July 2, 2016 in Science & Technology

Alzheimer’s and the Brain

Vsauce is proud to announce our support for Alzheimer’s Association’s #TheLongestDay now and throughout June during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month. Visit http://www.alz.org/Vsauce to join us! More good links: http://www.alz.org/facts/ Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures [PDF]: http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/2016-facts-and-figures.pdf Basics of Alzheimer’s disease. “What it is and what you can do” [PDF] http://www.alz.org/national/documents/brochure_basicsofalz_low.pdf 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 movement around galactic center: https://twitter.com/skyponderer/status/735788050316288004 brain facts: https://www.brainscape.com/blog/2012/03/facts-gray-matter/ cortex thickness: http://www.pnas.org/content/97/20/11050.full more on cortex: http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/nb204/MultipleCorticalAreas-nb204-unit04-16feb2011.pdf http://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/cerebral-cortex-folds-paper APP: 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: how proteins are formed from DNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K8Y0ATkkAI Memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_potentiation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal_memory_allocation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory Why