TERM 1
HBO the Alzheimer's project
DEFINITION 1
Brain looses massive amounts of tissue during gumming
processlesions in the brain
TERM 2
testing:
DEFINITION 2
asking questions that strain the brain MRI of the brain: couldn't
diagnose them until death up until 10 years ago, now we can look
at the brain and see the tangles.alois - stained brain tissues after
deathliving brain - Pittsburgh Compoun d B (PIB) - radioactive
tracer, restrain person to prevent m ovement and enhance focus,
inherited geneshippocampus can be affected by age related and
alz. memory lossdementia stops at hic campus, alz spreads to
other areas
TERM 3
behavioral stand point:
DEFINITION 3
short term memory is downmore than symptoms of getting
olderdepressionmood changesloss of activityage related
memory loss - prefrontal lobe, hippocampusalz. - short term
and long term memory lossloosing infromation over
timepossibly processed differently
TERM 4
root causes:
DEFINITION 4
nerve tanglesbeta amyloid plaques - tau tangles (nerve)
used in testingtau protein stabilizes transport system in
nerve cellsdendrites decay, accumulation occurs years
before symptoms appearstarts in entoranal cortexsome parts
of the brain ramp up, hippocampus works harder, looses
activation as time goes on
TERM 5
treatment:
DEFINITION 5
antibodies, anti amyloid.
