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Can Alzheimer's disease or any other kind of vascular dementia affect your visual memory?
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What are the symptoms of Alzheimers and dementia?
Dementia is a term applied to a set of symptoms that negatively affect memory, but Alzheimer's is a progressive disease of the brain that causes gradual loss of memory and cognitive function. The exact cause is unknown and no treatment is available.
How will drinking alcohol affect your brain?
Drinking in moderation lowers the risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease.
How does alzheimers affect the system?
Alzheimer's is a debilitating disease that affect the brain primarily. It is a type of dementia wherein memory and cognition becomes gradually impaired. The cause is yet to be know as no clear evidence have been show to track the trigger of the disease. Depletion and improper synthesis of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine have been pointed as the culprit, leading to gradual atrophy or shrinking of the brain matter. In effect, this leads to a decline in mental faculties.
Does smoking affect Peripheral vascular disease?
One major risk factor is smoking cigarettes
How does alzheimers disease affect the body?
Mainly, Alzheimers can affect the mental health of the patient. Since one of its most common sign in forgetfulness, the patient may forget even the daily activities one usually knows how to do like eating or bathing. Thus, when this happens, the body also suffers.
Who will get Alzheimers disease?
That is exactly what millions of dollars of research are going into right now. In two seemingly identical people, one will be devastated by Alzheimers by their late 60's, while another will stay as sharp as a tack until they are 94. The only usable answer right now is: Anybody can get it. Most won't, mercifully.
What causes emotional withdrawal?
a form of dementia may set in as we grow older, this does not affect every one, however, this type of dementia could develop into Alzheimer disease which of course will cause the withdrawal from everyday life.
Does Parkinson's Disease affect your mind?
It can. There are significantly higher rates of depression (with cognitive deficits) and dementia, due to Parkinson's Disease, than would be expected (from comparisons to similarly debilitating diseases).
Does Parkinson's Disease affect your mind thinking?
It can. There are significantly higher rates of depression (with cognitive deficits) and dementia, due to Parkinson's Disease, than would be expected (from comparisons to similarly debilitating diseases).
What body system or systems does alzheimers affect?
nervous system
How can loss of vocabulary affect a person with dementia?
Memory impairment affects the ability of an individual with dementia to use verbal language because they will even forget how to talk. Dementia can be a slow disease but can be very hard on everyone involved.
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