Rat Brain

Cause of Dementia Senil has something to do with the degeneration that occurs gradually. This is due to decline of tissue function in the cerebral cortex (outer layer of the brain) and the interference of other cells are quite serious.

There is another similar disease, namely senil dementia called Alzheimer's. The name of this disease several years ago to be sticking out in the media because the former U.S. president, Ronald Reagan, stricken with the disease. Senil dementia similar to Alzheimer's, but its unique Alzheimer's could also attack a younger age, starting around 40 to 60 years. Specific symptoms, namely progressive memory disturbances, decline of intellectual function, disorientation and apathy. Alzheimer's is caused by atrophy or shrinking of brain tissue, particularly the lobbying front, side and rear. The disease is no known cure was discovered by a German neurologist named Alois Alzheimer (1894-1915).

Hope to get rid of this disease comes from the U.S.. Scientists at Harvard Medical School, has recently succeeded in reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in several animal species live. "This idea could be a surprise," said one researcher from the Univ. Harvard Medical School. According uapaya reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer's and trying to heal is by drilling the skull of live rats to take some part of his brain. Proteins found in mice or rats is believed to block the withdrawal symptoms in patients with Alzheimer's. They have tried it on animals that were conditioned early degeneration of this disease. It turned out that within a period of three to eight days, acute symptoms begin to decline, "This is good hope for sufferers of this fatal disease," said the spokesman at the Lab. Univ. Harvard Medical School.