Essay On Alzheimer's

Alzheimer’s. One of the most recognizable forms of dementia around the world, a disease that effects over 5 million Americans around the United States. This disease progressively degenerates and wreaks havoc on the brain that gives the results of memory loss, thinking, and their overall general behavior. It effects parts of the frontal and temporal lobes of the cerebrum of the brain. Unfortunately, Doctors everywhere don’t necessarily know what causes Alzheimer’s, making it much harder to find the means of preventing this disease completely; As far as we know now, old age is the most prominent factor for getting Alzheimer’s. Although we are unable to fully prevent it now, we do have some treatment plans for different levels of the disease:

They think this is important because when you have Alzheimer’s, it causes your brain to produce less and less of this substance(acetylcholine), so it is believed that if they can halter or slow down the progression of the breakdown of this substance it can help prevent or slow down Alzheimer’s as well. In order to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer’s, they are still prescribing pills, but some of these pills now include pills that help to regulate a chemical called glutamate, which when produced in large amounts, helps kill of brain cells, so by doing this helps the progression of the severity of Alzheimer’s. With how many people are effected in the United States by this dreadful disease, we need to divert our efforts in finding ways to prevent this disease, along with the leading causes so we can better understand the genetics and science behind Alzheimer’s. Not only does it affect so many Americans every year, it is also on the top 10 list for the most deadly diseases in the United States, along with also being in the top 10 of leading causes of death in adults, and in the top 5 list of leading deaths among those 65 years or