What is Alzheimer’s dementia? Alzheimer’s dementia is a progressive degenerative brain disease that is also known as Alzheimer’s disease, senile dementia of the Alzheimer’s type or just Alzheimer’s. It is the most common form of dementia with about 5.3 million Americans living with it. It was first described in 1906 by the German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer who had seen a patient with dementia symptoms since 1901 ...

When somebody mentions having a migraine we tend to automatically think of a really bad headache.  Most people associate a migraine to be just that.  However there are several different types of migraines that display very different symptoms.  Migraine describes the disease which is the vessels in the brain have spasms which causes a change in blood flow.  Sometimes it causes extreme pain and other times it causes visual probl ...

Most of us face a time in our lives where we hit a rough patch and may not be as confident as we would like to be. And even though personality we have developed through life may contribute to the development of lower self esteem, we can increase confidence and learn ways on how to improve self esteem. There are many different techniques we can practice to improve the beliefs we have about ourselves.   Sometimes there are certain life even ...

The holidays are supposed to be a time of togetherness and joyfulness, but for some people they experience an illness known as holiday depression. There are numerous reasons why some people suffer from this ailment during this time of the year. And although there is not one clear cut solution to this problem, people learn how to cope with this the best way they can. Some of the reasons why people experience the holiday blues stems from circumstan ...

People experience bad moods all the time. Nothing seems to go right and although they try to snap out of it, sometimes it seems like it is inevitable that they will just have one of those bad days? Well, there are ways to help cope with days like this and much of the process begins with changing the way a person thinks.  How a person thinks mentally can be the key ingredients for the type of mood a person experiences. Often, a bad mood can b ...