PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Bibliotherapy, Anhedonia, Genetic Disorder
12 Jul 2013
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Slowly progressive: the cognitive, intellectual and behavioural impairments gets worse slowly over time there is no dramatic change in function, it is continuous and takes usually 8 10 years from first diagnosis to death. Women tend to live longer with ad, but more women die from ad as men die more from the co morbid conditions. E4 allele is a risk factor of early onset, one increases chance of ad by 40%, two ad prevalence is. 90%, but it is not a bio marker, just a sub group. When hallucinations are present in ad they are most commonly a result of medicinal side effects. Or they might have lewy body dementia fairly new, clinically looks like ad but main differentiating symptom is the presence of hallucinations. Psyb32 10 the posterior part of the frontal lobe and the medial/anterior part of the temporal lobe undergo a process called atrophy.
