Those are the parts of the brain that get damaged. As a person gets older, they may develop plaques in the blood vessels supplying the brain. Strokes, aneurysms, or other ischemia could damage those areas more directly. They could have Alzheimer's and/or Parkinson's Disease. That would mean that they have amyloid plaques around their neurons or Lewey bodies inside them, and possibly that they are less able to use acetylcholine, serotonin, and/or dopamine.
One cause of loss of memory could be brain injury or trauma, which can affect the brain's ability to form or retrieve memories.
Senility is an old word for dementia. Only old people can be senile, but anyone can have dementia from brain damage.
Common and obvious symptoms of Senile Dementia can include, but not be limited to: forgetfulness, problems eating, drinking, and/or dressing. Being bedridden, from lack of unsteadiness in walking, can also be observed in advanced stages of the disease.
senile dementia
Dementia is a somewhat obsolescent, ( late thirties vogue) catch-all term for mental illness and means ( Out of the Mind)- lit. there was a sort of maxim or slogan: Ex Luna, Dementia, From the Moon, Dementia- or madness. The term is rarely used except for senile dementia- which refers to mental problems in the senior citizen bracket, Alzheimer"s for example. It is interesting both Senile and Dementia are Latin Based- Senile implying age, as in senior, senator- lit. Old Man! and I have already defined dementia. Dementia Praecox is an old-style term for what is now called Schizophrenia, Don"t be a Skeetz!
why dementia hasn't affected me as a person
Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Amnesia and dementia are two different diseases. While amnesia is more often than not, temporary, dementia is a long term disease that progressively worsens.
Dementia is an illness that consists of losing your mind, partially or completely. When it is the result of aging or Alzheimer's disease it can be called senile dementia; when it happens in younger people it can be called dementia praecox.
lewy is different parts of the brain which may have been affected. ie... the memory part, or speech part or co-ordination part, sum times only parts of the brain is affected in dementia,not all but sadly in many cases it is all of the brain
Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Dementia is a somewhat obsolescent, ( late thirties vogue) catch-all term for mental illness and means ( Out of the Mind)- lit. there was a sort of maxim or slogan: Ex Luna, Dementia, From the Moon, Dementia- or madness. The term is rarely used except for senile dementia- which refers to mental problems in the senior citizen bracket, Alzheimer"s for example. It is interesting both Senile and Dementia are Latin Based- Senile implying age, as in senior, senator- lit. Old Man! and I have already defined dementia. Dementia Praecox is an old-style term for what is now called Schizophrenia, Don"t be a Skeetz!