Neuroscience Project

Impact on the brain

Daily LIfe

The daily life of someone with Alzheimers disease is they'll need a caregiver. They can do things on there own it's just gonna be real difficult for them to do it. They also take meds if they have any and play memory games and do anything else they want to do.

Causes- Some causes of Alzheimers disease are heart disease, diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure and high cholesterol. It can also be casued by abnormal build-up of proteins in and around brain cells.

Causes, Symmptons, & Cure

Symptons- Here are some early symptons of Alzheimers disease: memory loss that disrupts daily life, losing track of dates or knowing current location, taking longer to complete normal daily tasks, repeating questions or forgetting recently learned information, and poor judgement leading to bad decsions.

Cure- There is no cure alzheimer's disease, but there is medication to reduce the symptoms

This disease effects the parietal lobe specifically the left side in the region of the angular gyrus. The functions this disease effetcts are poor handwritting, poor spelling skills, and dificulty with math functions, such as add, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing.

Impact on the brain

The daily life of someone living with this disease is difficult, espically for a child. Having trouble reading, spelling, they will take speacil classes.

Daily Life

Casues- It can occur after a having a stroke or any damage to the parietal lobe.

Symptons - Writting disability, lack of understanding the rules of caculations and arithmetic, not able to pick out right from left, and not being able to identify fingers.

Causes Symptons & Cure

Cure- There is no cure for this syndrome but you can be symptomatic and supportive. Also you can take speech therapies.

Impact on the brain

A blind indivisual can bascially do everything a sighted individual can do with the help of technology or products, and their own power. A blind individual can be independent.

Daily Life

Causes- Blindness can be casued by several fctors sush as genetics, environmental, and accidental

Symptoms- cloudy vision, an inability to see shapes, seeing only shadows, poor night vision, tunnel vision

Casues, Symptons, & Cure

Cure: Restoring eye-sight has alaways been seen as a miracle, so there isn't a cure but there it, you can get surgery.

This disease affects the temporal lobe in the brain. This diseas damage nureons in the temporal lobe making it difficult for people preform many task on there own.

Impact on the brain

People living with FTD may have difficulty with basic skills. Activities that were easy before might take much longer or become impossible. Many FTD patinet familes become embasrssed by there behavior, life at home can be stressful. Caregivers are extemly important in the life of someone with FTD.

Daily Life

Cause- clumps of abnormal protein forming inside brain cells

Symptoms - Unuasl or antisocial beahvior, loos of speech or language

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cures- There is no cure for FTD and there is no treatments to slow or stop the progression of the disease, but there are ways to help manage the symptoms.

Lewy body dementia effects Amygdala in the Limbic system. It can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood

Impact on the brain

The daily life of someone with this diease is rough. You have problems with understanding, thinking, memeory and judgement. You'll also have low movement and stiff limbs and tremors.

Daily Life

Causes- Tiny clumps of proteins known as Lewy bodies appear in the nerve cells of the brain.

Symptoms- Changes in thinking and reasoning, Spontaneous parkinsonism with slowness of movement, rest tremor, or rigidity, Memory loss that may be significant, but less prominent than in Alzheimer's, &Trouble interpreting visual information.

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cure- There is no cure to stop this disease. There is no treatment to stop the progression of this disease.

Epilepsy diseases effects the hippocampus part of the brain. This disease affect their consciousness, movements or sensations.

Impact on the brain

Daily life of someone with this disease can be exhausting becasue you can have a sezuire at any given momment. It's very overwhelming but you can manage the effects the disease have on your day to day activities.

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Causes- Neurological issues, genetic abnormalities, prior brain infection, prenatal injuries or developmental disorders.

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Symptoms- Tempory confusion, A staring spell, Stiff muscles, Uncontrollable jerking of the arm and leg, loss of awareness, Psychological symptoms such as fear, anxiety or deja vu.

Cure- There is no cure for epilepsy, but there are treatments

The part of the brain amblyopia effects is the Thalamus. This effect the part of the brain that involes visual proscess that did not funstion properly.

Impact on the brain

The daily life of someone with amblyopia is normal. They live an normal life just like eveyone else.

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Causes- Muscle Imbalance, Difference in sharpness of vision between the eyes, and Deprivation

Symptoms- An eye that wanders inward adn outward, eyes that appear to not wok togehter, poor depth perseption, squinting or shutting an eye, head tilting, and Abnormal results of vision screening tests.

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cure- There are treatments you can use if your child is diagnosed in the early stages. Treatments or vision therapy

The part of the brain thyrotropin effect is the hypothalamus. Those hormones control many things including a persons metabolic rate, heat generation, neuromuscular function and heart rate, among other things.

Impact on the brain

Can be difficult because those hormones control the body's metabolic rate, heat generation, neuromuscular function and heart rate, and many other things.

Daily Life

Causes - When their thyroid produces low levels of hormones.

Symptoms- Fatigue, Numbness and tingling in your hands, Constipation, Unexplained weight gain, Depression, Being unable to tolerate cold temperatures, Decreased interest in sex, & Frequent and heavy menstrual periods.

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cure- Treatment: daily use of the synthetic thyroid hormone levothyroxine

The part of the brain ataxia affects is the cerebellum. It makes it difficult for patients with this disease to walk, control there balance, hand coordination, speech swallowing, and eye movements.

Impact on the brain

The daily Life of someone with this disease is crucial and difficult. They have trouble walking, eating, and other things. Also you may need a caregiver to come help and take care of you.

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Causes- Damage to the part of the brain that controls muscle coordination

Symptoms- Poor coordination, walking unsteadily or with the feet set wide apart, Poor balance, Difficulty with fine motor tasks, such as eating, writing or buttoning a shirt, Change in speech, Involuntary back-and-forth eye movements, and Difficulty swallowing

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cure- There is no cure nor treatment for this disease.

The part of the brain acid reflux affect is the medulla. This causes headaches and migraines

Impact on the brain

Daily life with acid reflux may interf with physical activity, impairing social functioning and reduce productivity at work.

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Casues - Certain foods and drinks, beiing overweight, smoking, and pregnancy

Symptoms- Burning senstation in your throat, Upper abdominal or chest pain, Trouble swallowing, and Sensation of a lump in your throat

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cures- Medication

The part of the brain this disease afffect is the Pon. This disease damage the myelin sheath which protects the covering around nerve cells. This can casues low sodium levels.

Impact on the brain

The daily life of someone with this disease is difficult, espically if your is so servre it leads to a coma.

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Causes- Too rapid medical correction of sodium deficiency.

Symptoms- Confusion, delirium, hallucinations, Balance problems, tremor, Problem swallowing, Slurred speech, Weakness in the face, arms, or legs, usually affecting both sides of the body, and Reduced alertness, drowsiness or sleepiness, lethargy, poor responses.

Causes,Symptoms,& Cures

Cures- There is no cure, but there is treatment to reduce the systems.

Strokes impact the Broca's Area. Brain cells are lost, meaning brain cells dead so some functions you may not be able to do on your own. Such as speeaking, eating, thinking, ability to move, walking on your own, and plenty more.

Impact on the brain

Someone living after having a stroke can be difficult, since brain cells have dies, and sicne they have died you lose function for different things such as you ability to move, speak, eat, think and remember. Controling your bowel and bladder. Controling your emotions and controling other vital body functions.

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Causes - A blocked artery or leaking or bursting of a blood vessel.

Symptoms - numbness or weakness in the face, arm, or leg, Sudden confusion, trouble speaking, or difficulty understanding speech, Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes, Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance, or lack of coordination.

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cures- Surgeries, Medications

The part of the brain this disease affect is the Wernicke's Area. You can have lodd of muscle corrdination that can casue leg tremors, vision changes, and more.

Impact on the brain

Daily Life

Daily life of someone with these disease is difficult because you can have tremors and that can be difficult for there day to day activites.

Casue- Lack of thiamine (vitimain B1)

Symptoms- Confusion and loss of mental activity

Causes, Symptoms, & Cures

Cure - It can be reversed if detected and treated promptly and completely.