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This video gives some great insights into alzheimer’s prevention.
www.AlzheimersPrevention.org – Introducing the Tucson-based Alzheimer’s Research and Prevention Foundation research into Kirtan Kriya
A question from gungnir: My 11 year old daughter is having anxiety attacks, anyone have a child with anxiety?
She has been experiencing these for about a year now. Mom (me) had breast cancer – surgeries, chemo, radiation and herceptin. Grandpa got very ill during this time, Alzheimer’s & other medical conditions, and passed. Also, I had lost my job of 5.5 yrs right before diagnosis. We recently lost our home & car. It’s just she and I. For the most part, she has weathered all this extremely well, but has anxiety attacks. Have tried to find a Doc, 3 month wait, other issues impeding us getting in. She does talk to me about it, and the root seems to be “what if” – what if someone breaks in our house…..She realizes what is happening and can get ahold of it, sometimes…Anyone else had experience with a child? Are there any books or places I can get info? It tears me apart to not be able to really help her. She is afraid her whole life will be like this…oh I can feel her pain. Also, single mom, left Dad when I was 5 months pregnant.
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Answer by Lisa P
Your story is so heartbreaking for me, you and your daughter have been through so much,and you seem so strong.
You have done the best that you can, just continue being there for her, and I can see the love that you have for your daughter. There is nothing more painful than a parent seeing their child in pain, I know that if you could you would trade places with her.
there is probably more to her anxiety, she has lost people she cares about and she is also probably worried that she will lose you also.
There is a website I found that is dedicated to children with anxiety and it helped understand some of the issues that we were struggling with my nephew.
What you can do is continue to be there for your child, and it is a good thing that she is talking to you about the problems.
Try to get her to relax, whether its playing music that she likes or playing with her her favorite game, that will force her to focus on something she enjoys.
If you can, get her a massage or massage her yourself. Massages are great stress relievers and this will drop her anxiety levels.
I hope these suggestions will help
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A question asked by UNHAPPY: What happened to David Letterman’s left hand? Looks like he also has a black thumb nail.?
On the show from 2-15-11 he kept shaking when he held his hands out, then he would keep his left hand in his coat pocket most of the monologue. Something is obviously wrong. Could he have some type of symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease?
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Answer by Beavis Comeavis
He is cursed. The curse makes his thumbnails turn black, he shakes, and he loses his ability to be funny.
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Explaining alzheimer’s symptoms in a nutshell.
allaboutalzheimers.org Alzheimer’s disease involves the gradual destruction of brain cells and this eventually results in sufferers losing their memory and thinking ability. Being a progressive disease, the patients will experience personality changes and will do less and less as it progresses. In the final stages of the disease, the victims are helpless, usually bedridden and cannot even feed or speak. As you can imagine, it is a challenge to take care of these patients especially for close family members. Though the victims do not experience any physical pain at the onset, the disease can cause a great deal of emotional pain to their loved ones considering that the victims eventually fail to even recognize even their loved ones. Alzheimer??s care thus deserves the caregivers to have patience and empathy for the sufferers. Alzheimer??s care for the sufferer??s should be geared to maintaining the sufferer??s dignity. According the book ??Alzheimer??s ? Caring for Your Loved One. Caring for Yourself??, the author Sharon Fish gives very practical ways of assisting those who are affected. She says, ??Find easy things to do together that are meaningful and productive.??alzheimersalzheimers sufferersstages of alzheimers
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Question by Stefanie Mathers: Statistics – IQR? Expected Cost? Experts possibly?
Hello,
I was wondering if you guys could help with me out with a few problems!
A researcher is researching the age at which patients are initially diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Suppose the age at which patients develop it is normally distributed with a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 4.6 years.
1) What is the probability a randomly selected patient was over age 70 upon initial diagnosis?
I think it is 50% because the mean is 70, and on a standard distribution the mean divides the graph into two halves, correct?
2) What is the IQR for the ages of these patients?
I know It is Q3 – Q1 which is .75 – .33 but there has to be more. Do I get the z score of the two values and just subtract them?
3) Suppose the cost is based upon the age of initial diagnosis. Suppose that the yearly cost is $ 2000 for patients that are 2.53 standard deviations below the mean in age,
$ 3000 for patients that are within 2.53 standard deviations below the mean or 2.53 standard deviations above the mean,
and $ 5000 for patients that are 2.53 standard deviations above the mean in age.
What is the expected cost?
Is it just (2000)(2.53) + (3000)(2.53) + (5000)(2.53)? I am completely lost on this one.
I did attempt the problems so any help would be appreciated.
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Answer by CPlusPlus Guru
1) Correct.
2) The IQR is the interquartile range of your distribution, or Q3 – Q1, the difference between the third and first quartile. So far, so good. But it isn’t the difference between 75% and 33%, or between 75% and 25%, but between the levels of your variable that lie above 75% and above 25% of outcomes – that’s what those two quartiles are.
For the standard normal distribution, Q3 = 0.6745, because P(Z<0.6745) = 0.75 (both numbers within 4 decimal places), and Q1 = -Q3 = -0.6745, because this (and every) normal distribution is symmetric about its mean. For *your* normal distribution, Q3 = mean + sigma * 0.6745 and Q1 = mean – sigma * 0.6745, so IQR = Q3 – Q1 = mean + sigma * 0.6745 – (mean – sigma * 0.6745) = 2 * sigma * 0.6745 = 2 * 4.6 * 0.6745 = 6.2054 years.
3) How *do* you calculate the expected cost? For each possible outcome (cost level), you multiply it by the probability it will occur, and add all such products. We’ll need the probability that a randomly chosen patient was (or is? or has developed the disease? I assume not) more than 2.53 standard deviations below the mean. That is P(Z< -2.53) = 0.0057. By symmetry, P(Z>2.53) = 0.0057. And the middle probability is P(-2.53
So the expected cost is $ 2000 * 0.0057 + $ 3000 * 0.9886 + $ 5000 * 0.0057 = $ 3005.70. (Notice that the probability distribution is symmetric, and the cost distribution is not, so the less costly younger patients do not offset the more costly older ones; still, the overall expected cost is not much different from that of the middle group, because that’s where almost 99% of the patients are.)
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Question by JayJay: Does ‘dying of natural causes’ mean something like Alzheimer’s or heart failure or something?
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Answer by Molly
Yes any disease or condition is a natural cause. An unnatural cause would be a car accident, falling off a cliff, overdose, being shot, eaten by wolves… you get the drift
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When it comes to alzheimer’s causes this video provides some great insights.
Brain Matters ResearchFAQ 6 The Brain Matters Research Facility in Delray Beach, Florida is one of the nations largest, private research organizations and stands at the forefront of Alzheimers disease research. Brain Matters Research is a vital segment of medical research that seeks to comprehend markers for the 5th largest cause of death in America today. The Brain Matters Research team has established a lengthy track record of major contributions to Alzheimers disease research.
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A question from Roshelle: Does exposure to aluminum cause Alzheimer’s diseas?
* Disease… sorry forgot the “e”
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Answer by Razmatazz
There is belief that some FORMS of Al are causes of Alzheimer’s. Example, the AL that is in some deodorant, I believe it is Aluminum Nitrate or something like that.
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A question asked by Kevin G: Does Tin Foil Cause Alzheimer’s ?
I heard somewhere that consuming a small piece of Tin foil cause’s Alzheimer’s for example you are making Cookies on a piece of tin foil , you scrap the cookie and pieces of tin foil is attach to the cookie without your knowledge and you eat the cookie.
or maybe piece’s of tin foil are on a pizza
does that help the process of alzheimers???
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Answer by wilderwriter
No, but if you make a helmet out of a large sheet of ‘tin foil’ (or, if you can’t find that in the store, try aluminum foil) and wear it constantly, you will protect yourself from the evil radio waves they are broadcasting at all of us every day.
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Question by Russian T: Lab Test Mix-up?
Mrs. Ward goes to the doctor’s office to collect her husband’s test results.
The lab tech says to her, “I’m sorry, ma’am, but there has been a big mix-up and we have a problem. When we sent your husband’s samples to the lab, the samples from another Mr. Ward were sent as well and we are now uncertain which one is your husband’s. Frankly, it is either bad or terrible.”
“What do you mean?” Mrs. Ward asked.
“Well, one has tested positive for Alzheimer’s and the other for AIDS. We can’t tell which is your husband.”
“That’s terrible! Can we do the test over?” questioned Mrs. Ward.
“Normally, yes. But Medicare won’t pay for these expensive tests more than once.”
“Well, what am I supposed to do now?”
“The people at the Hospital recommend that you drop your husband off in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don’t share a bed with him.”
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Answer by Kitty
Rofl!
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