Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia that causes complications in the memory, behavior and the thinking of an individual. As a common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s is known to affect up to 70% of all the people who have dementia. It is approximated that an average of 23 million people suffers from this memory loss situation. According to recent literature, the number of individuals suffering from dementia is said to grow steadily, especially among the old. Usually, in the early stages of the Alzheimer’s disease, those prone to or even those who suffer the disease experience mild to severe memory lapses which are coupled with difficulties in choosing the right words. Therefore, the process of analyzing those who suffer from this particular
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• Diverse types of mental stimulation make people who suffer Alzheimer’s to feel more engages with life since these stimulations foster their thinking capacities and mitigate any chances of memory lapses (Gonsalvez et al., 2016).
When incorporated in the fMRI scans processes, mental stimulation, which involves processes that are desired to bring pleasure to those people who are prone to the disease, effectively improves the scores on memory and thinking tests for patients suffering from any form of dementia, that is considered equivalent to about six to nine months’ delay in the worsening of the symptoms. Besides, different scholars contend that dementia patients who actively engage in brain stimulation activities are said to have an increased feeling of well-being and hence a better quality of life, unlike those who do not participate in mental stimulation …show more content…
This particular process involves a surgery which is performed under general anaesthesia. Besides, there are electrodes which are inserted into the affected brain areas according to the symptoms that are being treated. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), like other forms of mental stimulation, has numerous positive effects on the Alzheimer patients. This is particularly evidenced by a particular study conducted by Laxton et al. (2010). In this particular study, Laxton concluded that, a decrease in glucose metabolism, often causes memory impairment, which according to different studies, is hailed as one of the most reliable clinical symptoms of the Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, this being said, DBS is said to have positive implications on Alzheimer’s sufferers since the hippocampus plays a substantial role in encoding, retrieving and the consolidation of the declarative memory, which gives an Alzheimer’s disease relief to the
• Diverse types of mental stimulation make people who suffer Alzheimer’s to feel more engages with life since these stimulations foster their thinking capacities and mitigate any chances of memory lapses (Gonsalvez et al., 2016).
When incorporated in the fMRI scans processes, mental stimulation, which involves processes that are desired to bring pleasure to those people who are prone to the disease, effectively improves the scores on memory and thinking tests for patients suffering from any form of dementia, that is considered equivalent to about six to nine months’ delay in the worsening of the symptoms. Besides, different scholars contend that dementia patients who actively engage in brain stimulation activities are said to have an increased feeling of well-being and hence a better quality of life, unlike those who do not participate in mental stimulation …show more content…
This particular process involves a surgery which is performed under general anaesthesia. Besides, there are electrodes which are inserted into the affected brain areas according to the symptoms that are being treated. Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), like other forms of mental stimulation, has numerous positive effects on the Alzheimer patients. This is particularly evidenced by a particular study conducted by Laxton et al. (2010). In this particular study, Laxton concluded that, a decrease in glucose metabolism, often causes memory impairment, which according to different studies, is hailed as one of the most reliable clinical symptoms of the Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, this being said, DBS is said to have positive implications on Alzheimer’s sufferers since the hippocampus plays a substantial role in encoding, retrieving and the consolidation of the declarative memory, which gives an Alzheimer’s disease relief to the