PSYB64H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Traumatic Brain Injury, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Transient Ischemic Attack
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Bbb, csf and skull bones provide significant protection but damage can still occur. Nds can occur when a patient experiences a decline in functioning in one or more cognitive domains after a known challenge to the nervous system: attention, executive function, learning and memory, perception and movement, social cognition. A neurodegenerative condition associated with aging that results in. Probable alzheimer"s disease is diagnosed on the basis of: dementia: genetic testing/family history, clear evidence of learning and memory impairments, a steady, gradual loss of cognitive function without plateaus (cid:523)doesn"t get better/slow down) App (chrom 21), psen1 (14), or psen2 (1) genes: down syndrome (trisomy 21) more prone to azd. Atrophy (cell death) of the cerebral cortex & neurodegeneration: neurofibrillary tangles & tau proteins, beta amyloid protein plaques. Azd is expected to increase in low/middle income countries, compared to high income families.
