It’s a Brain Thing: Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias: Part 1
Friday, January 15th, 2010 at
3:26 am
henleydb asked:
Learn about dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease and the brain problems involved.
Tagged with: Alzheimer Disease • Brain Problems • Brain Thing
Filed under: Alzheimers
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To battle a common form of alzheimers, just start a regiment of Alpha GPC (a precursor to parasympathetic acetylcholine for the brain)
Dementia and Alzheimers ****! My best friend was diagnosed with Alzheimers and I am suffering immensely for my best friend!
Unfortunately, he does not live close by and with the gas prices so high and the oil companies needing an asskicking, I HAVE trouble getting to him! I am in Pittsburgh and he is in Johnstown! I try to call him on the phone and he wont answer! How bad can it get! Alzheimers is horrible!
Dementia seems to be life’s punishment for those who dare to live past 70. Come to think of it, it’s more common now than it used to be. I wonder, could that be in part due to all the **** that’s in our food like preservatives and the likes? That’s got to do something to your metabolism!
There are two types of Alzeimer’s disease:
- Early onset (Genetically, heriditary mostly people from Germany in fact some 35% Germans do carry the gene)
- Late onset (common illness that comes after one ages, 81+ years in North America, mainly victims are of white race)
Thank you for posting these videos- My mom,82 yrs,had a stroke 8 mos. ago and I can tell from the first video that I am going to learn a lot. I don’t want to overdo it, but thank you.
What does current research find about the causes of dementia in late life?
1. Most common pure type is due to microvascular infarcts (lacunes, microinfarcts)
2. Second most common pure type is AD
3. Two other lesions — cortical Lewy bodies and hippocampal sclerosis are each quite common
4. the majority of cases of dementia involve 2 or more processes simultaneously
5. 20-25% of dementia cases cannot be attributed to any of the above — a “new” disease?????
You are correct in your assessment of the types of dementia. What do the textbooks say about the causes of dementia in late life?
1. Most (50-75%) – Alzheimer’s
2. Next most common – vascular (10-20%)
3. then dementia with Lewy bodies (10-20%)
4. then mixed AD/vascular (5-10%)
5. then a variety of other ‘rare’ conditions
6. a very small number unexplained
You may be interested in looking at a few of the videos I have posted. I have been involved with neuropathology research in the area of dementia. It was interesting how often the clinical diagnosis did not match the pathological findings at autopsy.