Neurodegenerative diseases

Neurodegenerative disease is a term assigned to a group of diseases that affect the nervous system (brain and spinal cord), are progressive degeneration and/or neuronal death. This kind of diseases, unfortunately, are incurable and produce a serie of debilitating conditions; actually to exist varied research about this topic.

Some examples of neurodegenerative diseases are Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other dementias, Parkinson’s disease (PD) and PD-related disorders, Prion disease, Motor neurone diseases (MND), Huntington’s Disease (HD), Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) and Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA); but in animals this topic do not have much relevant as in humans medicine.

The process of neurodegeneration is not well-understood, do not exist a cure for this disease
Do not exist a cure for these diseases because the process of neurodegeneration is not well-understood. Palliative treatments are performed, that is to say the disease symptoms but not controlled.

In Veterinary Medicine: numerous neurodegenerative diseases have also been described in domestic animals but relatively little work has been reported. Degenerative Myelopathy in dogs, is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease characterized by a general lack of coordination of muscle movements in the pelvic limbs. (185 words)

A career-related website that I recommend

A career-related website that I recommend is http://www.monografiasveterinaria.uchile.cl. In this website we can found a lot articles about different subjects of Veterinary Medicine. I discovered this website when I searched information about heart weakness in dogs, I liked the how to teach this topic; the information is very clear, the articles are in Spanish, also is a reliable website because there are articles written for teachers of our University, even of our Faculty.
This website I found it this year and I do not use a lot, but sometimes when I want to know some related with the career I search in this website. I don`t like that this site is a little outdated because the last publication is on year 2002, however I believe that is very useful for to know our career of in a way clear and amiable.
I think that this website of articles about Veterinary Medicine is a good way of begin to learn and relate with this beautiful and amazing career.(167 words)

 

A country I'd like to visit

I want to visit Iceland; this country is in Arctic Circle (European continent). Your language is Icelandic, also thy speak English and Danish. This is a small country, only there is 331,000 inhabitants. I want to go Iceland because I would like to know your landscape, have the Midnight Sun (really the sun is at 00:00 o`clock) and Polar Night (night has a duration of 24 hours); this natural occurrence are specific to Arctic Circle).

I would want walking, knowing and enjoying your nature and culture.

I don’t would like to study, work or live in Iceland because is a seismic and volcanic country, also is very cold. I like to live in Chile, I love your climate, landscapes naturals. Even I would visit England, French, Italy and Germany, in these countries I would like study. I think every countries has something amazing and unique, but i don't can visit all of them.(153 words)

Why I wanted to be a vet

 I did not have any other career options. I can not imagine my life without this profession. For the career election I tried to imagine me in the job, all days of week.

I want to be a vet because I love the science and obviously at  the animals. I want that the animals are healthy and with this career I can taking care of them.

I like surgery, clinical attention (exotic, little and large animals), research (in nervous system, diseases without cure as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases) and the animal welfare. Despite that I like large animal’s area I don`t like animal production. I want to continue studying because I want to be a good veterinarian and in the themes that I’m interested needs the specializing. Really I know that I like several themes but I believe that if I study and I make my best effort I can do it. 

My experience at university until now has been excellent. I have good friends and classmates, I believed that would very hard, but fortunately I was wrong.(178 words)

About me

      Hi!, My name is Constanza Paz Ríos Valdés.

I am a single Chilean woman, I am 23 years-old; I live in Santiago, Chile. I was born on September 15th 1990.

In my family we are six members, Georgina (my mother), Eduardo (my older brother), Sabina (my minor sister), Paquita (my sister dog) and Lucía (my daughter cat) and me (xD).
At the age of 5 I started elementary education at Colegio Santa María (Quilicura), I continued my studies at Liceo 7 de niñas (Providencia). Due to health problems I stopped studying for a while.

I study Veterinary Medicine (I am in my second year). I love this career, I don`t can imagine my life without this profession.I like the music (I want to learn play the piano, guitar and violin), the nature (I love the trees, water, the sky, the countryside), read (but I don`t like the literature books). I really like animals by their simplicity, humility, their ability to adapt to us, to give us love, their selfless company and innocence. We can learn a lot from them, that’s why I chose this career. I also love to share with my family and my friends.(196 words)