...Alzheimer's disease (AD), also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type (SDAT) or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia. This incurable, degenerative, and terminal disease was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him. Generally, it is diagnosed in people over 65 years of age, although the less-prevalent early-onset Alzheimer's can occur much earlier. As of September 2009, this number is reported to be 35 million-plus worldwide.http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/us_med_more_alzheimer_s.html The prevalence of Alzheimer's is thought to reach approximately 107 million people by 2050. Read full entry
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- Alzheimer's Disease
- If Your Loved One Was Recently Diagnosed, Learn What to Expect.
- www.AlzResourceCenter.com
- 1.Alzheimer's Disease - Wikipedia
- Hyperlinked article covering pathology, etiology, prevalence, diagnosis, prevention, nutrition, treatments, history, and more.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
lzheimers
- 2.What is Alzheimer's? - Alzheimer's Association
- Describes the brain disorder, symptoms, stages, and the myths associated with the disease.
- http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_
disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp
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alzheimers disease?
I am doing a report on
Alzheimers Disease, and I need
to know a few things
1) What percentage of the
population has Alzheimers at
different ages?
2) What happens inside the
brain during the different
stages of Alzheimers?
3) How long should a person
with each stage of the disease
expect to live?
PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR
SOURCES!!!! I NEED A
BIBLIOGRAPY!!!!
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Here are some partial answers: An Alzheimer's diagnosis cuts a person's remaining life expectancy in half. This is from a study of 521 people with newly diagnosed Alzheimer disease. They found that the median survival period was 4.2 years for men and 5.7 years for women, about half what a person of the same age who did not have the disease would be expected to live. It is the most common cause of dementia and affects 4.5 million Americans. However, according to the study, there has been no firm estimate of just how long an Alzheimer's patient has to live. Dr. Eric Larson and colleagues at the University of Washington followed 521 men and women over 60 who had been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Those diagnosed in their 70s lived longer than those diagnosed at age 85 or older, said Larson, director of the Center for Health Studies at the Group Health Cooperative in Seattle and a former medical director of the University of Washington Medical Center. The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. In a paper published in the September 15, 2004, issue of Cerebral Cortex by Buckner and colleagues examined whether typical aging and Alzheimer's disease are on a continuum or distinct. The researchers used MRI to measure the volume of two regions of the brain previously linked with age-associated changes: the corpus callosum, and the medial temporal lobe. Comparing volume in young adults, older adults without dementia, and individuals with mild dementia of the Alzheimer type, they found clear differences between the effects of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. The corpus callosum was smaller in older adults, regardless of whether they had dementia. In contrast, volume reductions in the hippocampus were markedly accelerated and larger in people with Alzheimer's disease. |
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Is it true that John McCain The man trembles and his
speech becomes incoherent. He
suffers from vertigo and
forgets things, stumbles, has
memory lapses and can't
recall-or doesn't know-in
which continent countries are.
Are these all signs that he
has the beginning stages of
Alzheimers disease? Or does it
simply mean that the man is a
stupid, lame idiot?
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Yes this is very much so. Beside Alzheimer's McCain is also senile and been brain damaged since Vietnam war. He belongs in the psychiatric ward instead of the White House. |
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What are biomedical engineers is there any current
technology for alzheimers
disease? or a stroke
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Alzheimers Disease One area of clinical research is focused on treating the underlying disease pathology. Reduction of amyloid beta levels is a common target of compounds under investigation. Immunotherapy or vaccination for the amyloid protein is one treatment modality under study. Unlike preventative vaccination, the putative therapy would be used to treat people already diagnosed. It is based upon the concept of training the immune system to recognise, attack, and reverse deposition of amyloid, thereby altering the course of the disease. An example of such a vaccine under investigation was ACC-001, although the trials were suspended in 2008. Another similar agent is bapineuzumab, an antibody designed as identical to the naturally induced anti-amyloid antibody. Other approaches are neuroprotective agents, such as AL-108, and metal-protein interaction attenuation agents, such as PBT2. A TNFα receptor fusion protein, etanercept has also showed encouraging results. Also, in 2008, two separate clinical trials showed positive results in modifying the course of disease in mild to moderate AD with methylthioninium chloride, a drug that inhibits tau aggregation and dimebon, an antihistamine. |
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