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World Alzheimer's Day - 2007

by Savitha C Muppala on  Sep 20, 2007
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Alzheimer's Disease

The enduring disorder in memory retention is known as Alzheimer's disease. Generally, the disease affects the brain tissues after one reaches forty years. Once affected, Alzheimer's gradually destroys the ability to reason, remember, imagine and learn. It is marked by abnormal clumps (plaques) and irregular knots (neurofibrillary tangles) of brain cells. For reasons not well understood, these plaques and tangles take over healthy brain tissues, devastating the areas of the brain associated with intellectual function.
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Know Your Nervous System

The Nervous system is a complex system through which our body is able to communicate internal as well as external information to its epicenter, the brain. The Nevous system can be broken down into two basic parts, the first being the Central Nervous System, known as CNS, and the second part being the Peripheral Nervous System. The CNS consists of the brain and spinal cord. The Peripheral nervous system consists of all the nerves of the body, which lie outside the brain and spinal cord.
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