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Neurodegenerative Diseases   Alzheimer's, ALS, Lou Gerhig's, Huntington's, Parkinson's  
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Causes of Deficits in Brain data processing   Injury, toxins, disinhibition  
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Most common from of dementia   Alz  
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Characteristic of Alz   Neurofibrillary Tangles and beta-amyloid Plaques  
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Theory of Alz   Inflammation response activated which kills all cells the area  
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Is it normal to have tangles?   Yes, they are part of the cytoskeleton  
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Is it normal to have plaques?   Yes, everyone has them  
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______ is correlated to Alz. severity.   Tangles  
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Normal Tau protein uses   make microtubles, transport nutrients  
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The normal Tau protein is capped or uncapped.   capped to give it stability  
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bAAP   beta amyloid  
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bAAP gene is found on what chromosome   21  
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bAAP leaves a fragment of what?   APP - protein amyloid precursor protein  
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Protein snipets are cleaned up in the Alz. brain?   no they clot and from amyloid plaques  
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Amyloid plaques gather where?   Between nerve cells  
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Amyloid plaque properites   insoluble, hard  
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Formation of B-amyloid plaques is a result from what?   missprocessing which lead to accumaltion of toxic levels of b-fragments  
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____ and ____ possibly activate the inflammation response.   Free radicals and b-amyloid plaques  
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Cause of Alz   Genetic (apo E), Toxic exposure, Nutritional Disorders, Free Radicals  
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Apo E (Apoliprotein E) normally...   is a carrier of cholesterol in the blood  
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Mutated ApoE binds to....   b-amyloid (makes it insolube) and Tau  
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The ventricals in an Alz brain are..   Larger  
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Nutritional deficets that might lead to Alz.   Vit E, B12, Thiamin, Zinc, Acetyl 1-carnitine  
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Areas affected by Alz   Cereberal Cortex ( Frontal Lobe) and Hippocampus (brain stem) as well as cholingeric neurons  
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The Cerebral Cortex is where we find..   reasoning, memory and learning  
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The temporal lobe is where we find...   memory formation  
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The Ventricles of an Alz brain are...   larger  
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Cholinergic neurons degenerated within...   18 months  
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Gyri size in a Alz brain is....   enlarged  
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The only Rx for Alz now   Aricept  
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Risk of Aricept   Brings ct back to place of awareness of actually having alz  
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Over time these skills/ areas are effected by Alz   language memory  
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