What are the top diseases of the brain that affect memory?

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this is for a science project; plz get back 2 me asap on this
Alzheimer's is probably the most well known neurodegenerative disease. Others are Huntington's Disease, Binswanger's Disease, Lewy Dementia, Frontotemperal Dementia, and a few others.  (+ info)

Know of any brain diseases or damage?

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I need to know about unusal brain diseases or damage- forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain. Anything you know will help. PLEASE I need to pass psychology. Please please please!!!
Frontal lobe dementia which hits people as young as 50 with the same symptoms as Alzheimers.

Meningitis which is an inflamation of the lining of the brain.

Concussion syndrome which leads to depression or Parkinson-type symptoms..  (+ info)

Is schizophrenia related to other brain diseases such as dementia or senility?

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The brains of 125 schizophrenic patients (DSM-IV criteria) without other major diseases likely to affect brain morphology were examined at autopsy in our hospital for an evaluation of the number of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) and senile plaques (SP) as indicators of the incidence of Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain pathology. The clinical degree of dementia and the presence or absence of delirium and Parkinsonism were determined in a review of the patients' charts. No significant difference in the degree of AD brain pathology between the 12 schizophrenics more than 75 years old and 12 age-matched normal controls was present. We conclude that AD pathology seems to be no more frequent among schizophrenic patients than in the normal population, and that the severe cognitive impairment observed in schizophrenics is based on neither neuronal degeneration nor neuronal loss like that occurring in AD. We believe that future morphological studies of cognitive impairments in schizophrenics will require a more detailed investigation at the receptor level.


Schizophrenia has an early onset, with late progression of cognitive impairment in some people; Alzheimer’s disease has a late onset but early progression of impairment in all, Dr. Borson said as she set the stage for her discussion. There are no universally accepted genetic causes of schizophrenia, and the neuropathology of cognitive disorders in schizophrenia and schizophrenia itself is very obscure, she added, while in Alzheimer’s disease, there are certain genes that cause the disease and others that increase risk, and the neuropathology is definitive.

Likewise, imaging studies of schizophrenia reveal deficits in the front parts of the brain and changes in temporal regions, but imaging studies in Alzheimer’s disease show posterior brain deficits with characteristic temporal deficits. “So there are considerable differences in clinical features and in underlying factors,” she said, “but cognitive dysfunction in both Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia is a powerful predictor of functional disability.”



De Vries et al1 suggested that dementia in schizophrenia seems to be a real entity with neuropsychological signature similar to that of frontotemporal dementia. This was based on clinical data in eight patients with chronic schizophrenia aged 28 to 64 years presenting with cognitive impairment and evidence of a dementia syndrome not sufficiently explained by their schizophrenic symptoms, However, except for frontal or temporal hypoperfusion on SPECT, they found no characteristic structural imaging abnormalities and, in accordance with Harrison,2 concluded that dementia in elderly schizophrenic patients shows no evidence of any known neurodegenerative disorder and, therefore, requires novel neuropathological explanation. Several recent postmortem studies on such patients showed no excess of Alzheimer's disease or other organic dementing syndromes. This is in line with a personal retrospective study of 99 consecutive necropsy cases of schizophrenic patients aged over 55 (mean age 69.5 (SD 8.25) years) with mean duration of illness of 35.15 (SD 10.1) years, 56% . . .


It's now separate.
Once upon a time - perhaps up until 50 years ago - schizophrenia in young people was referred to as dementia praecox (I think the literal meaning is premature dementia). Then at some stage we had hebephrenic schizophrenia - childlike schizophrenia.
Nowdays all of those classifications are out.
It's now recognized that dementia includes a wide range of confusional states - some acute; some chronic. Some caused by physical illnesses and some organic brain disease.
Meanwhile it's understood that memory and even orientation are often quite intact in schizophrenia, which usually appears episodically. Also, people can achieve some recovery and at least some remission in schizophrenic symptoms.
In contrast, dementias (other than acute conditions due to some illness like a urinary tract infection) tend to be progressive.



Late-Onset Schizophrenia Can Lead to Dementia:
A recent Australian study found that many people who develop symptoms of schizophrenia when they are 50 years of age or older decline rapidly into dementia. There is good news too, however.
The symptoms of older schizophrenic patients who do not develop this rapid decline in their mental capacities improve over time.
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental illness. Approximately 1 percent of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime. Schizpophrenia alters a person's emotions, thought processes and perceptions of reality. Symptoms can include apathy, hallucinations and delusions.  (+ info)

Name one or 2 brain diseases that run in the family and explain them?

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i ve bin searching the internet and i cant find any and its not homework
This sounds like homework to me.
Did you not pay attention in class?!

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Alzheimer's disease does run in families, but not 100% of the time.

Schizophrenia is thought to be down to a combination of genetic (which run in a family) and social factors. So not entirely hereditory, but a persons genetics could put them at a higher risk.

For future questions like this, you should try saying why you want to know, because this looked like another teen trying to get someone else to do their homework for them, and nobody wants to do someone elses homework!
Best to let us see its genuine!

:o)  (+ info)

can anyone tell me what rare brain diseases start with an o ?

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its a really long name and i know there is an abbrevation for it . any name that starts with an O would be good.
I would suggest that you check webmd.com. You will not only find the answer you are looking for, but there will be a lot of information regarding the disease.  (+ info)

Are there any diseases to the brain that effect how a person would act?

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things that arent so common like special ed schizophrenia, bipolar, split personality.

do you have anything along those lines but not those thing rare or common??
goshh. no duhh altimers, i mean something that isnt superrr known..haha zombie???
Zombie?  (+ info)

What are the impacts of stomach diseases on brain?

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whats the study of study of the brain and brain disorders and diseases?

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and what are people who work in this area called?

thanks
dealing with conditions like Schizophrenia
DID
Depression
Aspergers syndrome
& more
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Does too much metal in cells cause brain diseases like Alzheimers?

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I mean mercury and others like it, acquired from the environment.
There is an observed association between heavy metal build up in the brain and a variety of neurological conditions. This includes Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Autism.

Scientifically, this isn't the same as saying "X causes Y," but it is certainly something to pay attention to and studies continue along these lines.

Some people have already jumped to the point where they say "Aluminum causes Alzheimer's" and "Mercury causes Autism." There's a good chance this is true, but scientifically this is like saying that if you found a rock at your camp site and there was a bear in your camp site as well, the rock must have attracted the bear.

So you have to decide for yourself "gee, do I want deposits of mercury in my brain and how do I go about reducing them or avoiding them?"

Decades from now "common society" may look upon the history of putting mercury in dental fillings and vaccinations as being about as intelligent as putting lead in paint and gasoline. At one point, some people tried to argue that was safe too.

This is how many carcinogens are found as well. If you find deposits of parabens in breast cancer tissue, there's a good reason to suspect that parabens might have carcinogenic properties...if you look at the labels of most skin care products, they're all preserved with parabens.

But the official stance from skin care companies is that parabens are "safe." For now, you have to decide if you want to go out of your way to find product that don't have parabens.  (+ info)

Why do people treat diseases of the brain (e.g. manic depression and schizophrenia) differently?

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If you have a disease of the brain people think that you can change it or that it is sometimes imagined. When people have diseases of other organs, such as the heart, skin, etc. I think that they are treated much differently. Why do you think that is? The brain is an organ too.
I notice people are treated differently with mental illness many people in my family/friends also have it notice it too. I've always believed as it's something not "visible" like someone in a wheelchair for instance or as hear able like other illnesses it's harder for many to accept. And as we all go through these feelings of sadness at least periodically, they feel "why can't they just cheer up" type deal is what they don't understand. But of course that doesn't make it any less real, and hopeful fully with more time & knowledge people can be more understanding.  (+ info)

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