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Alzheimer
Alzheimer's illness is a progressive dementia illness of the brain which occurs mainly in old age and is accompanied by a decrease of the brain and memory performance. The illness starts with apparently coincidental forgetfulness and ends in the loss of the intellect. One talks about präseniler dementia before the 65th year of life after the 65th year of life of a senile dementia of the Alzheimer type.
At the beginning of the 20th century she became Alzheimer for the first time by the doctor Alois at the patient Auguste D. as illness of physiological origin, not psychological, diagnosed. The illness independently was approximately described by Oskar Fischer at the same time who was working in Prague at the psychiatric clinic. The name after Alois Alzheimer was made by Emil Kraepelin in his textbook of the psychiatry 1911.
It comes to the degeneration of certain neurons and through this, at patients to disturbances at language, the intellectual capacity and the memory to disturbances of the normal cerebralen functions what leads. The brain mass decreases in the course of the illness, one talks about a brain atrophy. As triggers of the cell loss intrazelluläre deposits of a fragment of the protein APP are primarily discussed at the moment. Furthermore important Neurotransmitter, among other things Acetylcholin are no more produced in sufficient quantities, what leads to a general performance weakening of the brain.
Symptoms
First symptoms are gaps in the memory. The symptoms grow in later stadia of the illness so that the patient gets more and more directionless. The near relation fallen ill doesn't recognize final stage any more and it adds to the control loss and serious coordination disturbances in this.
Therapy
One gives therapy to the Alzheimer dementia primarily with Acetylcholinesterase-Hemmer, which reduce the reduction of Acetylcholin at present. Through this the Acetylcholinspiegel is increased in the synaptischen opening and slows down the progressing of the illness. Furthermore other symptoms are these can occur in the course of the illness as unrest, depressive ill-feeling or excitement and aggressiveness treated with the help of certain psychopharmacological drugs. Till now, a cure isn't possible.
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