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Alzheimer's Return to Functionality offers new perspectives to understand this type of dementia and in the same time, gives us hope that this illness will be cured soon and the patients will be able to return to their previous functionality. This book is written in the spirit of the ancient Zalmoxian medics of Getae, Thrace, whose paradigm of approaching the patient may offer us the platform of healing Alzheimer's and many other diseases as well--including cancer. The author takes us further in a wonderful journey throughout history regarding the approaching of sufferers of mental illnesses in different cultures and a very interesting look upon the longevity of individuals in ancient times in an original manner. Among other interesting things, as our readers may well find in this book, is the incursion that author makes on the aetiology of Alzheimer's disease and what is happening at the cell level in the body.

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Publié par	Austin Macauley Publishers
Date de parution	04 mai 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781528979863
Langue	English

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Alzheimer’s Return to Functionality
Adrian Spârlac
Austin Macauley Publishers
2020-05-04
Alzheimer’s Return to Functionality About The Author Dedication Copyright Information © Acknowledgement Introduction Chapter I. Dementia 1.1 Dementia Throughout European History 1.2 A Brief Look at the Typology of Dementia Vascular dementia Lewy body dementia Frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease) Chapter II. Alzheimer’s Dementia 2.1 Characteristics and Aetiology of Alzheimer’s Disease The paradigm of approaching the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease: 2.2 Brain Shrinking Does Not Necessarily Cause Dementia. 2.3 A Brief Incursion on Symptomatology of Alzheimer’s Disease Healthy person: Person ill with Alzheimer’s disease: Psychopathological symptoms Physiological symptoms Chapter III. Hippocampus and Amygdala, the Informational Traffic Node 3.1 Hippocampus Reptilian brain Neocortex Limbic system 3.2 Amygdala Chapter IV. Conclusions Bibliography Other Publications Web Resources
About The Author
Adrian Spârlac is the author of Alzheimer’s Return to Functionality and Essay on the Classification of Human Traditional Senses . He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. What made him to write this piece of work is the highly intriguing fact that memory has a sequential or episodical return to a patient suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. That led him to draw the conclusion that in Alzheimer’s disease, memory is intact but for certain reasons it is not accessed. The author of this book will reveal some of those reasons among other highly engaging and very interesting things that our readers will come across in this new piece of work.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to all the people who are helping others driven by their inner force based upon their ethical and moral values.
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Adrian Spârlac (2020)
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Acknowledgement
The author wishes to express his gratitude and special thanks to Daniela from Be Social Events Inc., Toronto, Canada and Austin Macauley Publishers from United Kingdom of Great Britain who made the publishing of this book possible.

“Strengthen your body by labour, and your mind through study.”
– Socrates
Introduction
We chose to begin the introduction of this work with the wisdom quote from the philosophy of the great Greek philosopher Socrates by which it tells us very clearly what we have to do in order to keep ourselves in good shape, both physically and mentally, for as long as possible.
This idea was later taken up by the Romans who in their turn said, “Mens sana in corpore sano.” Which means in Latin ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’. It is not for nothing that the Romans have put the mind before the body which makes us believe that they have perceived the mental power as being above the physical. Today’s science can only strengthen the knowledge of the Romans about this phenomenon because on particular occasions, it has been demonstrated that the mind of man plays a very important role in his own healing even from particularly grave diseases, but at the same time, it can kill him as well.
That being said, it does not mean that we have to make a discrepancy between mind and body, but they must always be taken together. Expressing one through the other in optimal parameters reflects the harmony of individual functionality.
We hope that this work will have what it takes to open up new perspectives for assessment and support in the best interest of patients, and the enrichment of the knowledge in this field across the world as well.
During this work, we will present what dementia is in general; we will talk about the typology and the differences between them, and an original approach on the casuistry which is very important indeed. Further in this book, we will also describe through original ideas how memory can be affected by certain forms of dementia.
This work also proposes a theoretical approach from our perspective on the causes and mechanisms that produce this disease, about which is not known enough at the moment to be able actually to heal patients, but slowing down the process of its degeneration only.
This book has two main extremely bold objectives:
Demonstration by logical, practical and case studies that memory in Alzheimer’s disease is always ready to be functional again being accessed by the mechanisms involved, the phenomenon being episodic with the specification that in time, the distance between the episodes is increasing. Here, memory is not the problem that periodically recurs to the patient but the progressive failure of its access mechanisms and ability to form new memories.
There are clear evidences that brain shrinkage does not necessarily cause dementia.
The reason we are writing this book is because of a very intriguing fact about Alzheimer’s disease, mainly, the sequential return of memory in the sufferers from this illness which we should call them mental awakenings. Those awakenings give us the hope to believe that there is a way for the patients of returning to their functionality if we help, somehow, directly or indirectly the mechanisms of memory recollection.

“First, do no harm.”
– Hippocrates
“Second, do some good.”
– Anne M Lipton
Chapter I. Dementia

1.1 Dementia Throughout European History
Dementia was still mentioned in antiquity by the great thinkers of those times, and the first descriptions on the European continent were made by Hippocrates (460–370 BC), which were merely statements made on the basis of observations on symptomatology. The Father of Medicine considered that mental imbalance even death was due to the imbalance of humours. He had distinguished four humours responsible for the personality of man, such as blood, lymph, yellow gall and black gall. He was also the first who wrote about the presence of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain calling it ‘water that surrounds the brain’. We will be talking about this very important thing later in our work.
Plato (427–347 BC on his true name Aristocles because Plato has his nickname due to his broad chest, so in English would sound like Chesty) went further on Hippocrates’ ideas, stating that when acid or bitter humour crosses the body and intervenes in the movements of the soul mingling with it, it causes inconveniences that vary in intensity and resemble prostration or oblivion.
On his turn, Aristotle (381–322 BC), being a student of Plato and later Alexander the Great’s (356–323 BC) teacher, indicates that memory loss is due exclusively to physical affections, as the ancient Egyptians said that all diseases regardless of manifestation had a physical cause.
Thus, he sets forth two ideas that stand up even today, namely: Mental decline is directly proportional to aging and old age itself is a kind of illness. Because we have mentioned earlier such a great personality as Alexander, we could not resist the temptation to share with our readers another possibility regarding the reason why the greatest commander of all time went with is quest beyond Persia. Most people say that was driven by his personal ambition, but it could be something else based on the fact that he always wanted to see things for himself. As we said earlier, Aristotle was his teacher, and he was taught among many other things that earth was a disc-shaped planet, and after India, it should be the end of the planet. That was the paradigm at the time about the shape of our planet in ancient Greece that lasted in Europe until the renaissance.
Alexander, at the beginning of his campaign against mighty Persia which it was the military super power at that moment, was driven by ambition, indeed, but after that, was driven by curiosity, and was eager to know the truth. He wanted to see for himself the end of the earth which lied beyond India, and verify Aristotle’s teachings if were right about the shape of our planet. That was the reason that lied, we believe, behind his quest beyond Persia and perhaps not the ambition of conquering the world as it is widely considered but the thirst for knowledge.
Eventually, Alexander had to stop advancing in his quest at the request of his generals being tired of fighting for so many years, reminding him, at last, of a promise he made to them at the beginning of campaign that he will not lead them as a tyrant but as a friend, so he had to listen to them, and keep his promise despite the fact that he was not far away from knowing the truth that’s why he did not want to give up his quest so easily.
Returning to our main subject, after a brief incursion on Alexander the Great’s campaign, through the ideas