After surveying dozens neuroscientists, epidemiologists, and psychiatrists, scientists were able to decide on the top five most harmful and debilitating diseases to the brain; depression, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, stroke, and autism. After doing extensive research on each disease, they hope to use the research learn how to prevent and treat these diseases as well as use them to better understand the way that the brain functions and controls the body.
This article explores not only what goes wrong in the brain when these diseases occur, but it compares the treatments practiced by doctors today to the methods that will be used in the future. Scientists have recently discovered interesting techniques for helping patients, such as “injecting genes directly into the brain” to help with Parkinson’s tremors, using bat saliva as a safe compound “to bust up blood clots” that cause strokes, and using an “implantable” form of electric shock therapy to awaken a patient from......

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Title: Five Deadly Diseases Explained
Approximate Word Count: 570
Approximate Pages: 3 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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