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Alzheimers Disease

A neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration together with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. It is the most common type of dementia. The most striking early symptom is loss of short term memory (amnesia), which usually manifests as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily more pronounced with illness progression, with relative preservation of older memories.

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Primary Insomnia

An inability to sleep and/or inability to remain asleep for a reasonable period. Insomniacs typically complain of being unable to close their eyes or "rest their mind" for more than a few minutes at a time. Both organic and nonorganic insomnia constitute a sleep disorder.

Restless Leg Syndrome

An urge to move the legs, usually accompanied or caused by uncomfortable and unpleasant sensations in the legs that worsen during periods of rest and relieved by movement.

Migraine Headaches

A neurological disease, of which the most common symptom is an intense and disabling episodic headache. Migraine headaches are usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head.

Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis often occurs in individuals over 50 with morning stiffness, "noisy" joints, bony tenderness and/or bony enlargement of the painful joint.

Painful Peripheral Neuropathy

Pain in the hands or feet often due to diabetes and damage to the small nerves that subserve pain.

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*Information provided from wikipedia medical section