PSY 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neurofibrillary Tangle, Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Amyloid Precursor Protein
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Clinical assessment, mental health, and mental disorders (128 135) A family of disorders, which includes alzheimer"s disease, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, pick"s disease, lewy body dementia, and dementia secondary to. A dementing illness can cause loss of memory, judgment, and reasoning, and changes in mood and behaviour. Dementia is not a specific disease but rather a family of disease that are characterized by cognitive and behavioural deficits involving some form of permanent damage to the brain. Dementia involved severe and gradual cognitive and behavioural decline and is not caused by toxic substance or by infection. It is the most common form of progressive, degenerative, and fatal dementia, accounting for perhaps as many as 60% of all cases of dementia. Changes in the brain are microscopic diagnosis can be done only ay autopsy. Changes also occur in the brains of normally aging individuals. The progressive changes eventually cause so much brain destruction that the person dies.
