Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia aren’t always interchangeable. Lewy body dementia, for example, can cause hallucinations in some people, while others with Alzheimer’s may not. But in the progression, many forms of dementia share the same stages. Recognizing where the person ...
If you are doing what you love then you're doing what is right. Desire and passion resonate with your body, mind and soul. When you're passionate you don't question, judge, criticize, second-guess, or doubt. It's that passion that will fuel the fire to overcome challenges. — Layne ...
Ongoing inflammation in the body is a risk factor for most of the chronic diseases that become more common with age: high blood pressure, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s disease. As for insulin resistance, that leads to type 2 diabetes, which in...
Some call this paranoid, but we all have thoughts like this from time to time. Just because you’re worried that people might be talking about you doesn’t mean you have a mental illness. Clinical paranoia happens when you’re 100% convinced of it, even when facts prove it isn’t true...
this gut-brain axis are disrupted it may lead to a number of cognitive dysfunctions and mood disorders including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), attention-deficit disorder (ADD), sensory processing disorder, autism, Parkinson’s disease, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. ...
. But scientists (at least the ethical ones) don’t just go grab any cadaver from their local mortuary whenever they need to look at a heart or brain. If you want to further science, state that in your living will and, who knows, you may just be part of the cure for Alzheimer’s...
According to the Merck Manuals, about 10%–20% of people with untreated Wernicke encephalopathy will not survive. However, with treatment, the prognosis of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is far superior when compared to that of Alzheimer's disease and othertypes of dementiawhose declines are chronic ...
[18,39,40]. Moreover, an allele of the TNF-α gene-308 G/A variants is associated with an increased susceptibility to myocardial infarction. TNF-α variants and TNF-α itself have also been linked to varying degrees with an augmented risk of Alzheimer’s disease [41]. Recently, ...