The brain is the central organ of the human body and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the diseases that reach it are responsible for 6% of deaths in the world. To talk about the main neurological diseases, Dr. Roberto Kalil receives two great experts in “CNN Vital Signs – Dr. Kalil Interview This Saturday (19).
The Professor of Neurology at the University of São Paulo (USP), Ricardo Nitrini one of the great Alzheimer’s scholars in Brazil and the world, and the neurosurgeon and director of the State Brain Institute in Rio de Janeiro, Paulo Niemeyer talk to Kalil in the exhibition “inside the brain” at the Imagination Museum in São Paulo.
According to experts, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson and Stroke (stroke) are among the most common neurological diseases. However, tumors are the greatest responsible for neurosurgery, according to Niemeyer. “Then we have functional surgeries, which grow a lot too,” he says.
According to the expert, functional surgeries do not treat a disease, but interfere with symptoms. “For example, at Parkinson, the patient has a tremor that medication cannot control. Surgery can cause stimulation in certain brain nuclei that interrupts the tremor. That is, he did not healed the disease, but he interfered, and ends the tremor,” explains Niemeyer.
The neurosurgeon also adds that this type of procedure is being expanded to other health problems, such as morbid obesity, nervous anorexia, epilepsy, resistant depressions and compulsive obsessive disorders. “As neuroscience is advancing and you will understand the brain function, you begin to interfere with its operation,” he says.
According to Niemeyer, the prefrontal lobby region is where all the psychiatric function of the brain is located. “There is all our psychic life, our personality, our identity, and the rest of the brain is to obey the desires of this region. It is what makes us humans,” he philosophizes. In cases of psychiatric diseases, there is a chemical change in the region that is not noticeable by examinations, which makes the region difficult to understand.
In the case of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, research has advanced, but it is not yet possible to speak of cure of the disease. Nitrini, however, defends the importance of seeking prevention.
“We always ask the individual to exercise, take good care of their clinical problems, do a lot of intellectual activity to keep the brain in good condition so that if such a disease survives, it manifests itself less intensely,” he says.
However, the expert is optimistic. “We are walking very quickly, I hope that, in the coming years, we have new medications, new ways that prevent Alzheimer’s disease to speak out,” he says.
While this does not happen, both professionals argue that the brain is constantly encouraged to improve its development. “We imagine that the development of our brain is anatomical simply, but it receives a lot of environmental information. It improves as it receives information, it is a constant interaction that causes the brain to develop,” concludes Nitrini.
The “CNN Vital Signs – Dr. Kalil Interview” airs on Saturday, April 19, at 7:30 pm, at CNN Brazil.
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