PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Dementia With Lewy Bodies, Neurofibrillary Tangle, Mild Cognitive Impairment
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Dementia: gradual deterioration of intellectual abilities. Functioning at a certain level dramatically drops - continue with life, drop again, continue with life, drop again slowly progressive. Cognitive and intellectual impairments get worse over time ; continuous. Elderly will have cognitive problems with age; Mild cognitive impairment in specific are such as memory - doesn"t cause deficit in social /occupational functioning: each dementia syndrome has a unique neuropsychological signature. Cannot be diagnosed definitively when alive; except one. Type and patterns of deficits they display are unique to different dementia. Frontal lobe dementia lose executive functioning or behaviour problems. Not until autopsy that they can definitively diagnose: alzheimer"s. 50% of all people diagnosed with dementia. Usually begins after 65 years of age. Women live longer with alzheimer"s disease, but die more of it than men because. Typically diagnosed as possible/ or probable alzheimer"s disease and after death. Early onset is more progressive (2 times faster deterioration)
