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It was 4 years ago when my friend father-in-law was diagnosed with vascular or multi-infarct dementia, that’s all my friend (Jimmy) was told nothing about how it progresses, what to do to make his father-in-law life and theirs  easier and certainly nothing about his father-in-law how he now sees the world. The more my friend learn about dementia symptoms and treatment the more he have also realized that its prevalence seems to be growing. According to doctors, the word dementia includes a number of cognitive illnesses, including Alzheimer’s Disease, Pick’s Disease and Frontal Lobe Dementia.

He decided to devote an article to dementia written on his blog to help people dealing with dementia. He posted all the information he gathered, from understanding dementia, real-life patient’s story, dementia treatment and pictures of people suffering from the disease. He enjoys what he was doing and I know with his blog he can help a lot of people dealing with dementia.

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Lou Gehrig’s disease damages motor  neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons are nerve cells that control muscle movement. Upper motor neurons send messages from the brain to the spinal cord to the muscles. Motor neurons are an important part of the body’s neuromuscular system. The neuromuscular system enables our bodies to move and is made up of the brain, many nerves and muscles. Things that we do every day-like breathing, walking running, lifting stuff and even reaching for a glass of water-are all controlled by the neuromuscular system.

Here’s how the neuromuscular works: If you want to make a fist, your brain first sends signals through upper motor neurons to the area in your spinal cord that controls your hand muscles. Then lower motor neurons in your spinal cord signal the muscles in your hand to move and make a fist.

Over time, Lou Gehrig’s disease causes these motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord to shrink and dissappear, so that muscles no longer recieve signals to move. as a result, the muscles become smaller and weaker. gradually the body becomes paralyzed, which means that the muscles no longer work. However, someone with ALS, even at an advanced stage, can still see, hear, smell, and feel touch. The nerves that carry feelings of hot, cold, pain, pressure, or even being tickled, are not affected by Lou Gehrig’s disease. the parts of the brain that allows us to think, remeber, and learn are also not affected by the disease.

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