Childhood dementia
A rare neurodegenerative disease that affects people under 18
What is childhood dementia?
This stage is where some individuals may begin to forget simple things like names or misplacing items.
What is Stage 2/Mild Cognitive Impairment.
the main animal used to experiment on dementia cures/ treatments
what are mice?
Which part of the brain lies just below the floor of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle?
THE HIPPOCAMPUS!
The lobes responsible for motor and memory
What are the frontal and temporal lobes?
In the middle (moderate) stage of dementia, this part of the brain is impacted which leads to the individual to feel more lost.
What is the hippocampus
Research studies involving human participants to discover new treatments for dementia
What are clinical trials?
This part of a neuron transmits electrical impulses away from the soma, and the tiny gap it communicates across is vital for synaptic transmission.
What are axons and synaptic clefts?
Analyzing DNA to identify changes in genetic sequences
What is genetic testing?
Language and ability to find words from this brain lobe is heavily affected during the mid to late stage of dementia
what is the temporal lobe
The simple, everyday tool for treatment/to slow the proccess of dementia
what is medication?
The multilayered grey matter structure, spefically 6 layers, which if damaged can result in aphasia.
What is the cerebral cortex?
RNA is the abreviation of this molecule
Ribonucleic acid
Problems with awareness and movement begin when this part of the brain that is like a messages relay station between brain areas begin to break down.
what is the thalamus
These mental activities include thinking, memory, learning, and problem solving - all of which can be affected in various forms of dementia
What are cognitive processes
They are filled by the liquid created by the choroid plexuses.
What are ventricles?