CADASIL: Genetic Stroke Disorder

In general, dementia is defined as “a deterioration of cognitive functioning that impacts one’s ability to meet the intellectual demands of their daily life” (Maitra, 2007, p 184). Though there are multiple types of dementia, there is no specific testing to diagnose these different types. The symptoms and behavioral effects of the disease are used to help the doctor determine which form of dementia the patient most likely has. Symptoms can either onset slowly or show up as a rapid decline in ones cognitive function (Maitra, 2007). A few of the most common forms of dementia include Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, Parkinson’s disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and normal pressure hydrocephalus.

With this type of Dementia, the symptoms can be very different due to how badly the blood vessel are damaged after having the stroke.

Early signs of dementia Early signs of dementia aren 't as severe as they can be as the diseas in the person sometimes people have bad memory loss and can potentially forget their daily routines (go to work, pick up kids from school have confusion with the date, time or place and the people with dementia could have trouble understanding simple conversations Younger-onset dementia Younger- onset dementia is when the age of 65 get dementia and this is mostly caused by Huntington 's people under disease when your brain cells die off and leave you being unable or hardly able to move or talk people can Huntington 's disease is or 30 to 50. This disease is also an inherited disease meaning that it has get Huntington 's disease at the more common age come through the genes of your family Dejectedly Huntington 's disease is like dementia as is has no cure but researchers are still working on it to make the suffering lives better. This disease is also called Early-onset dementia Statistics of dementia by 2025 There are more than 413,106 Aussies that have to live forms of dementia and that is anticipated to rise to 536,164 60,000 The amount of People suffering from Early onset dementia is also expected to rise to

Some people may have symptoms that suggest there is a brain tumor, others have no obvious symptoms. Usually, patients experience long-term headaches (usually worse in the morning), vision changes or visual disturbances, fits/seizures/convulsions, difficulty thinking and speaking or finding words, personality changes, tingling or stiffness in one side of the body, problems balancing or walking, nausea, and/or

Every week I would drive one hundred miles round trip to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. I would consult with numerous specialized doctors that I had waited months to secure an appointment with. Doctor appointments became my new normal. I was informed that I had a rare genetic disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. This diagnosis would leave me to test my resilience and it would also make me grow up quickly to manage the new responsibilities of balancing health and school.

Mixed dementia is another type of dementia, it is the combination of Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia or in general it is the conditions where changes can be represented with considering more than one type of dementia which occurs simultaneously in the brain, thus this type of dementia causes 10% of dementia cases. The symptoms of this type of dementia is that it depends on the type of dementia that are occurred simultaneously in the brain but it may have the same symptoms of Alzheimer’s type of dementia.

- Age: After 65 the risk will increase, symptoms can start developing as early as their 30s for people with rare genetic changes.

According to a study, 95% of Iraq veterans experience some kind of stress caused by war experiences (PTSD VA, 1). This stress can vary immensely. Vets can experience pain if they see any reminders of the war. The slightest reminder can cause severe pain. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is the dysregulation of body and brain chemistry. PTSD has varied causes, which negatively impact the victim, his or her family, and the society in which the victim lives in; however, many treatments are available for the victim to ease the impact on his or her future.

The condition is progressive and worsens over time; in the later stages, people with dementia become unable to carry out everyday activities and find it difficult to convey their thoughts and feelings. As the symptoms become more profound, they

Alzheimer 's disease is a serious disease that affects more than five million Americans. This disease doesn 't just affect the person who has it, families are drastically affected too. In many cases, caregivers are needed to insure the person can be safe. Alzheimer 's disease comes with warning signs, and the warning signs that someone you know or love could have Alzheimer 's are, memory loss that disrupts daily life, challenges in planning or solving problems, difficulty completing familiar tasks at home, at work, or at leisure, confusion with time or place, trouble understanding visual image and spatial relationships, new problems with words in speaking or writing, misplacing things and losing the

Some early signs of Parkinson’s disease are depression, emotional changes, major headaches, and trouble sleeping at night, and inexplicable aches and pains (Levy, 30). Parkinson's disease can range from mild to severe. Over one million

In reference to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, “Krabbe Disease is a rare, inherited degenerative disease” (NINDS.nih.gov). It is diagnosed when a presence of globoid cells is found. Those are cells with more than one nucleus. A nucleus acts as the brain of the cell where all the action happens. This disease breaks down the coating of nerve fibers or axons, those are called Myelin Sheath. This disease also breaks down brain cells, which are imperative for everyday functioning and intelligence. Symptoms of this disease include, developmental mental delay, seizures, stiff limbs, Optic atrophy: wasting of a muscle of the eye, resulting in vision difficulties, deafness, irritability, spasms, and ataxia which is the

A 19 year old black male patient (Siyabonga Nkosi, from Tembisa) was admitted to SBAH Internal medicine with history of syncope (2 episodes on different occasions), now occurring for the third time, it is associated with loss of consciousness and

Alzheimer’s is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and gets worse over time. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events or short memory loss. As the disease advances, symptoms can include difficulty with language, disorientation, mood swing and behavior problems. As a person 's condition progressed, they often withdraw from friends and family. Slowly, bodily functions deteriorated and eventually death occurs. “Although the speed of progression can vary, the average life expectancy following diagnosis is three to nine years”.

The symptoms for a TIA are the same as a regular stroke, but last shorter period of time. People that have a TIA experience: trouble with speaking, which may be slurred, and difficulty