Extractions: Ethnicelderscare.net Vision: Dementia is more common among African American and Hispanic elders as compared with Caucasian Americans elders. Hispanic dementia is more common than most people think. Most of the care of ethnic elders with dementia is conducted by family and informal caregivers. But due to a variety of psychosocial and cultural factors, ethnic elders are less likely than Caucasian elders to have access to formal comprehensive diagnostic, treatment and management resources for dementia care. The primary vision of Ethnic Elders Care is to increase senior health alzheimers resource brain disorder and dementia symptom vascular dementia . Most of the care of ethnic elders with dementia is conducted by family and informal caregivers. But due to a variety of psychosocial and cultural factors, ethnic elders are less likely than Caucasian elders to have access to formal comprehensive diagnostic, treatment and management resources for dementia care.
AD/HD Links and Stroke (NINDS) Comprehensive information on disorders of the brain and nervoussystem. spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, education http://guest1.altec.org/ndsp/traumatic_brain_injury/Sugread.html
Resource Library Fetal and Young Child nervous System The Development and Maldevelopment of theBrain Pediatrics. Information Section 7 Mental Health disorders Psychology. http://www.elib.scot.nhs.uk/weblibrary.asp?cat=Books
Prion Disease - Genetics Home Reference The abnormal protein builds up in the brain and destroys nerve cells, resulting Prionassociateddisorders; Prion-Induced disorders; Transmissible Dementias; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=priondisease
Extractions: A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine Home Search Conditions Genes ... Help Prion disease These disorders are very rare. They affect about one person per million worldwide each year. This means that approximately 250 to 300 cases occur annually in the United States. Mutations in the PRNP gene cause prion disease. Although familial forms of prion disease are caused by inherited mutations in the PRNP gene, prion diseases are most often sporadic, which means that they occur in people without any known risk factors or gene mutations. Rarely, prion diseases also can be transmitted by infection. The PRNP gene provides the instructions to make a protein called the prion protein (PrP). Mutations in this gene cause cells to produce an abnormal form of the prion protein, known as PrP Sc . The abnormal protein builds up in the brain and destroys nerve cells, resulting in the signs and symptoms of prion disease.
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Extractions: Funding - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) Skip menus Home About NINDS Disorders ... Find People The nation's leading supporter of biomedical research on disorders of the brain and nervous system. Select Topic Disorder Quick Links Alzheimer's Autism Cerebral Palsy Chronic Pain Epilepsy Headache Multiple Sclerosis Parkinson's Stroke Traumatic Brain Injury NINDS Search (search help) Contact us My privacy NINDS is part of the National Institutes of Health Contact us Neural Environment Neurological disorders may result when extra-neuronal cells are compromised, as in demyelinating and cerebrovascular diseases; when extra-neuronal cells themselves become aggressors, as in inflammatory responses within the nervous system, when viruses, bacteria, or parasites infect the cells of the nervous system, when autoimmune responses damage nerve and muscle; when cells of the blood-brain barrier are dysfunctional, or when glial dysfunction in the developing nervous system results in developmental abnormalities. Glial cells, microvascular endothelia, and cells of hematopoetic origin are integrally involved in the normal development and/or functioning of the nervous system and play a crucial role in disease. Emerging concepts on the interaction among all of these cells hold great promise for increasing our understanding of how the nervous system works in normal and diseased states, and will broaden our perspective on how we think about the nervous system.
Familial Dysautonomia - Genetics Home Reference Critical activities in brain and nerve cells are probably disrupted by Genetic disordercatalog. What other names do people use for familial dysautonomia? http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=familialdysautonomia
Extractions: A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine Home Search Conditions Genes ... Help Familial dysautonomia Familial dysautonomia affects the autonomic nervous system, which controls involuntary actions such as digestion, breathing, tearing, and the regulation of blood pressure and body temperature. This condition also affects the sensory nervous system, which controls activities related to the senses, such as taste and the perception of pain, heat, and cold. In populations of individuals with Central or Eastern European (Ashkenazi) Jewish ancestry, familial dysautonomia occurs in about 1 in 3,700 people. This disorder is rare in the general population. What genes are related to familial dysautonomia?
