• Vsauce - Alzheimer's and the Brain
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[hd]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWcdBOYy_bU[/hd]
Didn't expect a new video so soon. Hopefully he keeps uploading more regularly.
Alzheimer's is probably my biggest fear. It is terrifying to imagine that one day I could just.. forget everything I've done.
"no stiffer than a good booger"
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;50636257]Alzheimer's is probably my biggest fear. It is terrifying to imagine that one day I could just.. forget everything I've done.[/QUOTE] Alzheimer's and dementia in general are really sad diseases. Just this afternoon I was taking care of a patient, an old woman, who had been confused all day long and had [I]just[/I] became lucid for the first time all day. Didn't know where she was, where she lived, where her daughters were, etc.. and as I was explaining everything to her and basically debriefing her on her life, she says "when I was young, I'd see these types of people who forget things and get confused.. But I never thought that'd be me" and started to cry. That was one of the saddest things I've heard somebody say in my life. It was like a scene from a movie. Nobody thinks they'll forget, until they do.
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i hate this i live with my grandma and she has alzheimers, she's slowly fading away :(
That image of the woman's signature getting worse and worse over time was just miserably depressing. I think Alzheimers might be the best argument for right-to-die legislation.
It's distressing to me to think about the corporeality and fragility of my own brain.
[QUOTE=nox;50637834]That image of the woman's signature getting worse and worse over time was just miserably depressing. I think Alzheimers might be the best argument for right-to-die legislation.[/QUOTE] Alzheimer's is also the most morally questionable aspect of right to die. After all, how can you be sure that someone's desire to end their life is a conscious decision, rather than something said in one of many fits of rage or sadness? When someone is terminally ill while mentally healthy, a decision to die is conscious. The patient can communicate the pains they have, the lack of future they see in their life and how they sincerely think they could be spared a painful death through euthanasia. That's a terrible part of Alzheimer's, even in countries where euthanasia is allowed (such as my own country). If you have Alzheimer's and speak your desire for euthanasia, people wouldn't know whether you mean it. In the Netherlands, [url=http://www.alzheimer-nederland.nl/informatie/wat-moet-ik-regelen/beslissingen-rond-levenseinde.aspx]Alzheimer institutes[/url] (Dutch source) recommend you have your will written down [I]before[/I] you're diagnosed with Alzheimer's, because after the diagnosis, you're basically fucked.
Hehe, A p-p. "snips A p-p a bit higher up."
[QUOTE=FPtje;50637974]. . . have your will written down [I]before[/I] you're diagnosed with Alzheimer's, because after the diagnosis, you're basically fucked.[/QUOTE] That actually really makes me want to figure out the best way to do this, just in case. As scary as losing my mind is, it is scarier thinking about the people that would be stuck dealing with me.
I've seen those images before. Really weird to think that the brain can just crumple up like a walnut
[QUOTE=Katska;50637963]It's distressing to me to think about the corporeality and fragility of my own brain.[/QUOTE] Its distressing to your brain to think about the corporeality and fragility of itself.
My grandad was recently diagnosed with dementia, it's some scary stuff
[QUOTE=Recurracy;50643418]I've seen those images before. Really weird to think that the brain can just crumple up like a walnut[/QUOTE] It's never [i]not[/i] crumpled like that. It grows that way to maximize surface area.
[QUOTE=Mike Tyson;50636257]It is terrifying to imagine that one day I [b]could[/b] just.. forget everything I've done.[/QUOTE] I am afraid that death is inevitable.
alzheimers & dementia is some fucking scary shit, and sadly runs in my family. have a grandma with it, and seeing her progressively get worse and worse is a killer. just worried she'll hit the stage one day where she won't even recognize people in her family, which is getting pretty close.
My grandmother suffered alzheimer's, every time i visited her she'd ask my name and whatnot, it was especially painful when she would ask who is man with me, it was her own son, my father. this whole thing changed me, god rest her soul, it still brings me to tears remembering her becoming more and more child-like during her last few weeks. and i never really want to experience it again. nor wish it upon anyone.
[QUOTE=Ott;50645589]It's never [i]not[/i] crumpled like that. It grows that way to maximize surface area.[/QUOTE] Wouldn't it make more sense for the brain to grow in more of a kooshball type shape then? Get plenty of surface area that way.
[QUOTE=Ardosos;50646693]Wouldn't it make more sense for the brain to grow in more of a kooshball type shape then? Get plenty of surface area that way.[/QUOTE] Well there could be a point where you sacrifice too much internal area for surface area seeing as there is usually a thick band on the outer perimeter
[QUOTE=Ardosos;50646693]Wouldn't it make more sense for the brain to grow in more of a kooshball type shape then? Get plenty of surface area that way.[/QUOTE] The wrinkles have to be close to the solid stuff in the center [url=http://neuromorphogenesis.tumblr.com/post/146731581285/giant-artwork-reflects-the-gorgeous-complexity-of]This is the best visual representation of the inner structure I've seen[/url]
[QUOTE=Talishmar;50646844]The wrinkles have to be close to the solid stuff in the center [url=http://neuromorphogenesis.tumblr.com/post/146731581285/giant-artwork-reflects-the-gorgeous-complexity-of]This is the best visual representation of the inner structure I've seen[/url][/QUOTE] Well thick kooshes, then. Come on people, have some imagination.
That would make the brain a lot more fragile
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