GRN 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Atherosclerosis, Donepezil, Hypertension
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Benign senescent forgetfulness things that happen normatively. Hippocampus part within temporal lobe, responsible for memory. Normative loss of neurons (about 2 percent a year) after age 50. Changes in short-term memory, working memory, and long term memory. Long term memory tends to only decrease slightly with age. More subjective to false or inaccurate memories. Older people change the shape of the memory. Mental disorders caused by severe organic deterioration of the brain to a degree sufficient to interfere with normal activities and social functioning. Memory impairment, apparent changes in intellect, impaired judgement, spatial disorientation (wandering) emotional changes. Depression, anxiety, delusions, challenging or aggressing behavior. Said that changes that were happening to people were not normative. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the united states. We cannot say that anyone alive definitively had alzheimer"s. We can only tell that they have it until post mortem. An estimated 5. 3 million americans of all ages have alzheimer"s disease.