2.2.5 Alzheimer's, Huntington's, MS

Most common lethal genetic disease inherited in a dominant fashion so there is a 50% chance of a parent passing it on to child if they are a carrier. Characterized by involuntary movements (chorea) usually in hands and feet, but can be anywhere, depression, and muscle weakness.

• Alzheimer's

• Parkinson's

• Huntington's

• epilepsy

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Myelin sheath of neurons are attacked by your immune system (autoimmune disease). Results in tingling in the hands and feet, muscle weakness, blurred vision, loss of balance.

• ALS

• Epilepsy

• Multiple sclerosis (MS)

• Alzheimer's

Short term memory loss which is progressive, change in personality, difficulty with time, place, and spatial relationships. Usually first seen as the normal aging process, but then becomes more problematic.

• Huntington's

• Parkinson's

• Alzheimer's

• Epilepsy

Irregular tangles and plaques of amyloid and tau proteins form in the brain neurons resulting in tissue death.

• Huntington's

• Epilepsy

• Parkinson's

• Alzheimer's