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Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
AD is a progressive debilitating and eventually fatal neurological illness affecting an estimated 4-5 million Americans. It is the most common form of dementive illness, a major killer in America today, ranked as the fourth leading cause of death after heart disease, cancer and stroke. Can last up to 25 years.
AD is a progressive debilitating and eventually fatal neurological illness affecting an estimated 4-5 million Americans. It is the most common form of dementive illness, a major killer in America today, ranked as the fourth leading cause of death after heart disease, cancer and stroke. Can last up to 25 years.
Creutsfeldt-Jakob (CJD) CJD is a rarre, fatal brain disorder caused by an unknown organism, possibly a virus, that can be transmitted from patients to animals and from one animal to another. The disease causes mental deterioration and a variety of neurological symptoms, and usually leads to death within a year of onset. (Source: NIH Pamphlet, Scientific and Health Reports, Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke.)
Multi-Infarct Dementia (MID)
Something clogs or blocks a small artery in the brain, causing a loss of circulation beyond the blocked area. When the blood supply is blocked off for a long time, the cells die, leaving a hole. Individuals with a history of arrhythmias, irregular heart rhythms, may be particularly vulnerable to this type of problem. (Source: The Loss of Self, Donna Cohen, Ph.D and Carl Eisdorfer, Ph.D.., M.D.)
Picks Disease Clinically presents very similar symptoms to Alzheimer's disease, rigidity and pronounced gasping and sucking release phenomenon, lasts approximately 7 years. (Alzheimer's & Other Dementias, R. Murray, M.D.)
Binswanger's Disease First described by Otto Binswanger in 1894. This is another rare disease. Clinically, Binswanger's appears as a dementia syndrome, a deterioration of intellectual capacity characterized by disturbances in memory, orientation, language, and performance of tasks, with loss of awareness that such changes are occurring. Such difficulties are never a part of normal aging, and always represent some type of disease process. (Source: Stolen Mind. Myma Doernberg.)
Parkinson's Disease This is a chronic disorder of the central nervous system of variable progression and severity. Clinically, the disease is characterized by rigidity, a resting tremor, bradykinesia, and gait disorder. There can be speech impairment. There is a growing awareness of dementia among Parkinson's disease patients, however, other mental changes may also occur such as changes that consist of drug related episodic confusional states. Depression frequently accompanies Parkinson's disease. (Source: Alzheimer's Disease. The Standard Reference, Barry Reisberg, MD.)
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