PSYC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mild Cognitive Impairment, Vascular Dementia, Spatial Disorientation
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Neuroimaging: different types of dementia, whats it like for a clinician, frontal temporal dementia, alzheimers b. i. Learning objectives: what do we mean by dementia, loss of cognitive function, loss of executive function, structural deficits, prof d. i. More than one cognitive domain involved to be classified d. iii. dementia. Instrumental activity needs to be affected (activity involved in daily life) d. iii. 1. d. iii. 2. d. iii. 3. d. iii. 4. Self care activities are affected in long term dementia d. iv. 1. d. iv. 2. Preserve body preserve brain d. v. 1: how to think about dementia, memory is at its peak during the 20s a. i. Cognitive tests need to adjust for age a. ii. Aging trends: 1900s, life expectancy 47 years, 4% of us population were older than 65 b. i. But also terminally ill: 1990s, life expectancy 75 years, 2000, life expectancy 100 years (50% of population, aging important risk factors for the common forms of alzheimers and. Stroke: within 100 years, life expectancy more than doubled.
