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World Alzheimer’s Day.

September 22 marks the International Day of Alzheimer’s, a disease that affects millions of people worldwide and 800,000 in Spain, ie one in ten people over 65 have it in our country.
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Although it is one of the cruelest diseases of our century, yet there is no effective treatment against Alzheimer’s.

Yet experts like Dr. Antonio Yusta, USP Hospital neurologist says that can slow its progress “since it has been seen that the risk factors for this disease are pampering for other diseases such as heart attacks or cardiovascular problems,” he secured in an interview with Europa Press.

So I created early recognition as they begin to manifest the first symptoms “have already lost 70 to 80 percent of the neurons.”

Although research is ongoing at the moment there are medications for Azheimer not cure the disease but also helps slow down your progress. Dr. Yusta now the challenge is the existence of drugs called vaccines given intravenously. This dissolves the protein (amyloid) and prevents the development of this disease that affects not only those who suffer but also their relatives.

But in Spain are conducting research that go beyond medications. According to a study conducted with 146 patients in Burgos province, music applied to these Alzheimer’s patients helps slow the progression of the disease.

The research, published in the prestigious American magazine ‘Alzheimer Disease and Associated Disorders’, says that playing music, especially songs-always these patients with impaired mental health, reduces the apathy of his patients, a state that isolates sick and produces the advancement of the disease.

Thus it seems that music is not just for taming wild beasts. Again, it seems that this art form can be very effective in combating health problems or delay

Alzheimer’s is a degenerative brain disease, is progressive, and causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior. In the beginning, patients manifest frustrated by not finding the right words to communicate, the short-term memory loss, difficulty performing daily tasks.
In another more advanced stage may feel complications with the sense of place, personality change, loss of initiative?
The two most important risk factors are:
-The age over 65 years has a risk of 10% contrast, but this percentage increases to 50% in those over 85 years.
-Family history, know your family history helps diagnose earlier; the sooner treatment can start a better quality of life.
It has been found among patients decreased brain levels of acetylcholine, a chemical that sends signals from one neuron to another neurotransmitter that would be fundamental in intellectual activities.
This is due to the action of cholinesterase, an enzyme responsible for breaking down acetylcholine.
So part of treatment is to inhibit this enzyme causes damage.
As a highly encouraging, communicate stage is a preventive vaccine trial, investigated by the neurologist Gurutz Linazasoro, the trials were conducted in Austria, but even if it was effective and without side effects, will not become public for another 6 years.
So far scientists have not agreed on the possible measures to prevent or delay the onset of this disease.
But it is fairly widespread opinion that a Mediterranean diet that includes fruits, vegetables, bread, cereals, olive oil, fish and red wine, plus the addition of vitamins B12, B3, and folic acid may be associated with reduced risk of get it. But they have a significant effect once appeared.
The same is said of intellectual activities such as chess, reading, crossword puzzles, study and language.