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fredag 23 oktober 2009

Alzheimer And Dementia

By Jason Myers

Alzheimer disease is fine for 70% of all kinds of dementia. Alzheimer disease or 'AD' is a sluggish wworsening state of mind where a person slowly looses the ability of different mental processes. The main procedure that will lose purpose is the recollection of latest incidents.

The person will start forgetting where he left his keys or not recall what he did yesterday. The amnesia will slowly increase in gravity until the person will not recognize his own kin.

Amnesia is not the only sign that will show in someone suffering from AD. One more symptom that will strike in the early onset of the illness is loss of orientation in time, place and person. The person will begin frequently asking what the time of the day is and what day. He is not competent to name the correct month or year of the date. Eventually he will not distinguish his own house and constantly threatening to leave to his own house. When an individual looses orientation in person, he is not capable to distinguish his immediate family any longer.

There are different 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 failing it can demonstrate various symptoms that subsist in dementia. some symptoms are aphasia, apraxia, amnesia, agrafia as well as acalculie. Next to this an individual with dementia can show significant behavior issues and he will lose direction in time, place and space. Somebody is diagnosed with dementia if he has at least 2 of these symptoms.

Which kind of dementia someone has depends on completely diverse things. More or less we can say that there are 4 kinds of dementia. The most important 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 call 'others'.

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