a cure and have no age requirement weather young or old. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or commonly heard as ALS means no muscle nourishment. It is neurodegenerative disease in which the nerve cells die in the brain and spinal cord due to hits to the head. CTE short for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy happens when getting repeated blows to the head. CTE’s have a lot of disease under it like dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington's disease. Those can only be prevented by avoiding head injury. The number one thing that causes this is being part of a sport, weather contact to contact or contact with the turf and equipment. There has been more rules added to sports for the protection of the players. All the measures should be taken to make the sport safer, however it should not change the sport. When someone does sports like football, soccer, and boxing they know injuries happen, but still decide do it because of their passion for the game. Informing the athletes on

Other type of dementia can be coupled with a rare hereditary disorder known as CADASIL which stands for cerebral autosomal dominant ateriopathy with subcortical infarct and leukoencephalopathy. This disorder is linked to abnormalities of a specific gene, Notch3 located on chromosome 19. The first symptoms arise at the age of 20 or 35 or 40 and the individuals often die at the age of 65. Researchers are still working to find out the exact cause of CADASIL. Other causes of vascular dementia include vasculitis, hypertension and lesions caused due to brain hemorrhage. An autoimmune disease, lupus erythematosus and inflammatory disease temporal arteritis can also damage blood vessels resulting in dementia.

Parkinson's disease affects the way you move. It happens when there is a problem with certain nerve cells in the brain. Normally, these nerve cells make an important chemical called dopamine. Dopamine sends signals to the part of your brain that controls movement. Some conspiracy theories makes us happy by creating a picture where hitler was finally reduced to a trembling, almost rigid person with the mood swings of a woman at her worst PMS, shambling through a burnt, destroyed, and pillaged Nazi regime because he was inflicted by parkinson's disease in the final days of his life. Although it is rumored that hitler really had this disease. It was highly unlikely that he died from it due to the fact that parkinson's disease does not kill by

Parkinson disease (PD), also referred to as Parkinson’s disease and paralysis agitans, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that is the third most common neurologic disorder of older adults. It is a debilitating disease affecting motor ability and is characterized by four cardinal symptoms: tremor rigidity, bradykinesia or kinesis (slow movement/no movement), and postural instability. Most people have primary, or idiopathic, disease. A few patients have secondary parkinsonian symptoms from conditions such as brain tumors and certain anti-psychotic drugs.

It is a progressive incurable fatal neurological disease. In the body we have these things called motor neurons which control muscle movement. When the process of Als starts these motor neurons die 1 after the other. As of today there is no known explanation on how people get Als. Although there is some sort of explanation on why young athletes get the disease. It has to do with toxic proteins that are found in the brain, these toxins start to form after suffering consecutive blows to the head. They start to form in the brain and then they slowly leak down the spinal cord which triggers Als. It all starts with the first symptoms of feeling muscle weakness, trouble chewing and slurred speech. In any random body part the feeling of it starts to go away. Which then spreads to the rest of the body parts and then ultimately leaving paralysed. It leaves the person unable to do anything, but there are some things you still use such as vision, hearing and the strangest of them all the brain. The average range of those diagnosed is from 40 to 70 years of age. The life expectancy after contracting the disease is from 2-5 years but in some cases the person has lived up to 10

Vascular Dementia is the second most of dementia after Alzheimer disease. it is caused by problems in the supplies of the blood at the brain. The brain need enough of blood to be health, if the blood cannot be reached to the brain, then the cells will be die. there are factors can be increase a person risk of developing Vascular Dementia include: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart problems. Common sign and symptoms for Vascular Dementia may include: problems with speed thinking, concentration and communication, and Depressions.

What causes this disease? There is no actual mapped out cause of this disease. It can be congenital and most of the time it is a sudden onset. There are a lot of signs that can let people know that they are starting down that path. A lot of times the actual person doesn’t know its happening though, it usually takes a family member, spouse, or friend to point it out because they see the change first-hand. The disease progresses by the continuous deterioration of the brain tissue. The damaging of the brain tissue breaks down critical centers of the brain that control daily activities. This disease causes memory loss and cannot be regained or new ones be made. It causes them to be a different person and act differently that they would have

The two presentations I chose were William’s Parkinson’s Disease and Miguel’s Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE). The reason I chose the Parkinson’s one was that I presented on Huntington’s disease (HD) and people often compare the two. I was saddened to learn that the cause of Parkinson’s has yet to be discovered since they have discovered the faulty gene associated with HD. Both diseases are still in need of a cure, but I feel that HD is just one step closer at the moment. It also interested me that men are more likely to get Parkinson’s, while men and women have an equal chance of getting HD. Another difference is that a majority of Parkinson’s cases are not inherited, while HD is clearly hereditary. Something else I found intriguing was that HD has a stated life expectancy of 10 to 20 years after onset of symptoms. People with Parkinson’s do not have a set life expectancy and may live as long as somebody without the disease. However, I do understand that advanced Parkinson’s symptoms could lead to life-threatening complications which could result in death.