Monthly Archive for August, 2006
A Mother’s Plea – Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
I am a mother of a biological son (grown 33 years old) and adopted boy/girl twins (10 years old). I am an R.N. of 30 years still working full time and exhausted human being. My dilemma is as follows:My adopted 10 year old son has most recently been diagnosed with pediatric bipolar disorder. This of course is after 10 years of a page long full diagnoses on this child. He has been on more medications than a CAD/COPD Renal patient!! I get conflicting statement after statement, article after article and I am exhausted!
Parkinson’s Disease – Pharmaceutical and Physical Therapies
Muscle control, movement, and balance of the body and mind are affected by a progressive disorder of the central nervous system, Parkinson's disease. The result of this imbalance is a lack of harmony and fine-tuning of movement and contractions of inflexible muscles and joints. In Parkinson's, the substantia-nigra cells, responsible for dopamine release, are destroyed or malfunction. This roots a large loss in the amount of available dopamine to keep balance with the acetylcholine. The results are symptoms of tremor, stiff muscles and joints, posture instability, slowed movements, depression, vertigo, sleeping disorder, sexual inability, difficulty in swallowing, and speech pathologies. Though there is no method to entirely stop the loss of these nerve cells, there are interventions that attempt to manage a slow decline of these cells as a treatment option, commonly medication and physical therapy.
Alzheimer’s Disease – Prevention or Delay by Altering Lifestyle?
We now know several genes involved in the origin of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Thus, we are now in an era where genetic testing may prove useful to complement diagnosis in individuals that may have Alzheimer's disease, in the early detection of the disease in patients with mild cognitive deficits, and for predicting onset of the disease in those that do not have any symptoms currently. Indeed, it is now pertinent to ask the question: Can you prevent or delay Alzheimer's disease (AD) if you changed your lifestyle?
Advances of Alzheimer’s Research: Outlook on Prevention and Earlier Detection
An estimated 4.5 million older people currently have Alzheimer's disease, and researchers predict that by 2050 the number could nearly triple to 13.2 million. But several promising recent developments in the study of Alzheimer's disease may one day lead to new methods of diagnosing, preventing and slowing the disease's progress. These include a new way to look inside the brains of people with the disease as well as new methods for preventing buildup of a protein, called amyloid, which forms plaques that scientists believe may be involved in causing Alzheimer's symptoms.
Popular Posts
- Mind Games - Science's Attempts at Thought Control
- The Science of Stuttering
- Risks of Personalized Medicine
- Intelligence - Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
- Is Grief a Mental Illness?
- The Brain's Buying Power
- The Cost of a Good Night's Sleep
- Inside Your Brain on Holiday
- Risk Factors for Recurrence of Depression
- Salvia Divinorum - DEA Control over Magic in the Mint
Future Posts
Latest Posts
- Intelligence – Do You Need it to be Successful?
- A Trip for Terminal Patients
- Memory Ain’t What It Used to Be – And That’s Good for Psychotherapy
- The Science of Stuttering
- Are Your Friends Making You Fat?
- Beer – The Smarter Drink
- Macroeconomics and Suicide
- From Nymphomania to Hypersexuality
- Commitment – It’s the new Love
- Religion and Depression – Cause or Effect?
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