Think about it, an average teen in this world has just been diagnosed with a type of incurable dementia which will forever change his or her life. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is one of the less common forms of dementia. It is when the nerve cells in the frontal lobe die and over time the brain tissue shrinks. Frontotemporal dementia is mostly found in people who are in their teens or twenties. It can affect young people in a very negative way. They start to get aggressive and as the disease gets worse they lose friends and have a difficult time in school and understanding things. Frontotemporal dementia is a rare disease that is on the rise and affects the people of the younger generation.
The symptoms of frontotemporal dementia are very harsh and difficult to go through. Some symptoms are unwillingness to talk, change in personality such as depression, repetitive behavior like gathering items and compulsively shaving, strange verbal ,physical, and sexual behavior,and weight gain due to overeating. These are some of the horrible symptoms that can be seen in FTD patients.These symptoms are very harmful it can lead the patient to be more aggressive and they tend to feel lonely,lost and confused.The disease is typically inherited. It is caused by clumps of abnormal proteins insides the brain cells. These proteins are called the Tau proteins they take a form of picks bodies. This slowly leads to frontotemporal dementia.
It is sad to say that there is no cure to FTD. The average life expectancy after the diagnosis is only five to ten years.As time passes, motor problems are common and the disease rapidly gets worse. The FTD treatment focuses on managing the symptoms, especially those affecting behavior. Doctors can prescribe...
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...e in eye movement in FTD patients through an additional type of study. This involves FTD patients and normal patients in front of television monitors while researchers record their eye movements. They show things such as pictures on the monitor and ask questions about them to the patients. This can help identify the mental decline before the first symptoms begin.People hope that with all this research,a cure will be found soon.
In conclusion,Frontotemporal Dementia is a type of Alzheimers that can be found in teens and it highly impacts them in a negative way. When people are young they just want to take life easy and have fun. When they hear that they have FTD,its like their whole world shatters and they feel an emptiness inside of them. Frontotemporal Dementia is a rare disease that is becoming more common and is affecting the people of the young generation.
( what is the main symptom of Dementia and how does this affect a person ? )
This is a disease is found in the brain and is caused by a buildup of a protein called tau. Tau slowly kills brain cells. Even after brain trauma has ended this process still continues. There are many symptoms such as memory loss, confusion, impaired judgement, depression, and even aggression.
To better understand the patient, you should first understand the disease itself. According to Wayne, White, and Smith (2015), “dementia is caused when connections in the brain are lost due to inflammation, trauma, or disease and eventually the neurons die and dementia is the result.” Although some believe that dementia may be genetic, research suggests that it has more to do with your lifestyle, heredity, and environment. Some easy signs and symptoms of people developing dementia are memory loss, impaired judgment, faulty reasoning, and inappropriate behavior. These behaviors can be difficult and stressful for the people providing caring for them.
Nerve cell death and tissue throughout the brain is the most significant affect over time. Naturally by age twenty-five the brain starts to decrease in size. With Alzheimer’s, the amount decrease is extremely significant. The cortex begins to shrivel up which is the part of the brain required for planning, remembering, and thinking. The most noticeable shrinkage occurs in the hippocampus. The hippocampus is responsible for the formation of new memories, it is also located inside the cortex. Upon further inspection under microscope, tissue samples are observed and synapses and nerve cell count is severely decreased. Tangles, are also found which our twisted strands of another protein due to nerve cells dying and bunching together. Plaques and tangles are prime suspects in the death and tissue loss in the Alzheimer’s brain. Beta-amyloid is a chemical and is sticky which causes it to gradually build up into plaques. This chemical derives from a larger protein found in the nerve cells with fatty membranes. These tangles destroy a vital cell transport system made of proteins.
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Alzheimer’s disease is a complex illness that affects the brain tissue directly and undergoes gradual memory and behavioral changes which makes it difficult to diagnose. It is known to be the most common form of dementia and is irreversible. Over four million older Americans have Alzheimer’s, and that number is expected to triple in the next twenty years as more people live into their eighties and nineties. (Johnson, 1989). There is still no cure for Alzheimer’s but throughout the past few years a lot of progress has been made.
The first case of dementia was discovered in 1906 by a German physiatrist Alois Alzheimer. It was first observed in a female patient and she was forty-one years old her name was Auguste D. Dr. Alzheimer observed a decline in the patient’s cognitive abilities. She lost her memory, she exhibited behavioral issues, and she suffered from hallucinations, lost the ability to comprehend language, disorientation and lost her speech. After Augusta’s passing Dr. Alzheimer preformed an autopsy that showed the classic triangles and knots we associate today with Alzheimer. Those triangles and knots are a proteins and plaque. The brain is self looked smaller and had distinct characteristics. Still with modern medicine the only way to diagnose a person with Alzheimer is after their death with an autopsy. (THE ALZHEIMER'S PROJECT, 2014).
In this day and age, it seems as though almost everyone has experience a loved one taken away form a very serious disease known as Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is unbelievably devastating for everyone affected by it. This disease is causing major economical problems such as less occupancy in the nursing homes, and hospitals due to the rising population of elderly men and women being diagnosed with it everyday. Because there is not yet a cure for this disease and the percent of the population being diagnosed keeps rapidly rising, more time and money needs to go towards Alzheimer’s research.
degeneration 3 A nerve cell has numerous axons and dendrites coming out of it. A neurofibrillary tangle is when the neuron changes. A number of dendrites are missing and the nucleus is filled with protein filaments resembling steel wool. Although all elderly people have a few of these helix shaped bundles in their brain as they are normal indicators of aging, Alzheimer's patients have. more than usual.
Alzheimer's disease is a neurological disorder which kills the brain cells, causing memory loss and cognitive decline. This leads to severe psychological impairments which changes how people think, behave and other complications such as paranoia, disorientation and unprovoked aggression. These psychological impairments reduce people’s functional ability and therefore reduce their quality of life.
progressive disease that destroys memory and other important mental functions. It is the most common form of dementia; a group of brain disorders that results in the loss of intellectual and social skills ("Alzheimer's Disease"). It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, and the fifth leading cause of death for people of the age of 65 or older ("2013 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures"). One in every three seniors dies with Alzheimer’s or another dementia, and over 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease ("2013 Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures").
Alzheimer's disorder is a mental disorder that affects your brain, and in particular the disorder affects the memory part of your brain. The disorder slows down the memory section of your brain, and as a result the number one symptom of Alzheimer's is memory loss. The disorder usually doesn't affect younger people, but instead affects people that are older than the age of sixty. The disorder can get so serious that the patient could loss there of about everything that has ever happened in their life. Patients usually loss their memory of their childhood during the most severe, intense, and last stage of the disorder. Alzheimer's disorder can also have a drastic effect on the patient's family, because during the disorder the patient can forget about their entire family.
The normal symptoms of early Alzheimer’s is loss of memory, decision-making, behavior, language, and personality. My grandmother has short term memory but her long term is still good. She would ask what was for dinner every hour and we would remind her. We would sometimes test her and question her back to see if she can try to remember. Another problem she has is that she forgets she needs to go to the bathroom so she wears adult dippers to help keep her clean. She might get stubborn when we push her to go to the bathroom but we trick by saying that we need to go. Every few hours one of us would take her to the bathroom so she didn’t have to rely on the adult dippers. She would call me by my cousin’s name almost every time I see her, so I would remind her my name and it would take her awhile to realize that I’m not my cousin. Another problem my grandmother has that she would forget what the plans were for the day so every other hour we would get questioned about it.
Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that attacks and destroys brain nerve cells or neurons eventually killing the cells. It is the most common form of dementia (around 50-60% of all cases of dementia). it affects 1 in 20 people over the age of 65 and 1 in 1000 people under the age of 65. Although it affects more people over the age of 65 it doesn’t mean that age is the cause of the disease. Patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease suffer from memory loss, thinking difficulty, loss of language skills and changes in behaviour. No one is immune to this disease. Alzheimer’s disease is named after Dr Alois Alzheimer’s. In 1906 he noticed changes in the brain tissue of a woman who died from an unusual mental illness. Her symptoms included loss of memory, language problems and unpredictable behaviour. After her death he examined her brain and found abnormal protein fragments called plagues and tangles. These protein fragments are the two major features of Alzheimer’s disease. The third is the loss of connection between nerve cells and the brain.
Scientists know that Alzheimer disease is characterized by a gradual spread of sticky plaques and clumps of tangled fibers that disrupt the organization of nerve cells in the brain. However , a definite cause, prevention, or cause has not been found.