THE BRAIN

miércoles, 9 de abril de 2014

How Prevent the Brain Diseases

How Prevent the Brain Diseases

When people think about staying fit, they generally think from the neck down. But the health of your brain plays a critical role in almost everything you do: feeling, remembering, working, playing and even sleeping.

The good news is that emerging evidence suggests there are steps you can take to help keep your brain healthier as your age. These steps might also reduce your risk of Alzheimer´s disease or other dementias.

Like others parts of your body, your brain may lose some agility as you get older. It can deteriorate even more if you don´t take care of it. Science is unlocking many mysteries of the brain, but we don´t have all the answers yet. You can do everything "right" and still not prevent alzheimer´s disease. What´s offered here is the best and most up-to-date information available about brain health so you can make your own decitions about your overall health

Stay physically active

Physical exercise is essential for maintaining good blood flow to the brain as well as to encourage new brain cells.

Adopt a brain-healthier diet

Research suggest that high cholesterol may contribute t stroke and brain cell damage.

Remain socially active

Social activity not only makes physical and mental activity more enjoyable, it can reduce stress levels, which helps maintain healthy connections among brain cells.

Stay mentally active
Mentally stimulating activities strengthen brain cells and the connections between them, and may even create new nerve cells.

How to exercise your Brain

How to exercise your brain

1 - Use the wristwatch on the arm opposite that used forever. 2 - Walk back and forth from home. Three - Dress in eyes closed. 4 - Encourage the palate trying different foods. 5 - Lea or see photos backwards , concentrating on details in which had never repaired . 6 - Set the clock before a mirror to see the time backwards. 7 - Change the computer mouse to the other side of the table. 8 - Type or brush your teeth with your left hand , or right , if left-handedness . 9 - drive to work , take a different route than usual . 10 - Insert small changes in your habits , transforming them into challenges for your brain. 11 - browse through some magazines and find a picture that catches your attention. Then think of 25 adjectives that you think describe the image or photographed subject. 12 - When you go to a restaurant , I try to identify the ingredients of the dish chosen, and focus on the more subtle flavors. 13 - When you enter a crowded room , try to figure out how many are on the right side and how many on the left . Look at the details of decoration and list them with closed eyes . 14 - Select a phrase from a book and try to form a different phrase forming the same words. 15 - Try to play a game or activity that has ever practiced . 16 - Buy a puzzle and try to fit the right pieces as fast as they can by timing the time. Repeat the exercise to see their progress in speed. 17 - Try to memorize a grocery list . 18 - Consult the dictionary and learn a new word a day, and try to use them in their daily conversations. 19 - Listen to the news on radio and television as soon as you wake up, and then make a list of the most important . 20 - When reading a word think in another five that begin with the same letter.

By MAFER

The Sikness of the Human Brain

The sikness of the Human Brain

Epilepsy is a group of long-term neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures. These seizures are episodes that can vary from brief and nearly undetectable to long periods of vigorous shaking. In epilepsy, seizures tend to recur, and have no immediate underlying cause while seizures that occur due to a specific cause are not deemed to represent epilepsy.

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of themidbrain; the cause of this cell death is unknown. Early in the course of the disease, the most obvious symptoms are movement-related; these include shaking, rigidity,slowness of movement and difficulty with walking and gait. Later, thinking and behavioral problems may arise, with dementia commonly occurring in the advanced stages of the disease, whereas depression is the most common psychiatric symptom. Other symptoms include sensory, sleep and emotional problems. Parkinson's disease is more common in older people, with most cases occurring after the age of 50.

Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive neuronal loss predominantly involving the frontal and/or temporal lobes. The disorder was first described by Arnold Pick in 1892 and was originally called Pick's disease. Second only to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in prevalence, FTD accounts for 20% of young onset dementia cases.^[1] Symptoms typically manifest in late adulthood, more commonly between 55 and 65 years, approximately equally affecting men and women.^[1] Common symptoms include significant changes in social and personal behavior, apathy, blunting of emotions, and deficits in both expressive and receptive language. Currently, there is no cure for FTD, but there are treatments that help alleviate symptoms

.Alzheimer's disease (AD), also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease, is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, whichworsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. It was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him.^[1] Most often, AD is diagnosed in people over 65 years of age,^[2] although the less-prevalent early-onset Alzheimer's can occur much earlier. In 2006, there were26.6 million people worldwide with AD. Alzheimer's is predicted to affect 1 in 85 people globally by 2050.^[3]