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Alzheimer’s Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease. It is characterized by progressive loss of memory as nerve cells (neurons) die and other areas of brain atrophy.
The discovery of the disease was the work of psychiatrists Emil Kraepelin and Alois Alzheimer in 1906.
For every thousand people a year usually appear 10 to 15 new cases of dementia overall and between 5 and 8 cases of Alzheimer’s disease.
The risk of disease is higher in women and particularly among the population over 85 years, old age is the main risk to suffer the disease.
The causes of the disease, but not fully discovered, it is known that acetylcholine deficiency, accumulation of amyloid and metabolic disorders are the main causes.
This disease is characterized by loss of neurons and synapses in the cerebral cortex and subcortical elsewhere. This loss otrofia determined in the affected regions, degenerating temporal lobe and atrophy of the affected regions, degenerating temporal and parietal lobes and parts of the frontal cortex and cingulate gyrus. Read the rest of this entry »
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Symptoms Of Menopause
- The period that precedes this is called pre-menopause and post menopause that follows.
- The ovaries stop when menopause is approaching slowly but surely with the release of mature eggs, which decreases fertility.
- Most women begin the end of their fertile period somewhere between their 45th and 55th.
- This phase lasts 6 to 13 years. In popular parlance, this term ‘transition’ (for a new life) or called ‘menopause’ (although strictly speaking not true).
Women can during the transition very different feelings ranging from discomfort and depression to the relief and freedom. How they experience depends on how their body works in this period, but also how they psychologically against aging and look at this new stage.