PSYC 405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dementia, Microsoft Powerpoint, Coconut Oil
24 Mar 2020
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Dementia: loss or decline in memory and other cognitive abilities. This loss can occur from many different diseases or disorders or trauma to the brain (e. g. , huntington"s disease, parkinson"s disease, stroke, Decline in memory and at least one of the following. Decline in coherent speech, spoken or written. Decline in ability to recognize or identify objects. Decline in performing motor activities, sensory function, and comprehension of task. Ability to make judgments, carry out complex tasks. Must be severe decline that interferes with daily life. Most common type of dementia: alzheimer"s disease, accounts for 60-80 percent of cases. Much like the term cancer, which is an umbrella term for many kinds of cancer, Dementia is an umbrella term for a wide variety of diseases and disorders. Alzheimer"s disease is not interchangeable with dementia, as it is only one kind of disease with memory loss, and does not represent all kinds of memory loss.
