Everyone knows about the disorders of schizophrenia, alzhiemer's and depression. Not everyone knows that the three diseases are placed under the same "umbrella"; demensia.
Basic depression isn't considered a demensia status, only the advanced stages of depression that result in delusions, slurred speech, loss of memory and advanced fatigue. These same symptoms are also symptoms of alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease cannot be technically diagnosed without dissecting the brain. The difference is that advanced depression is a hormonal reaction and alzheimer's disease is created by a series of substances called "prions" in a persons brain that blocks neurons from reaching certain areas of the brain. Schizophrenia is also a chemical reaction, but the reaction is caused by the lack of a myelin sheath at the end of a neuro transmitter and the resultant scattering of the brain cells.
So, contemplatively, if someone were to constantly create stimuli that enhances chemical reactions towards chemical reactions that could cause depressive, or other demensia related symptoms, could the stimuli actually create the disease? Is it possible to make a person believe that voices around them being whispered at them constantly by an outside source could actually be their own voices, even if they don't match their own feelings? Or, depriving one of regular sleep so that they experience REM translations during awake states, could this be portrayed as one of the "umbrella" diseases?
I know that if one were subjected to sexual stimuli, outside voices, REM awake states, and negative stimuli constantly it COULD create enough pressure on the brain to induce anxiety, into an almost schiphrenia like state except for the neuronal reactions of schizophrenia. It could also create advance depressive stages where the victim hallucinates and experiences delusions.
How much stimuli could create a permanent depressive state that can't be reversed? How do you reverse the hormonal stages of advanced depression?
Another important thing to contemplate: What goes on the rehab centers that a loved one might be placed in? Is the atmosphere conducive to advancing demensia or is it more conducive to treating its psychological/emotional causes?
Also, if you are ever in a relationship or have a roommate/live in companion, that creates any of those symptoms in you, anxiety, depression, repeated negative thoughts, lack of rest, etc. Its abuse, get help and get out before it escalates and you can't help yourself any longer.
Lotsa love,
-Wildrose
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alzheimer's disease is created by a series of substances called "prions" in a persons brain that blocks neurons from reaching certain areas of the brain.
No, that's Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of mad-cow disease. What IS associated with Alzheimer's disease is plaques and tangles in the brain.
Schizophrenia is also a chemical reaction, but the reaction is caused by the lack of a myelin sheath at the end of a neuro transmitter and the resultant scattering of the brain cells.
No, that's MS. You know, when suddenly one part of the body stops functioning properly? That's the scattering of the signal. Schizophrenia has many causes, and my micro professor even posits that it's due to an extreme endocannabinoid activity in the person, because smoking too much pot can give you schizophrenia-like symptoms.
Also, the word is 'dementia'.
~C
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I apologize, by my University provides its students with the MOST up to date information. Here are the links to research it yourself, suggesting that I'm informed about my topic:
Myelin Related Disfunction in schizophrenia: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12742865
Compared to MS: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17583597
Alzheimer’s research: http://www.neurologyreviews.com/dec99/nr_dec99_Prions.html
Alzheimer’s prion research: http://microbiologybytes.wordpress.com/2006/12/11/alzheimers-disease-and...
We are happy to house an Alzheimer's research center as well a a neurological brain research intitute.
I'll gther more data for you later.
Peace out,
-Wildrose
First of all, copying and pasting some links into a reply doesn't prove to anyone that you are informed about the topic being discussed.
One of your sources was from 2003, and one was as early as 1998. This definitely is not the MOST up to date information in the world of research. Also, lack of myelin sheath would not cause brain cells to scatter, it would cause a lower conduction rate. If brain cells were to scatter, this could cause death. Fortunately, brain cells don't scatter. If this were the case, changing the concentration of any neurotransmitter would not affect the performance of the nerve. Because of this, increasing any chemical signal would not improve or worsen a condition resulting from lack of myelination. None of these papers have established that myelin anomalies are a cause of any disease, they have only established a correlation between myelin disfunction and certain disorders.
Also, perhaps you mean "institute", not intitute. My university houses a national weather center, but that doesn't make me a meteorology expert.
F*** Religion. Read more here:
http://www.progressiveu.org/020528-f-religion
The dates on the papers further enhance my point, at one time it was thought that myelin disease was only a function of MS, if you read the paper from 2003, it shows that the research is more positive about the connection of the disturbance of the sheath in relation to schizophrenia.
In regards to the comment about the scattering of the cells. It is not true that one would die if their brains cells scattered. As long as enough of the cells his the proper source to create regular bodily functions. In a person with a mental disorder, the focus of the research on the action of the neurons is on the particular areas of the brain relating to cognitive functioning. Involuntary reactions are normally found in different sector's of the brain. Yes, of those sectors experienced a scattering of cells, the human would most likely become diseased, or something similar.
However, I did not come up with that theory out of the blue, as a matter of fact it is not even MY theory. I read some neurological reports that show the working of the neurons in the brain via ultra violet radiation, cat scan technologies, etc. The neurons are illuminated as the hot spots. In the normal brain, the reactions are synonymous and patterned, in the schizophrenic brain they are more wide spread and scattered.
I'll look up some links. One should always provide resources for their information, it allows them the advantage of proving that the information didn't just mitigate out of their minds and onto the medium, that there was a source from which that information was derived.
It also safeguards one from plagiarism laws if there is a case in which their ideas match perfectly with another's whom provided the idea at an earlier date.
Lotsa love,
-Wildrose