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Memory Loss and Its Prevention

July 3, 2016 By Brian Galloway Leave a Comment

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The loss of memory can be a symptom of many medical conditions, from alcohol abuse to dementia.

FDA released a new info note on memory loss and its potential in signaling more serious diseases. Not every forgetfulness moment is a sign of illness. However, there are several details that can help a person to distinguish between a normal memory lapse caused by fatigue and one resulting from cognitive deterioration.

The signs of serious issues are related to the density of memory errors and their impact on the daily activities. For example, forgetting how to balance a checkbook or how to drive, or skipping on personal hygiene, could be indicators of brain malfunctions.

Moreover, if the memory lapses reoccur on a permanent basis, even if the details may be insignificant, a person could be restricted from performing day to day activities and from maintaining social, medical and professional activities.

Another aggravating factor is the progressive nature of the events that involve memory loss.

In order to prevent an occasional memory loss, a person could control the blood pressure and the cholesterol levels. Avoiding smoking and alcohol drinking could also improve the memory function. A healthy diet and social activities could both benefit the brain.

Moreover, keeping the mind active by writing, reading, playing games, and learning new things could also improve brain functions.

Memory loss can be induced by many factors and situations. It can be a symptom of many illnesses, such as depression, HIV infection, syphilis, tuberculosis, thyroid problems, or head injuries. Other memory disturbance elements are the lack of sleep, low levels of B1 and B12 vitamins, drug use, and heavy drinking.

For each of the situations above, the correct treatment for the disease or medical condition will also lead to an improvement in memory functions.

Experts also notice that forgetting things is a part of the normal aging process. Cognitive impairment is diagnosed only when the difficulties are beyond the expected level for a certain age.

The gravest form of memory loss appears in dementia, a degenerative disease that affects the cognitive functioning of the brain. The medical condition completely disturbs daily activities and prevents an aged person from acting independently.

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of cognitive impairment in old age. The condition involves a progressive loss of brain cells. More than 5 million people in the US are suffering from a form of dementia.

To prevent cognitive degradation, the experts recommend regular exercise, a healthy diet, mental stimulation, quality sleep, stress management and an active social life.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: active life, alzheimer, brain exercises, drinking, fatigue, lack of sleep, memory loss, Smoking, substance use, the normal aging process

New Biotech Firm All Set To Find Treatment of Alzheimer, Parkinson and ALS

December 16, 2014 By Deborah Nielsen Leave a Comment

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Yumanity therapeutics declared to work on neurodegenerative disease. Currently, there are almost 50 million people in this world who suffers from multiple kind of neurodegenerative disease.

The term neurodegenerative are used for several medical conditions that can affect the performance and structure of nerves.  Such sort of continuous loss of structure and function lead to numerous other diseases such as Alzheimer, Huntington, ALS and Parkinson.

Unfortunately, scientists have failed to find a proper cure or treatment which can slow down the speed of neurodegenerative. The doctors merely prescribe drugs to patients which can treat the symptoms of neurodegenerative. They are still unaware of the method through which they can cut the root cause of these diseases. Hence, it makes treatment more complex task for patients. Patients have to spend a large amount of money only to decelerate the symptoms. As per the recent report, the yearly cost for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease is around $650

The chief aim of Yumanity Therapeutics is to battles with the unbearable ailments. The firm joined with a team of experts who are considered as specialists of this disease.

Tony Coles, the CEO of the company said that he love to work on big challenges.  The appropriate treatment for this disease is usually considered as an impossible task.

The researchers inform that the first step is to carefully analyze the protein misfolding. Everyone knows that these neurodegenerative diseases emerge due to the cellular misfolding of proteins.  Therefore, the scientists intend to closely examine the strands which are needed for the correct folding of protein.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: ALS, alzheimer, cure, Huntington, neurodegenerative disease, Parkinson, symptoms, treatment

Common Cold Sores Two-folds Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease, Two New Studies Revealed

October 25, 2014 By Brian Galloway 3 Comments

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According to the two recent studies, herpes simplex virus infection increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, being a carrier of certain antibodies against the virus two-folds the risk.

Herpes Simplex is the causing agent of common cold sores. The infection caused by this virus affects almost 90% of the population. The American Academy of Dermatology stated, “getting this virus for just one time makes the person its carrier for lifetime.”

Dr. Hugo Lovheim, study author and an associate professor in the community medicine and rehabilitation department at Umea University in Sweden said, “The findings of the study is a breakthrough.”

He further stated that, “Either the treatment of Herpes infection with antiviral drugs might slow the Alzheimer’s progression is not yet known, but is definitely worth investigating in clinical studies.”

As no clear mechanism was mentioned in the study, other experts didn’t accept the correlation between herpes infection and Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Sam Gandy, director of the Center for Cognitive Health at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City stated that, “From time to time data, such as these appear in the literature, but they do not address causality or mechanism. The new data are similarly not definitive, and they do not say anything new about the association.”

Herpes virus eventually weakens the immune system of the body which enables the virus to spread to the brain where it leads the person towards dementia, study authors wrote.

In one of the studies, researchers followed 3,500 people for about 11 years and found that having certain antibodies against herpes virus doubled the chances of getting Alzheimer’s disease.

In another study, researchers took blood samples of 360 Alzheimer’s patients on average 9.6 years before the disease was diagnosed in them. Then they compared the samples with blood samples of healthy individuals and found no Alzheimer’s and herpes infection relation. However, when the samples of the people taken 6.6 years before were analyzed, significant association was found between the both.

Lovheim said, “Our analysis reveals that the herpes virus causes a significant proportion of all cases of Alzheimer’s disease — nearly 40 to 50 percent.”

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 3500, alzheimer, Dr. Hugo Lovheim, Dr. Sam Gandy, herpes simplex virus, Herpes Virus, immune system

Excessive Intake of Anxiety And Sleeping Pills Can Cause Alzheimer

September 10, 2014 By Jason Leathers Leave a Comment

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It is confirmed that long-term use of sleeping tablets taken by millions of patients has been related to a 50 per cent possibility of Alzheimer’s disease in the future, according to a latest study whose authors say unwanted use of the drugs is very dangerous for health concern.

The danger is mostly strong for long-term consumers of the commonly prescribed drugs, there is a proved evidence that benzodiazepine use enhances the possibility of Alzheimer’s disease and the researchers advise people should not be using the drugs for longer than three months.

On the other hand, other specialists said the results may reveal facts that people who are already in the early stages of Alzheimer’s are often treated for sleep problems and anxiety and this is confusing the findings, even if an increased risk of dementia has been identified in benzodiazepine users, the nature of this involvement whether causal or not, stays unclear.

However, these medicines would have been given to cure symptoms of insomnia and anxiety and it is possible that the person will suffer from the initial indications of unidentified Alzheimer’s disease, although the authors have tried to give precaution tips to prevent for this disease as far as was possible in their study.

The head of the Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory in Sydney, Dr Bryce Vissel, said physicians should more carefully examine the patients of anxiety, he further said dementia is a rising problem in Australia and the study highlighted a serious health concern problem when such high numbers of older and adults are using the sleeping drugs.

They compared 1796 cases of Alzheimer’s disease to consequences of 7184 healthy people of the young age and gender over a six-year window, the whole research shows that anxiety medication will directly affect the nervous system, memory power and brain cells.

The authors also said their findings are particularly significant because there are a very small number of medicines available to treat Alzheimer’s disease, with the help of this report doctors might change prescribing habits and give safe advises to decrease people’s risk of developing dementia.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: alzheimer, Anxiety pills, intake, sleeping pills

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