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Degenerative Brain Diseases

Our brain is considered as the central processing unit of our body.  Our thoughts, speech, movement and even our memory are controlled by it. 

Since it primarily controls the performance of our organs, it is essential to make it healthy.  Otherwise, it could be utterly devastating.Brain disease could steer to other health problems like paralysis, vision loss and weakness.  When one suffered stroke, brain cells are lost.  Thus, the capability to contemplate clearly is also affected.  Brain disease’ symptoms vary in a lot of scenarios.  Damage is undeviating in some circumstances.  On the other hand, there are brain diseases that can be treated through medicines, surgery or physical therapy.  

Multiple sclerosis also known as disseminated sclerosis or in layman’s term known as multiple scars is a degenerative brain disease that damages the myelin sheaths which aid axons in conducting signals from one neuron to another neuron.  The spinal cord, optic nerves and white portion of the brain are all affected.  The first symptom experienced by most of the victims is partial paralysis or loss of vision in one eye.  This type of disease mostly affects young adults.    

Another type of degenerative brain disease is the so called Huntington’s chores.  Statistics show that 6 out of 100, 000 people between the ages of zero and 45 have this type of disease.  This brain disease damages basal ganglia and cerembrum.  As a result, patients may undergo involuntary movements in their body, hands, feet and faces.

Parkinson’s disease is also another type of degenerative brain disease which attacks people between the age of 50 and 75.  This type of diseases causes poor balance, shaking limbs, shuffling steps, blank faces, eyes staring at nowhere and handwriting becomes small and cramped.

 

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Degenerative-Diseases-Of-The-Eye      ARMD or Age Related Macular Degenerative disease is the primary cause of vision forfeiture mostly in people older than 65.  This type of eye disease may cause central vision loss.  It is estimated to affect 500,000 people each year, worldwide. More..

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