ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gherig’s is a neuromuscular disease‚ being that it affects the nerves and the muscles. It damages motor neurons in the spine and some in the brain. ALS is considered hereditary but is not in all cases. 90% of patients suffer from SALS‚ or sporadic ALS and is not hereditary directly. Approximately 10% of patients are diagnosed with familial ALS (FALS) which is passed down from parents. Family history is used to distinguish between the two‚ if one or
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your favorite player from your team out for the season because of multiple concussions. This is said mostly the NFL. It is dangerously increasing players chances of getting diagnosed with the diseases CTE’s and ALS. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS is caused by overtime head trauma and concussions. Lou Gehrig was the first ever known athlete to get diagnosed and died this disease. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy are multiple diseases like Alzheimer’s. Athletes and fans should be more aware
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis‚ also called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ is a genetic disease that affects the nerve cells that control muscle movement. ALS is a unique disease by the symptoms it causes when it is just beginning‚ the way it effects the people who have it‚ the people who are effected by it‚ and the way it is passed down from generation to generation in families. The symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are easy to overlook. The first symptoms of
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Neurofibromatosis is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that affect many parts of the body. The disorder affects the development of nerve cell tissue as well as the brain and spinal cord. Although the tumors are usually noncancerous‚ some can become malignant. Neurofibromatosis can range from mild to severe‚ which can lead to complications such as‚ "hearing loss‚ learning impairment‚ heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) problems‚ loss of vision‚ and severe pain‚" (Mayo Clinic). There are
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Hadlee Gibson November 13th‚ 2017 4th period Disease Diary Cerebral Palsy Cerebral palsy is the disorder of movement‚ posture or muscle tone. Some people diagnosed with this disease have a loss of hearing and vision. Cerebral palsy doesn’t a ffect the life expectancy of some people. Some of the symptoms are: stiff muscles‚ exaggerated or jerky reflexes‚ problems with movement on one side of the body‚ involuntary movements or tremors‚ lack of coordination and balance‚ problems swallowing or sucking
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Neuromyelitis Optica (NMO) is a rare but severe inflammatory process of the central nervous system. NMO “is characterized by longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis‚ which can leave one quite debilitated at presentation‚ and unilateral or bilateral optic neuritis (TMA‚ 2015).” The condition “attacks on the optic nerves and spinal cord. Patients may experience these attacks at the same time or at different times (Cleveland Clinic‚ 2015).” NMO can affect children as young as 3 years old and
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After any injury‚ it is a natural response that the immune system will trigger it inane or adaptive immune to protect or limit the injury to it body. The adaptive immune response is antigen-specific and requires the recognition of specific "non-self" antigens during a process called antigen presentation. B cells and T cells are the major types of lymphocytes in the immune system. However‚ when an adaptive immune response develops against self-antigens autoimmune response occurs with the characteristic
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I learned to never be quick to judge a person when you never know what a person is going through! Gaucher disease is a receivable inherited lysosomal storage disease. This characterization makes tone by bruising of bones because they are weak and derive of pain. The sickness that deliberates fatigue‚ anemia that undergoes pain‚ low blood platelet count that will be harder flowing‚ and growth of the liver and spleen. These visceral and neurologic symptoms are causing disruption of the lysosomes because
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Milestone 1: Organ System Assessment Muscular System: Characteristics Skeletal Cardiac Smooth Body Location Attached to bones or‚ for facial muscles‚ to skin Walls of the heart Mostly in walls of hollow visceral organs (other than the heart) Cell Shape and Appearance Single‚ very long‚ cylindrical‚ multinucleate cells with very obvious striations Branching chains of cells; uninucleate‚ striations; intercalated discs Single‚ fusiform‚ uninucleate; no striations Connective Tissue Components Epimysium
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Glaucoma is stealing away the vision and way of life from Americans every day. This disease is causing the vision of many Americans to be lost‚ and many more may soon follow. This disease is difficult to detect and the damage done is irreversible; but what if there was a solution? I am proposing a stem cell treatment for glaucoma that could that could heal the effects caused by glaucoma. This stem cell treatment allows for a promising non controversial solution to glaucoma induced blindness that
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