高中英语任务型阅读1.任务型阅读Asthma(哮喘) is a long-lasting breathing disease that affects millions of Americans, many of whom are children. People who get asthma will suffer from lack of breath, difficulty in breathing or coughing--which are caused by the tightening of the muscles in airways...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis(ALS) (肌萎缩性侧索硬化症) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degene...
It is an organic(器官的) disease that destroys brain cells. Alzheimer's disease affects the patient's memory speech and movement. In the beginning stages of the disease the patient may seem slightly confused. He may have trouble speaking. Then the patient's memory begins to fail. He may ...
Parkinson\'s Disease1. 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(多巴胺). Dopamine sends signals to the part of your brain that controls ...
Certain cells are more sensitive to the substance huntingtin, which is the protein altered by the genetic mutation that causes the disease. If the researchers find out how to reduce production of the changed huntingtin in the particularly sensitive cells of the brain, it would probably be possible...
The brain changes that lead to Alzheimer's, a disease that affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans, start slowly and silently. It takes up to two decades before the characteristic symptoms of memory loss and confusion appear, and amyloid beta protein begins to collect into plaques in the bra...
阅读理解。 Alzheimer's disease affects millions of people around the world. American researchers say the disease will affect more than one hundred million people worldwide by the year twenty fifty. That would be fourtimes the current (现在的) number. Researchers and doctors have been studying Alz...
The brain changes that lead to Alzheimer's, a disease that affects an estimated 5.7 million Americans, start slowly and silently. It takes up to two decades before the characteristic symptoms of memory loss and confusion appear, and amyloid beta protein begins to collect into plaques in the bra...
Dementia(痴呆),aseriousmentaldisordercausedbybraindiseaseorinjury,affectstheabilitytothink,rememberandbehavenormally.160,000peoplehavesomeformsofdementiainSweden,Alzheimer'sdiseasebeingthemostcommon.Atthesametime,manynewdiagnostic(诊断的)methodsandearly-interventiontreatmenthavebeendevelopedinrecentyears,whichhighlights...
An international collaboration led by scientists and doctors from the UK, Netherlands and United States has identified a new genetic disease that affects the size of our brains and causes severe developmental problems. While working on another project, Dr Siddharth Banka who is based at The Universi...