What is a brain injury? What does being "brain-injured"? A brain-injured patient is a person with severe brain damage that result in achieving the thought process. Brain damage may occur after: - Head injury - An aneurysm or stroke - A tumor - A brain abscess - Following a disease affecting the nervous system (multiple sclerosis‚ Behcet’s disease ...) Consecutive brain damage such accidents and diseases often cause coma‚ neurological damage and cognitive impairment. What problems does it
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Abstract Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a motor neuron disease‚ degenerative and fatal in nature‚ that affects the worldwide population and more than 12‚000 people in the United States alone. ALS remains idiopathic in nature‚ with only a small percentage of familial infection‚ and research into the causes and the progression of the disease has made little headway in the last 25 years‚ despite rising scientific interest. This article will provide a brief description of the known pathophysiology
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Have you ever thought how would life be if you couldn’t remember it? sadly‚ this is the true life story of millions of older adults who suffer with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer is an irreversible cognitive memory loss disease that is currently the leading cause of dementia. The disease is said to be more common on adult in their mid 60’s however early signs of the disease have been identified on individuals has young as 30. Memory loss‚ unpredictable behavior and abnormal language problems are
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Roman Acosta March 30‚ 2016 Comp & Lit Professor Waters Tau Protein On March 15‚ 2016 the National Football League became aware of a link between playing football and the brain disease known as CTE. Jeff Miller‚ the National Football League’s senior vice president for health and safety‚ told the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce that head trauma caused by football can trigger brain disease. The scientists know that CTE is the result from head trauma‚ but there is so much
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The age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease that affects the elderly population with a incidence peak over 50 years old. It can occur in two main aspects: the wet form or the dry form. The dry AMD is characterized by the absence of choroidal neovascular complications with a less dramatic evolution compared to the wet form but no less disabling. Great challenge is to understand the pathophysiology that leads to development of one AMD form respect to another and within each of the two‚
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Leber hereditary optic neuropathy‚ also known as LHON‚ is a neurodegenerative mitochondrial disease that leads to blindness. LHON is an inherited form of vision loss that usually appears in a person’s teens and in rare cases appears in early childhood or in adult years (Leber hereditary optic neuropathy - Genetics Home Reference). The Initial symptoms of LHON are usually blurring and clouding of vision. The symptoms of LHON can start in one eye or both at the same time. Once symptoms start in one
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Week 3 Mitosis and Meiosis Assignment William Scalia Grantham University Week 3 Mitosis and Meiosis Assignment A rare disease that is inherited is Tay-Sachs disease. What the disease does is it destroys nerve cells located in the Spinal cord and the brain. The most common type of Tay-Sachs appears in infants. The disease is present early in development but the symptoms usually don’t appear until after the age of 4. Symptoms appear as a slowing or halting of development to include
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All people do not deal with traumatic brain injuries the same in the way that it takes people a different amount of time to recover than others and that it effects the patient’s qualities that they had prior to the injury differently. Traumatic brain injuries are common and they disable 150 million- 200 million people per year which is the leading cause of disability in people under 40 years old by injuring the frontal and temporal lobes. Recovery times are different for different people (most people
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My interest in neuroscience was sparked during my junior year in high school when I attended a series of talks on Multiple Sclerosis (MS) with my father who has suffered from MS my entire life. These talks furthered my understanding of my father’s personal struggle with MS and provided my first in depth insight into neuroscience. Combining my firsthand understanding of the financial and emotional burden of debilitating neurological diseases with my newfound love for research lead me to the realization
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Parkinson Disease Parkinson disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder which affects 1.5 percent of global population over the age of sixty five years old and nearly one million patients in America. It was first described by a man named James Parkinson in 1817 whom called it the shaking palsy (in his work named "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy"). (Goetz) He noticed a collection of symptoms based on the way that these patients moved‚ including‚ the rest tremor‚ bradykinesia (slowness of
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