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The disease or Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative disease that affects the brain, primarily affects the functioning of memory causing the person with lose the notions of space and time.

Reaches old age above 65 years and according to polls the more advanced age, the greater the risk and its rate increases in the population over 85 years, causing brain atrophy and increased risk of throat infections. It is a degenerative disease that primarily affects the body’s neurons and is not contagious or infectious.

According to these same surveys, Alzheimer’s affects more women than men, which can be attributed to the fact that they live longer than them. The most frequent symptom, which manifests itself more sharply, is the constant memory leak that causes one to forget completely the facts, often lose track of where you are totally losing their autonomy of movement, which makes it dangerous to leave alone.

Due to constant memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease is popularly known as dementia and confused with senility. At the first signs different in the elderly, such as mood swings, lack of interest in routine habits such as bathing, taking care of their appearance, memory lapses, it is important that the family seek medical help for proper evaluation so that it maintains a good quality of life even with some limitations. Read the rest of this entry »

Alzheimer’s disease and similar disorders are a disease of the century. Although science is in search of drugs or treatments that achieve postpone his appearance, more and more people who suffer worldwide.

It is much controversy about what the specific causes that creates the disease, but nothing is yet written. The truth is that there are habits and exercises that could have an impact on prevention.

Healthy Habits

• Avoid smoking: it may cause small strokes that can sometimes damage the brain and cause dementia.
• Leading a healthy and balanced diet, free of fat and high in omega 3 and 6, vitamin E, vitamin C, vitamin B12 and folic acid, which benefit the brain.
• Exercising regularly, at least three times a week.
• Being in constant mental activity (reading, studying, working, thinking …)

The researchers based their study on healthy brain aging because they believe that knowledge in this field can be useful for the development of future tools for diagnosis of dementia, a disorder that involves progressive loss of cognitive functions, because to damage or brain disorders beyond those attributable to normal aging. On the other hand, one of the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease is the appearance of personality changes in people who have it. Some research has found, in fact, in the early stages of this disease, people tend to become more neurotic and less scrupulous.

According to the researchers, is therefore crucial to know the relationship between personality and state of the brain during aging in healthy people, to establish what happens in the brains of people with certain diseases and also to generate early diagnosis.