• Question: What type of brain disease does the least harm?

    Asked by anon-258317 to Tiffany on 13 Jul 2020.
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      Tiffany Chan answered on 13 Jul 2020: last edited 13 Jul 2020 7:30 pm

      Hi Mikkel! This is a really excellent question, and one that I don’t think there is an answer to! It really depends on the particular individual and severity of the disease – for example, some people will recover from having a stroke, whereas others will die. It also depends on what you consider ‘harm’ to be; whilst people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease will usually live for 8-10 years after diagnosis, we currently have no way of curing it! (and so, in a way, this is permanent damage…)

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    Martin commented on :

    I had viral meningitis a few years ago (your ‘meninges’ are the membranes that surround your brain and ‘itis’ on the end of a disease tells you it is an inflammation). All forms of meningitis need to be taken very seriously, they can be very bad. But like most people with viral meningitis I was OK after a few days. 😀