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What is dementia? Dementia describes a collection of symptoms that are caused by disorders affecting the brain. It is not one specific disease. Dementia affects thinking, behaviour and the ability to perform every day tasks. Brain function is affected enough to interfere with the person’s normal social or working life.
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Symptoms 1 Dementia is marked by a gradual impoverishment of thought and other mental activities that eventually affect almost every aspect of life. The most common symptoms of dementia are: Frequent and progressive memory loss. People with dementia begin to forget more and more, and the most recent events seem to be forgotten most quickly. Occasionally though, clear pockets of memory are still present, and these are usually triggered by familiar faces, smells, touches, songs, or rituals.
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Dementia care: What happens in the brain? Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of different disorders that affect the brain-... Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of different disorders that affect the brain-get the low down on the various types here.
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Overview Dementia is a collection of symptoms that can occur due to a variety of possible diseases. Dementia symptoms include impairments in thinking, communicating, and memory. Possible causes of dementia include: Alzheimer’s disease, which is the leading cause of dementia.
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Physiological Psych 2200 Causes of dementia. All dementias are caused by brain cell death,1 and neurodegenerative disease-progressive brain cell death that happens over a course of time-is behind most dementias.4,6. Nerve cells (neurons) in the brain-loss or damage can cause dementia.
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Dementia Facts Dementia often develops slowly and the early signs are not always obvious. Tweet Share Email. Symptoms similar to dementia can be seen in other illnesses. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell apart dementia from the usual mild forgetfulness seen in normal ageing.his means that the symptoms get worse over time. This is usually the case with vascular dementia too. The speed of change varies between people and also between different diseases, but in most dementias, symptoms progress slowly over several years. Everybody is unique and is affected in their own way.
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10 Types of Dementia Although dementia is most often seen in adults, childhood dementia does occur. While dementia most commonly affects adults, it can also occur in children. For example, infections and poisoning can lead to dementia in people of any age. In addition, some disorders normally unique to children can cause childhood dementia. Conditions that can cause dementia in childhood include: 1  Niemann-Pick disease. 2  Batten disease. 3  Lafora body disease.  Other medical conditions.
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GM1 Gangliosidosis Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, judgment, and behavior.
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Dementia - What Happens Some types of dementia progress slowly over several years. Other types may progress more rapidly. If vascular dementia is caused by a series of small strokes, the loss of mental skills may be gradual. If it is caused by a single stroke in a large blood vessel, loss of function may occur suddenly. The course of dementia varies greatly from one person to another.
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What is dementia? The exact symptoms experienced by a person with dementia depend on the areas of the brain that are damaged by the disease causing the dementia. With many types of dementia, some of the nerve cells in the brain stop functioning, lose connections with other cells, and die. Dementia is usually progressive.
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- Dementia is a general term used to indicate that a person has developed difficulties with reasoning, judgment, and memory. In order to be considered dementia these changes must be severe enough to interfere with a person's independence and daily activities.
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Dementia This article is about the cognitive disorder. For other uses, see Dementia (disambiguation). Dementia, also known as senility, is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning. Other common symptoms include emotional problems, problems with language, and a decrease in motivation.
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- The definition of dementia is fairly simple. Dementia is a group of diseases that cause a permanent decline of person's ability to think, reason and manage his own life. Dementia is caused by biological processes within the brain that damage brain cells.
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Dementia Dementia develops when the parts of the brain that are involved with learning, memory, decision-making, and language are affected by any of various infections or diseases. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, but there are numerous other known causes. Most of these causes are very rare.Dementia is irreversible when caused by degenerative disease or trauma, but might be reversible in some cases when caused by drugs, alcohol, hormone or vitamin imbalances, or depression.Therefore, it is very important to evaluate dementia symptoms comprehensively, so as not to miss potentially treatable conditions.hat are some of the other causes of dementia? There are many causes of dementia, including neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, blood flow-related (vascular) disorders such as multi-infarct cognitive impairment, inherited disorders such as Huntington's disease, and infections such as HIV.
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Dementia When this occurs, it is important to understand the disease; both its causes and treatments. What is Dementia. Dementia is an umbrella term that covers Alzheimer's disease, as well as a variety of other dementing illnesses. The dementias are differentiated by their presumed cause, which include: 1  Alzheimer's Type.
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Dementia care: What happens in the brain? Dementia care: What happens in the brain? Dementia is an umbrella term for a range of different disorders that affect the brain- get the low down on the various types here. In scene 1 of Louise's story, Louise is diagnosed with dementia, the umbrella term for various diseases affecting the brain and the way it functions.
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- 1 Dementia is a syndrome caused by brain cell death. 2  Neurodegenerative disease is behind most dementias. 3  There are an estimated 47.5 million dementia sufferers worldwide. 4  This figure is expected to increase to 75.6 million by 2030 and 135.5 million by 2050.
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Rapid Review Pathology Dementia is caused by damage to or changes in the brain. Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause. Stroke is the second most common cause of dementia. Dementia caused by stroke is called vascular dementia. Some causes of dementia can be reversed with treatment, but most cannot.auses that may be reversible. When dementia is caused by certain treatable problems, the treatment may also help the dementia. These treatable problems include: 1  Underactive thyroid gland (hypothyroidism). 2  Vitamin B12 deficiency.
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Dementia Dementia is a pattern of mental decline caused by different diseases or conditions. Most commonly, dementia occurs when brain nerve cells (neurons) die, and connections between neurons are interrupted. These disruptions have a variety of causes and usually cannot be reversed. Alzheimer's disease causes over 60% of all dementias.
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Alzheimer disease Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. Alzheimer disease (AD) is one form of dementia. It affects memory, thinking, and behavior. The exact cause of Alzheimer disease (AD) is not known. Research shows that certain changes in the brain lead to AD. You are more likely to develop AD if you:
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Symptoms 1 1 Occasionally, everyone has trouble finding the right word, but a person with dementia often forgets simple words or substitutes unusual words, making speech or writing hard to understand.  Confusion: This behaviour causes a person with dementia to become estranged from others and to be unpredictable in interactions. Confusion can also occur acutely, that is, suddenly and limited in time (for example, triggered by a hospital stay). In addition to this general confusion, people with dementia are disoriented in time and place. They often forget the current time and get lost in a familiar environment.
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Dementia: Symptoms, stages, and types Dementia causes. Dementias can be caused by brain cell death, and neurodegenerative disease - progressive brain cell death that happens over time - is associated with most dementias. However it is not known if the dementia causes the brain cell death, or the brain cell death causes the dementia. But, as well as progressive brain cell death, like that seen in Alzheimer's disease, dementia can be caused by a head injury, a stroke, or a brain tumor, among other causes.
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Rapid Review Pathology The most common causes of dementia include: 1  Degenerative neurological diseases. 2  Vascular disorders. 3  Traumatic brain injuries caused by car accidents, falls, concussions, etc.  Infections of the central nervous 1  system. Long-time alcohol or drug 2  use. Certain types of hydrocephalus, a buildup of fluid in the brain.
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Dementia What is late stage dementia? Late stage dementia can also be called advanced or severe dementia. It usually means a person has had dementia for some time and so there is now significant damage to their brain. This means high levels of support and care are needed. Symptoms of late stage dementia During the later stages of dementia, people become increasingly frail. The damage caused to the brain means that a person with dementia can no longer do many of the things they used to do. The following gives an outline of symptoms that may emerge. Not every person with dementia will experience all of these symptoms and usually the symptoms emerge gradually. A person with late stage dementia may:
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- Dementia is the loss of a person's cognitive, or intellectual, function. those conscious mental tasks that we perform every waking second of every day, from remembering our name to performing complicated mathematical calculations. Memory is one of the most essential cognitive functions, and it is the often the first and most crucial one that dementia impairs.
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Lewy body dementia Lewy body dementia. Lewy body dementia is a form of dementia that occurs because of abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein inside the brain's nerve cells. These deposits are called Lewy bodies, after the scientist who first described them. The deposits interrupt the brain’s messages.
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What is dementia? Dementia with Lewy bodies is a form of dementia that occurs due to clumps of a protein in the cortex. In addition to memory loss and confusion, dementia with Lewy bodies can also cause: 1  sleep disturbances.  hallucination.