MEMORY AND DEMENTIA PART 2- ALZHEIMERS SYNDROME
Hello everyone!!!. In the last blog I had given an overview of amnetia, dementia and its related pathophysiologies. Today, I will be talking about a specific syndrome which involves ‘DEMENTIA’ as a symptom. ALZHEIMERS SYNDROME: Alzheimers disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by progressive loss of memory. That means the memory loss is slow and gradual but it worsens overtime. This disease is the commonest cause of dmemntia or memory loss which almost acoounts to 60 to 70 percent of all cases of dementia. As said earlier the disease starts with subtle symptoms like difficulty in remembering recent events (antegrade dementia),which may go unnoticed but gradually advances to bigger problems like difficulty in speaking due to inability to find the proper word, the presence of mind is lost which makes simple daily tasks difficult, sometimes there may also be disorientation of place also as the person easily forgets his way back home or v...