Bircher-Benner 24, Manual for prevention of dementia and Alzheimer's disease

Table of Contents Preface Introduction The structure of the central nervous system The cerebrum The cerebellum The pons The basal ganglia The thalamic nucleus The substantia nigra The limbic system The motor pathways The sensitive tracks The hormone-producing glands of the brain The posterior pituitary (neurohypophysis) The epiphysis and melatonin The nerve cell (neuron) The potential for action The synapses Inhibiting messenger substances The importance of the glial cells in the brain The spaces of the brain and the fluid in the brain and spinal cord The blood-brain barrier The myelin marrow sheaths ¿ a sensitive substance Demyelinating diseases Remyelination Diseases from storage of degenerative proteins The TAU proteins Amyloidosis The effect of nutrition on the central nervous system Two kinds of food energy The basic regulation system of the soft connective tissue in the central nervous system Oxidative stress at the centre of the causes of neurodegenerative diseases The influence of environmental stress from pollutants as the cause of neuro generative diseases The neurotoxic effect of mercury Organic tin compounds and neurodegeneration Chlorine and neurodegenerative diseases The neurotoxic effect of volatile organic hydrocarbons Pesticides and neurodegenerative diseases Wood-protection agents and neurodegenerative diseases Neurotoxic medicines and neurodegeneration Legal and prohibited drugs and neurodegenerative diseases Cannabis Amphetamines LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) Heroin, morphine, other opiates Cocaine Nicotine Alcohol Caffeine Regarding the phenomenon of primary and secondary effects and the danger of polypragmasia from medication The combined effect of harmful neurotoxic substances Vitamins, trace elements and neuro degenerative disease The diversity of causes of neuro degenerative diseases The various types of neurodegenerative diseases Systematic overview of neuro degenerative diseases Dementia Diagnosis of dementia Forms of dementia Dementia

About the author: Dr. med. Andres Bircher is Dr.med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner¿s grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive medicine, emergency surgery, pediatrics, psychosomatics, hematology, geriatrics, psychiatry and psychotherapy, as a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level. Training analysis with Brian Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in the western part of Switzerland. Study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neural therapy, manual therapy, classical homeopathy, Training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. Scientific work in food energy, dietetics and the effects of regulative medicine. Medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Center