Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a form of dementia mostly associated with aged individuals. It is a disorder arising within the brain that paralyzes an individual activity. It affects the parts of the brain that controls the thinking process, the memory capacity and even the fluentness in language.
The theories connected to Alzheimer's disease (AD) can be divided into hypothesis and the original theory application depending on discovery of cure and treatment of this disease. One of the most common theories in AD is the Nitric Oxide theory. This theory is medical related and therefore uses medical terms to explain its hypothesis (a hypothesis is an unproven facts, also known as theory). This is a hypothesis related theory to the famous molecular etiology of AD and therefore the medical terms used may be confusing to the reader but it is considered as one of the best theories of AD. The roles of Nitric Oxide are closely viewed in this case. The main roles of Nitric Oxide in this context are to enhance neurotransmission of impulses to the other parts of the body and neuron-modulation process. In addition to this, the Nitric Oxide further enhances synaptic plasticity and neu-roinflammation processes of the brain (Lu, Linda & Juergen, 80). This theory hypothesis further explains that application of enzyme “tau phosphates” could help reduce or treat AD. The theory claims that when the enzyme is applied to the affected part of the brain, the causative agent of the disease changes its potential target to this enzyme hence freeing the brain from further destruction. However, this theory has never been applied to verify the claims behind this unfolded treatment of AD.
In addition, the metal theory of Alzheimer’s disease is another widely known theory that has been given a lot of concentration when analyzing AD in the modern days. The pooling of zinc metal trace in amyloid part of the brain largely contributes to neurodegeneration process. In presence of transition metals, the major proteins have significant in physiological processes in relation to AD pathology. Therefore, in presence of high concentration of metal flux, the rise of tau and amyloid pathology follows which implies that the brain capacity to store significant details is lowered to great extent. (Lu, Linda & Juergen, 84)
The recent observations and studies from psychologists have revealed that the symptoms associated with AD can be grouped into two classes according to the parts and the effects it causes to the patient. The primary category is the cognitive class that mainly deals with the memory associated problems, reasoning and understanding of concepts enforced into our brain. In other hand, agitation and hallucinating behaviors are categorized as behavioral and psychological. Psychologist’s advice that people who suffers from AD should be handled with great care to avoid damage of personal relationship with them. This is because psychological and behavioral symptoms are so severe and distressing.
The fact behind AD is that it causes the patient to lose his thinking capability and the memory is lost. Providing a live example, a student suffering from AD may have access to all library materials and read her level best but during the examination period, she fails to write even a single word on the answer sheet. Moreover, a student suffering from AD completely loses her sense of reasoning and concentration on the lectures in progress. In the end of the day, this is clear evidence that AD completely affects the functioning of the brain and the part of the memory used to store and interprets information may be damaged. This calls for immediate treatment of the same before it becomes severe to be treated.
In a working institution where an individual is entrusted with all company’s confidential information, the company may undergo a great loss within a blink. For instance if the person with important information about that company get affected by AD, it obvious imply loss of memory and hence confidential information retained within the individual.
In conclusion, social institution could be improved to a large extent if the knowledge of AD is taken into considerations. Individuals who suffer from AD should be considered as people with changing pattern of behaviors and therefore should not lead a care giver in a referral center to frustration and hatred or any kind of discrimination to the patient. The knowledge of AD should provide them with adequate reason to understand the patient’s changing reactions towards them. In this reasoning, any social institution will obviously develop due to the understanding of the people surrounding the affected people hence enhanced relationship among them.
Work cited
Lu, Linda C, and Juergen Bludau. Alzheimer's Disease. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2011. Print.
