Alzheimer Disease - Ayurvedic Herbal Treatment
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder involving cognitive and behavioral impairment. This condition is chronic and progressive, and severely impairs day to day activities, as well as social and occupational functioning. It affects the hippocampus, a part deep within the brain which helps to encode memories, as well as parts of the cerebral cortex which are involved in thinking and making decisions. Structural changes may begin to appear in the brain several decades before actual appearance of signs and symptoms. AD patients usually go through 4 clinical stages. In the first, preclinical stage, the hippocampus and nearby brain areas get affected and start shrinking; however, patients are usually clinically unaffected. In the next stage known as mild AD, the cerebral cortex too gets affected, giving rise to symptoms such as memory loss; getting lost; difficulty in doing daily activities, handling finances, making judgments; loss of spontaneity and initiative; and mood an...