1. Medical Overview - Alzheimer's Disease
According to statistics, about 3 percent of men and women ages 65 to 74 and nearly half of those 85 and older have Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's is a chronic disease, which starts slowly and get worse over time and no recovery. The disease will slowly attack the nerve cell in the parts of the cortex of the brain, thus impairing person's abilities to govern emotions, recognize errors and patterns, coordinate movement, and remember. How do people find they have this disease and how will the disease be treated by people? Alzheimer identified the first case of this disease. A fifty-year-old woman, who was his patient, he called her Auguste D. He followed this case until she died after years of serious memory problem. After she died in 1906, doctors recorded the dense deposits surrounding the nerve cells when they preformed a brain autopsy. He reported publicly at the same year she died. In the next five years, there were eleven similar cases reported. Some of them were already use the word "Alzheimer's Disease." The cause of Alzheimer's disease is poorly understood. Scientists and doctors believe this disease is caused by a combination of genetics, lifestyle and environmental factors. Although the causes of Alzheimer's are not complete, its effect on people is clear. This disease is usually in those over the age of 65. Also, a person has close relationship with the person who has Alzheimer's, such as mother, father or sister, has increased possibility of getting this disease. The scientist also consider the level of education is one of the factors. This disease passes by gene. .
The early symptom of AD, which is in a small percentage, difficulties with language, executive functions, perception (agnosia), or execution of movements (apraxia) are more prominent than memory problems. Distant memories (episodic memory), facts (semantic memory), and implicit memory (the memory of body on doing something that we always do, like dressing yourself) are affect less than the new things at the beginning.
This then has repercussions for those who develop mental disorders, take for example those who suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia. The disease which is names after the man who first described it, Alois Alzheimer, it introduces problems with cognitive behaviours and ultimately affects memory problem solving and language. ... Or in the case of someone who developed Alzheimer's would they then become abnormal when diagnosed? ... When treating a patient who is suffering from depression, bipolar disorder or Alzheimer's di...
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At times I found it very confusing because it seems as if Willy is getting Alzheimer's disease, even though he has no trouble remembering things. ... I don't know if that is a symptom of Alzheimer's or not, but I believe the author was trying to show that he wasn't in a right state of mind. ...
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Introduction The IBM POWER4 is a newer microprocessor that was designed for hi-end servers and supercomputers, which are 32-way symmetric multiprocessor systems (SMP systems). The POWER4 not only refers to the actual chip but also to the structure used to interconnect chips to form systems. The POWER4 has a high fault-tolerance; when a critical fail occurs the system doesn't just hang instead, interrupts are generated and then processed by the system. Earlier IBM Power and Power PC processors were subdivided into chips for servers (POWER) and scientific machines (RS64), however the P...