KINESIOL 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Vascular Dementia, Microtubule
2 Apr 2016
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Canadian population is getting older (65+) and will continue to rise. Most aspects of cognition decline with age: reasoning, spatial visualization, memory, speed, vocab increases with age*** Advanced aging is the single biggest risk factor for dementia: risk increases dramatically after age 60. Other causes of aging: anxiety/depression, obstructive sleep apnea, brain lesions, metabolic disease, infection. Normal aging: not able to remember conversation or event from a year ago, not able to remember name of acquaintance, occasionally finding it difficult to remember words, you are worried about memory but family is not. Mmse (mini mental state exam: year, month, date, day, seasons (may not know despite obvious evidence window) Generic criteria for dementia: decline is interfering with daily function, cognitive impairment in at least two domains. Evidence for alzheimer"s: symptoms start gradually and progressively worsen with time, memory change early prominent symptom, no evidence of other abnormalities (stoke, tumour)
