Sunday, October 18, 2009

Alzheimer And Dementia

By Jason Myers

Alzheimer illness is good for 70% of all types of dementia. Alzheimer disease or 'AD' is a slow wworsening state of mind where a person slowly looses the ability of different mental processes. The primary procedure that will lose function is the recollection of recent events.

The person will begin forgetting where he left his keys or forget what he did the day before. The amnesia will slowly increase in seriousness until the individual will not distinguish his own kin.

Amnesia is not the only sign that will show in someone with AD. Another symptom that will hit in the premature onset of the illness is loss of direction in time, place and person. The individual will begin frequently asking what the time of the day is and what day. He is not competent to identify the correct month or year of the date. Eventually he will not distinguish his own house and constantly threatening to depart from his own house. When an individual looses orientation in person, he is not capable to recognize his direct family anymore.

There are varied kinds of dementia and Alzheimer's disease is the most important type in this list. We can classify dementia as a group of symptoms. When the mind is deteriorating it can show various symptoms that exist in dementia. some symptoms are aphasia, apraxia, amnesia, agrafia and acalculie. After that an individual suffering from dementia can show serious behavior problems and he will lose recognition in time, place and space. Somebody is diagnosed with dementia if he has at least 2 of these symptoms.

Which type of dementia someone has depends on completely diverse things. More or less we can say that there are 4 kinds of dementia. The most important one is Alzheimer disease as 70% of all the people who are demented are because of AD. The second most significant one is dementia originally brought by a number of strokes in the blood vessels of the brain. Third is a type named Lewy Body dementia and fourth is the type we may name 'others'.

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