My Research paper on the Dementia-organ
1.) What is Organ biology? In other words, what is the organ (ex. -molecules, cells, body etc.) and how is it studied?
Anatomy is the study of the structure of living organisms which includes the organs. The organ is a group of tissues that have been adapted to perform a specific task. There are 78 organs in the human body that all have a different role to make our body function. Organs are the bases of human life and why we exist today. One method to study organs is through a Tissue-Organ bath which is an in vitro dose response experiment to study the physiology and pharmacology of tissue preparations. A Tissue-Organ bath will keep an organ alive for several hours and works by adding a drug to the bath that makes the organ contract and relax and is measured through an isotonic transducer.
2.) What goes wrong with or goes on with the organ(ex. molecules, cells, etc.) in the disease Neurological Disorder you are studying?
Dementia happens when two or more primary brain functions are significantly impaired but without loss of consciousness. The types of brain functions that are lost are memory, language skills, perception, or cognitive skills include reasoning and judgment. There are many types of dementia. There is Cortical Dementia, Subcortical Dementia, Progressive Dementia, Primary Dementia, and Secondary Dementia. Cortical Dementia causes problems with memory, language, thinking, and social behavior due to damage in the brain's cortex. Subcortical Dementia causes change in emotions and movement, and also problems with memory loss. Progressive Dementia gets worse over time and interferes with more and more cognitive abilities. Primary Dementia is when a disease such as alzheimer's doesn't get caused by any other disease. Secondary Dementia occurs from a physical disease or injury. Alzheimer’s disease is caused when the tau is changed in a way that it twist into pairs of helical filaments that eventually tangle up which causes the micro tubing to disintegrate and may impair the communication between nerve cells causing them to die.
3.) What research is going on to understand the disease in terms of the brain (ex. -molecules, cells, body etc.)?
Brain scans of people with the condition shows what the brain looks like due to dementia.
4.) What current research is going on for therapies and cures for the disease Neurological Disorder? How do they connect with the organ(ex. -molecules, cells, body etc.)
Doing activities that causes you to critically think often will everly lower your chance of getting dementia. People with diabetes who have a tight control over their glucose levels than people who have a poor control over their glucose levels will have less of a chance of getting dementia. lowering cholesterol levels, lowering blood pressure, education, controlling inflammation, lowering homocysteine ( which are amino acids), and long term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
5.) Who can you contact that is conducting this research to interview? (This does not have to be paragraph form- list labs, names, emails, phone numbers) http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia/san-diego-ca_city.htm
Sites:
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Organ
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/dementia.htm
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp
http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia/article.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia/san-diego-ca_city.htm
http://www.organsofthebody.com/
http://biology.about.com/od/humananatomybiology/a/anatomy.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia_pictures_slideshow/article.htm
1.) What is Organ biology? In other words, what is the organ (ex. -molecules, cells, body etc.) and how is it studied?
Anatomy is the study of the structure of living organisms which includes the organs. The organ is a group of tissues that have been adapted to perform a specific task. There are 78 organs in the human body that all have a different role to make our body function. Organs are the bases of human life and why we exist today. One method to study organs is through a Tissue-Organ bath which is an in vitro dose response experiment to study the physiology and pharmacology of tissue preparations. A Tissue-Organ bath will keep an organ alive for several hours and works by adding a drug to the bath that makes the organ contract and relax and is measured through an isotonic transducer.
2.) What goes wrong with or goes on with the organ(ex. molecules, cells, etc.) in the disease Neurological Disorder you are studying?
Dementia happens when two or more primary brain functions are significantly impaired but without loss of consciousness. The types of brain functions that are lost are memory, language skills, perception, or cognitive skills include reasoning and judgment. There are many types of dementia. There is Cortical Dementia, Subcortical Dementia, Progressive Dementia, Primary Dementia, and Secondary Dementia. Cortical Dementia causes problems with memory, language, thinking, and social behavior due to damage in the brain's cortex. Subcortical Dementia causes change in emotions and movement, and also problems with memory loss. Progressive Dementia gets worse over time and interferes with more and more cognitive abilities. Primary Dementia is when a disease such as alzheimer's doesn't get caused by any other disease. Secondary Dementia occurs from a physical disease or injury. Alzheimer’s disease is caused when the tau is changed in a way that it twist into pairs of helical filaments that eventually tangle up which causes the micro tubing to disintegrate and may impair the communication between nerve cells causing them to die.
3.) What research is going on to understand the disease in terms of the brain (ex. -molecules, cells, body etc.)?
Brain scans of people with the condition shows what the brain looks like due to dementia.
4.) What current research is going on for therapies and cures for the disease Neurological Disorder? How do they connect with the organ(ex. -molecules, cells, body etc.)
Doing activities that causes you to critically think often will everly lower your chance of getting dementia. People with diabetes who have a tight control over their glucose levels than people who have a poor control over their glucose levels will have less of a chance of getting dementia. lowering cholesterol levels, lowering blood pressure, education, controlling inflammation, lowering homocysteine ( which are amino acids), and long term use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
5.) Who can you contact that is conducting this research to interview? (This does not have to be paragraph form- list labs, names, emails, phone numbers) http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia/san-diego-ca_city.htm
Sites:
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Organ
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/dementia.htm
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp
http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia/article.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia/san-diego-ca_city.htm
http://www.organsofthebody.com/
http://biology.about.com/od/humananatomybiology/a/anatomy.htm
http://www.medicinenet.com/dementia_pictures_slideshow/article.htm