Alzheimer's
This brief report is a summary and review of the rather nasty degenerative brain disorder that is known as Alzheimer's. The disease has been known about for a decent amount of time but the overall progress come to when it comes to preventing or curing the disorder has become remained frustratingly slow. Even so, progress is indeed being made and more is now known about the disorder than was before. This report will explore the possible known causes of the disease, the symptoms, the treatments that current exist and the general prognosis for those that contract the disorder. While the disease eventually runs its course once contracted at this time, there does seem to be progress with staving it off and/or slowing it down.
Analysis
Many people are familiar with the general disorder that has come to be known as dementia. Indeed, Alzheimer's is a form of dementia. In total, about 4.5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's. The vast majority, but not all, of the people that contract the disorder are over the age of sixty years old when symptoms manifest. The disorder, like dementia, leads to an overall degradation in memory function. Indeed, the first thing that seems...
Next to go are things like emotions and inhibitions. In terms of what is going on with the brain itself, there are lesions forming on it. These are known as amyloid plagues or tangles. These lesions accumulate and become bigger. This coincides with an ability to cope with daily life that declines with every passing day as the disease starts to run its course. The progressing deterioration is caused by the affected brain cells dying off. As for the causes of Alzheimer's, the main precursor known about at this time seems to be genetics. There have been theories about aluminum, such as from pans and such, being a cause but this has mostly been shot down and disregarded as being sound science (WebMD, 2016).
Things that have carried at least some weight are links between Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's, links between obesity and Alzheimer's and certain genes present in the makeup of a given patient, not unlike the nefarious breast cancer gene that almost guarantees that someone will get breast cancer. However, the introduction did make mention of prevention and the main avenue to accomplish this seems to be a commitment to "exercising" and using the brain as…
