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Freitag, 16. Oktober 2009

Alzheimer And Dementia

By Jason Myers

Alzheimer illness is fine for 70% of all kinds of dementia. Alzheimer disease or 'AD' is a slow wworsening state of mind where an individual slowly looses the ability of varied mental procedures. The primary procedure that will lose function is the recollection of latest happenings.

The individual will begin forgetting where he placed his keys or not recall what he did the day before. The amnesia will slowly increase in severity until the person will not distinguish his own kin.

Amnesia is not the single symptom that will demonstrate in someone suffering from AD. Another sign that will strike in the early beginning of the disease is loss of direction in time, place and person. The person will start frequently asking what the time of the day is and what day. He is not able to name the correct month or year of the date. Eventually he will not distinguish his own house and continuously threatening to leave to his own house. If a person looses orientation in person, he is not capable to recognize his direct family any longer.

There are varied kinds of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is the most important type in this class. We can describe dementia as a collection of symptoms. When the brain is worsening it can demonstrate various symptoms that subsist in dementia. A couple of symptoms are aphasia, apraxia, amnesia, agrafia as well as acalculie. Next to this a person with dementia can demonstrate significant behavior problems and he will lose recognition in time, place and space. Someone is diagnosed with dementia if he has at least 2 of these symptoms.

Which kind of dementia someone has depends on completely diverse things. Roughly we can say that there are 4 types of dementia. The most significant one is Alzheimer disease as 70% of all the individuals who are demented are because of AD. The second most significant one is dementia caused by a number of strokes in the blood vessels of the brain. Third is a type named Lewy Body dementia and fourth is the type we might name 'others'.

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