Tag: dementia
Aromatherapy: An Evidence-Based Overview of Benefits, Safety, and Application in Dementia Care
Aromatherapy, an ancient holistic practice rooted in traditional medicine, involves the use of concentrated plant-derived essential oils to support mental, emotional, and physical well-being. These oils, extracted from flowers, herbs, trees, and other botanical sources through steam distillation or cold pressing, contain bioactive compounds that interact with the body’s physiological systems—particularly the limbic system, which…
Overview of Huntington’s Disease (HD)
A progressive, inherited neurodegenerative disorder Huntington’s disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant, inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor dysfunction, cognitive decline, and psychiatric symptoms. It results from a pathogenic CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion in the HTT gene on chromosome 4, which encodes the huntingtin protein. The disorder is fully penetrant with ≥40 CAG repeats; reduced…
Lewy Body Dementia
What is Lewy body dementia? Lewy body dementia is a neurodegenerative condition with some features common with Alzheimer\’s disease and Parkinson\’s disease. In fact, 40% of the Alzheimer\’s patients have Lewy bodies in their brain and almost all advanced Lewy body dementia patients show features of parkinsonism. Lewy bodies are eosinophilic (alpha-synuclein) intracytoplasmic inclusion bodies.…
