Kinesiology 1070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Tau Protein
31 Oct 2016
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Dementia and Exercise
Affects memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily
functioning
Alzheimers is most common form of progressive dementia
Causes slight but noticeable decline in cognitive abilities
Causes- damage of nerve cells in brain that can occur in several areas of the brain
Patients with alzheimers have plaques( clumps of protein called beta-amyloid) and
tangles ( fibrous tangles made up of tau protein) in their brain
Other types of progressive dementia
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy- found in athletes with history of
repetitive brain trauma
Dementia- like conditions that can be reversed
• Infections and immune disorders
• Metabolic problems
• Endocrine abnormalities
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Reaction to medication
Risk Factors that can’t be changed
• Age
• Family History
• Down syndrome
• Mild cognitive impairment
Prevalence of dementia expected to double from 35.6 million to 65.7 million
Risk factors you can change
• Heavy alcohol consumption
• Cardiovascular
• Depression
• Diabetes
• Smoking
• Sleep apnea
Exercise can help with using these risk factors
Dementia can lead to inadequate nutrition, pneumonia, inability to perform self-care
tasks and death
There is no single test used to diagnose dementia
Diagnosis requires at least 2 core mental functions to be impaired enough to
interfere with daily living
Clinicians use cognitive and neuropsychological tests, neurological evaluations,
brain scans, lab tests and psychiatric evaluation
Did you know
Women had better verbal memory than men at equivalent stage of alzheimers
which masks early symptoms of alzheimers in women
Treatment for dementia
Medications
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Document Summary
Affects memory, thinking and social abilities severely enough to interfere with daily functioning. Alzheimers is most common form of progressive dementia. Causes slight but noticeable decline in cognitive abilities. Causes- damage of nerve cells in brain that can occur in several areas of the brain. Patients with alzheimers have plaques( clumps of protein called beta-amyloid) and tangles ( fibrous tangles made up of tau protein) in their brain. Other types of progressive dementia: chronic traumatic encephalopathy- found in athletes with history of repetitive brain trauma. Infections and immune disorders: metabolic problems, endocrine abnormalities, nutritional deficiencies, reaction to medication. Risk factors that can"t be changed: age, family history, down syndrome, mild cognitive impairment. Prevalence of dementia expected to double from 35. 6 million to 65. 7 million. Risk factors you can change: heavy alcohol consumption, cardiovascular, depression, diabetes, smoking, sleep apnea. Exercise can help with using these risk factors. Dementia can lead to inadequate nutrition, pneumonia, inability to perform self-care tasks and death.
