Nervous+System+Wiki+-+lydia+heter

The nervous system wiki was another group project that dealt with a specific disease and the neurotransmitter that went along with that disease. My group chose to write about Alzheimer’s disease and acetylcholine, the related neurotransmitter. This project was interesting because Alzheimer’s is a disease that I deal with on a fairly regular basis because my grandmother has it. I enjoyed learning about the different stages that Alzheimer’s disease goes through but was sad to find that my grandma is suffering from the final stage of Alzheimer’s where almost everything is forgotten, even after a short amount of time. Although my experience learning about Alzheimer’s and acetylcholine was dampened by knowing what my grandma was going through it was still a very interesting subject to learn about. Alzheimer’s is much more complex than I ever thought it was before and previously I had never even taken into account acetylcholine and all that the neurotransmitter does. The wiki shows that there is more information that one could originally imagine on the topic of Alzheimer’s and the acetylcholine related to the disease. The complexities of the disease were many but I really did enjoy learning about it, and I am sure that my group members also shared in my enthusiasm for learning about a new topic.