Psychology 3224A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Substantia Nigra, Norepinephrine, Longitudinal Study
23 Jan 2018
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Dementia overview: a diffuse deterioration in mental function resulting from organic brain disease and manifesting itself primarily in though a memory. Alzheimer"s disease overview: a subtype of dementia, first identified as a distinct syndrome by a guy name alzheimer, studied a woman who was institutionalized in the frankfurt asylum showing classic symptoms of. Incurable and progressive: not a normal part of ageing or hardening of the arteries, senescent forgetfulness: mild cognitive issues seen with normal aging, modest slowing in motor, perceptual and cognitive performance, mold reduction in memory and word retrieval. Basic features of ad: relentlessly progressive once you"re on the train, there"s no going back. Prevalence of ad: evans et al. carried out cognitive screening in a population of 5000 people over the age of 65 and did more detailed evaluation with a subset of them. They found the statistics listed below for the incidence of probable.
