Alzheimer’s and the Brain

Vsauce is honored to announce our support for Alzheimer’s Organization’s #TheLongestDay currently as well as throughout June throughout Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month. Browse through http://www.alz.org/Vsauce to join us!

More great links:

http://www.alz.org/facts/

Alzheimer’s illness facts and numbers [PDF]: http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/2016-facts-and-figures.pdf

Basics of Alzheimer’s condition. “What it is and also exactly what you could do” [PDF] http://www.alz.org/national/documents/brochure_basicsofalz_low.pdf

Just what is Dementia? http://www.alz.org/what-is-dementia.asp

Alzheimer’s disease:

http://www.alz.org/research/science/alzheimers_brain_tour.asp
https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/preventing-alzheimers-disease/what-alzheimers-disease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease

compare causes of death: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/patterns

Solar system activity around stellar center: https://twitter.com/skyponderer/status/735788050316288004

mind truths: https://www.brainscape.com/blog/2012/03/facts-gray-matter/

cortex density: http://www.pnas.org/content/97/20/11050.full

a lot more on cortex:

Click to access MultipleCorticalAreas-nb204-unit04-16feb2011.pdf

http://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/cerebral-cortex-folds-paper

APPLICATION:

https://www.bioscience.org/2012/v17/af/4035/fulltext.php?bframe=figures.htm
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/APP#location
http://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/79

VIDEOS: exactly how proteins are created from DNA

Memory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_potentiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal_memory_allocation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory

Why can't I list every book I know, but I can tell you if I own it?
by inaskscience

Video clip of genuine human mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHxyP-nUhUY

The Alzheimer’s Project (HBO): https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/alzheimers-project-hbo-videos

I highly recommend this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2371383/

Down disorder:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/downsyndrome.html
https://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-people-down-syndrome

Alzheimer’s condition risk-factors: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277778973_Summary_of_the_evidence_on_modifiable_risk_factors_for_cognitive_decline_and_dementia_A_population-based_perspective

wiki photos:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#/media/File:Qatar,_power_lines_( 7 ). JPG.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastermind_( board_game) #/ media/File: Mastermind.jpg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book#/media/File:Urval_av_de_bocker_som_har_vunnit_Nordiska_radets_litteraturpris_under_de_50_ar_som_priset_funnits.jpg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#/media/File:VHS_recorder,_camera_and_cassette.jpg.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_tragic_poets_Aeschylus_( 525-456_BC) _ and_Sophocles _( 495-406_BC), _ Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptotek, _ Copenhagen _( 15369478929). jpg.

gullible.