- The document describes the story of the author's brother-in-law who began experiencing symptoms of dementia at age 61 such as forgetting names and became increasingly forgetful over 4 years. - Medical tests revealed he had experienced strokes in the past and his brain was experiencing cell damage and decline associated with dementia/Alzheimer's. He was prescribed various medications to help with symptoms. - Over the 4 years, he has forgotten all names including his own and can no longer communicate meaningfully or care for himself. Brain scans show significant loss of brain cells and damage to areas responsible for behavior, language, emotion, memory and other functions.

1. This is the story of my brother in law. His case moved me to investigate more about the brain
and illnesses related to brains. Therefore I took this course and I’m very grateful to have done it
because of the enormous information and details I have learned.
The person I’m telling about is an agriculture Engineer, born 1949 and was working in this field
at an international company and had good reputation and was well situated professionally and
socially. Four years ago, at the age of 61, he began to forget names of friends, of fruits, of
vegetables etc. His wife noticed his forgetfulness and insisted to take him to the family
physician, who prescribed at first Ginkgo Max to improve blood and oxygen flow to the brain.
The symptoms of forgetfulness didn’t stop. They consulted the physician again who advised to
visit a neurologist. The neurologist prescribed Reminyl at first 8 and then 12 mg and requested a
FMRI of the skull. It was then obvious for the neurologist that this person has experienced some
strokes in the past and is now exposed to brain cell damage (dementia/Alzheimer). The
neurologist prescribed initially Exelon Patch than stopped it after two months and prescribed
instead of that the following as daily medicaments:
- Cipralex 10 mg.
- Ebixa 10 mg. – 20 mg.
- Aricept 10 mg
- Acti-Gold, which was stopped because there was absolutely no improvements, but to the
contrary, worsening and mental decline were going on.
- Respiradal 1 mg (1 pill at noon, a half evening and a pill late evening)
Within the time span of two years, the patient forgot all names, his own too, he didn’t dare to go
outdoors. The lately taken image of his brain shows more black dots than brain cells.
Today, four years after noticing the dementia disease, he is helpless, couldn’t make any
conversation or communication only several words he could use mainly: FOOD, he means
something to drink or to eat, the worst thing that he lost his taste senses, he can’t notice if
something is very hot or very cold or even if the food is salty or bitter, but he insists to have
FOOD and recommends it almost all the time. His son and the new born grandson visited him
recently but he didn’t show any interest on them, although the son is working in a far country but
he was indifferent.
Only a lonely one skill he could well do, it is card and backgammon games. He could play till
now very skilled and it is really hard to win against him in Backgammon. Earlier he used to
spend time with SUDUKO, recently he shows no patience more.

2. It was obvious through following his case to notice the following: The more brain cells went
damaged the worse became his behavior gradually at personal, mental, intellectual, emotional,
spiritual and social levels.
The damaged parts of the nervous system:
The frontal lobe (responsible for behavior),
The temporal lobe which is important for language, emotion and memory is damaged too,
The limbic system at the center of the brain (particularly the hippocampus).The person can’t
learn and has no memory.
The Thalamus is damaged, the person lost his sensing abilities for touch, taste and temperature.
Through enrolling and pursuing this course I was able to find the relation between the personal,
mental, spiritual, social and behavioral changes occurred and the progressing damage and
impairments.