BIO SCI N150 Lecture 2: 2
21 Dec 2016
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In ad, huge portions of brain gets lost. -> based on clinical observation (ex. loss of cognitive ability, to plan to learn from mistakes, changes in persoanilities. In clinical sense, one is diagnosed with dementia if it significantly interferes with the daily life of the individual. Won"t be able to do 9-5 job, take care of family but can do normal tasks like eating food. Other types- individuals may be hostile, angry, impulsive, start gamb. Moderate phase - people forget to turon off stove, wandering outside of house. Severe: can"t communitcate, behavior symptoms because they feel like they can. Severe: can"t communitcate, behavior symptoms because they feel like they can communicate/ hard to overcome fact they are sick, burdening family. Sometimes, difficult to determine if one has dementia because there are people who have symptoms but not disease. Initial phase can sometime be the longest phase. Semantic dementia is defined by language sybtype.
