I ran into a childhood acquaintance in Guwahati, Assam, India, after a lengthy absence. I was happy to learn that he works for an NGO that supports older people who are afflicted with various illnesses. He said that he was now dealing with an Alzheimer sufferer after some polite small talk. She has Alzheimer’s and two kids. He explained how challenging it is to care for an Alzheimer‘s patient since she frequently forgets things and becomes agitated.
As I was preoccupied with my regular activities, I overlooked my friend and the female patient he was seeing.
That friend abruptly called me and told me that the woman with Alzheimer’s had killed herself.
The woman hanged herself in her bedroom.
May God grant serenity to her soul.
That’s the case of just one Alzheimer’s patient !
The number of Alzheimer’s-related deaths in India reached a 30-year high. Alzheimer’s and other dementias took the lives of 129,000 people in our nation in 2019, according to a 2021 Lancet study on the prevalence of neurological illnesses in the states of India.
Don’t you find it shocking that more than 4 million people in India suffer from dementia?
Since dementia affects at least 44 million individuals worldwide, the condition has become a global health emergency.
Don’t you still believe that it need attention?
The most prevalent type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. Memory and cognitive abilities are lost as a result of this degenerative brain disorder.
It eliminates the brain cells that are responsible for bodily functions loss, unpredictable behavior, memory loss, and memory alterations. This illness typically progresses slowly at first. It’s one of the most typical early signs of Alzheimer‘s to have trouble recalling recent events. A person with Alzheimer’s disease may lose track of their long-time friends’ names, addresses, even the names of certain roads, and other details.
For the person with the condition, as well as their family and friends, receiving an Alzheimer’s diagnosis changes their entire world.
Alzheimer’s cannot be detected easily. A thorough medical examination is necessary for diagnosis. To ascertain the etiology of symptoms, blood testing, mental status examinations, and brain imaging procedures may be employed.
The medical background of your family
A neurologic examination
Cognitive tests to assess thinking and memory
Tests on blood (to rule out other possible causes of symptoms)
Brain x-rays
While a person’s presence of dementia is typically detectable by doctors, identifying the specific type of dementia may be more challenging. Misdiagnosis is more frequent in Alzheimer’s with younger onset.
While there are now no treatments to halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, there are drugs to treat the symptoms of dementia. The effects of dementia on the brain have become considerably better understood over the last three decades because of tremendous research. Researchers are currently working to find a cure, more efficient treatments, and methods to prevent Alzheimer’s and enhance brain health.
Although there are presently no treatments to delay or reverse the brain damage brought on by Alzheimer’s disease, some people may find some temporary relief from the symptoms of dementia with a number of drugs. These drugs function by raising brain neurotransmitter levels.
Numerous therapy and pharmaceutical treatments are currently being tested with the goal of halting the Alzheimer’s-related brain cell loss.
In addition, both people with dementia and their carers’ and families’ quality of life can be improved by putting in place support structures and using non-pharmacologic behavioral therapies.
Every year on September 21st, World Alzheimer’s Day is marked to increase public awareness of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Due to the severity of this disease, this day is observed throughout the entire month in various nations in order to raise awareness.
“Know Dementia, Know Alzheimer’s” is the topic for World Alzheimer’s Day 2022, carrying over from the 2021 campaign, which focused on diagnosis, dementia warning signs, COVID-19’s ongoing effects on the global dementia community, and more.
Based on the most recent scientific results, one can engage in Neurobic exercise, a special program for strengthening the brain.
The physical senses that are included in the brain exercise program include vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and emotional senses, and the daily routine is regularly changed.
Neorobic training increases cerebral activity to continuously strengthen and develop brain cells.
The medial temporal lobe’s hippocampus, which serves as a temporary repository for new information before eventually transferring to the cortex for permanent storage, is directly involved in neurobic exercise.
As you may already know, the human brain’s cerebral cortex is its most developed region. It is made up of many distinct sections, each with a specific function for retrieving, encoding, and storing data from all senses. In addition, the connections in the cerebral cortex’s various regions are made up of hundreds of neuronal pathways that, thanks to the intricate system and the virtually endless combinations of the brain’s extensive pathways, may retain memories.
Neurotrophins are natural brain nutrients that can enhance the number and complexity of dendrites to keep you younger, stronger, and improve memory recall. They are produced when nerve cells are stimulated through neurobic exercise
The following list of neurobic exercise programs can stimulate certain brain processes and nerve connections:
1) Closing one’s eyes and using body language and sense of vision to recognize objects. These will activate the diencephalon (thalamus and hypothalamus), which is crucial for transmitting sensory information to the cerebral cortex, as well as the occipital lobe, which interprets visual information. All sensory information, with the exception of olfactory information, will synchronize critical sensory information in the thalamus and filter out irrelevant sensory information.
2) The limbic system and temporal lobe, which are involved in emotion, motivation, and emotional association with memory, are made more accessible by using the sense of hearing when listening to music. By fusing emotional emotions with long-term memories of physical sensations, the limbic system contributes to memory formation.
3) Utilizing their sense of smell by inhaling familiar to the elderly essential oils, aromas, and herbs like lemon grass, garlic, red onions, limes, mangos, roses, and jasmines. It aids in stimulating the temporal lobe, which is connected to the perceptions of sound and scent. Semantic processing in voice and visual is crucial for the development of long-term memory. The limbic system, which contains the hippocampus, amygdala, thalamus, and hypothalamus and is located deep inside the temporal lobe, is particularly important for the processing of memories. Since it does not store information, the hippocampus serves as a transient transition area for long-term memories.
4) Using the sense of taste by tasting lime, sugar, salt, coffee, tea, and cookie in addition to dessert . It aids in stimulating the parietal lobe, which is important for processing time, place, and memory-related information as well as integrating sensory data from other senses.
5) distinguishing objects by touch, such as coins, spoons, glasses, pencils, rulers, combs, and tooth brushes, by using the sense of touch to massage, mold clay, or otherwise use it. These are the items that elderly persons have been consistently using. The frontal and parietal lobes are stimulated. The frontal lobe, particularly the region known as the prefrontal cortex, is engaged in conscious thought and higher mental tasks including decision-making. Additionally, it is crucial for processing and holding onto short-term memories.
6) Using the emotional sense in conjunction with the other four senses, such as when playing cards, receiving massages, and smelling perfume, for example. Diencephalon, especially the hypothalamus, which controls emotion and encodes memory by laying down a memory attention, will be motivated by emotional sense. In addition, it stimulates the limbic system, which includes the amygdala and the hippocampus and aids in the development of memories by fusing emotional emotions with previously acquired memories of physical sensations. The amygdala plays a function in modulating the consolidation of emotional memories and is in charge of deciding what memories are preserved and where in the brain they are stored. The hippocampus is involved in the creation, organization, and storage of memories.
It helps people create new memories and link emotions to other senses, like smell and sound.
The Neurobic Exercise Program participants were given a program to use two or more senses in combination throughout the day throughout the session. The frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital lobe, diencephalon, and limbic systems of the brain were aroused as a result of the combination of two or more senses.
As a result, the Neurobic exercise program activated the participants’ short-term and long-term memory by involving different combinations of their physical senses.
Therefore, Neorobic exercise will improve the therapy of Alzheimer’s patients if it is consistently practiced.
As a stimulus is taken in by a sense, it is converted into memory in the cerebral cortex.
If the information is repeated, the limbic system in the hippocampus will receive the message and store it as a working or short-term memory. A piece of information will be momentarily stored in short-term memory, which will then transfer to long-term memory later. Repetition of the knowledge can aid in its persistent storage in long-term memory
Conclusion:
Even if there haven’t been enough research done to back up the precise methods of neurobic exercise, that doesn’t mean they are worthless Neurobic exercise, on the other hand, is a type of mental exercise that can lower the risk of dementia .Crossword puzzles, chess, board games, playing musical instruments, games, reading, and dancing are all examples of mental exercises.
Similar to a study on leisure activities and the risk of dementia in the elderly, these activities can slow the rate of memory loss.
The argument is that aerobic exercise will assist a loved one in managing dementia and Alzheimer’s.
At the very least, by doing this, we can raise enough awareness to prevent an Alzheimer’s patient from committing suicide.
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