PSY 3128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: White Matter, Solitary Confinement, Schizophrenia
21 Sep 2017
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Even if everyone appears normal and healthy, are some close to dementia: some people might have hidden signs of dementia and how close are they. This is an issue that researchers are being done on. Delirium: characterized by disturbances of consciousness and changes in cognition that develop over a short period of time. (older and frail are prone to this: ***polypharmacy or an uti, can cause a misdiagnosis, pseudo dementia. Vascular dementia: results from a series of small infarcts and is the second leading cause of dementia in canada. (blood supply to the brain, you can minimize the effects and the speed that it progresses) Prevalence figures: canadian institutes of health research (cihr) reported that, in 2011, 5% of canadians age 65 and older had alzheimer"s disease or a related dementia: this rises to 25% for those aged 85 and older. Canadians live with the disease, a number that is projected to be 1. 4 million by 2031 (cihr,2013).
