Dementia pugilistica

that she was not receiving the help and care she asked for. Aside from the initial scare she had during the neck surgery, she has had doctors apparently turn her down or threaten to drop her if she asked follow up questions regarding things like her dementia medication, or side effects she has been having, and the ways in which doctors and staff members have treated her. She has, in turn, gone to see a lawyer regarding some of these things, who has told her that this seems like more than just…

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. Dementia is a cognitive disorder with two forms: neurodegenerative and vascular disorders. Neurodegenerative is a deterioration of the mind and vascular disorders are caused by a decreased blood supply to the brain.(Lewis et al., 2014, p. 1444) With Alzheimer’s disease, the brain starts to change with age and brain transmitters start to get covered with plaque, get tangled, louse connections, and cause death in some transmitters. These…

primary goal is to improve temporal effects of the brain, and help those who have trouble getting their body to listen to them when it tells them to walk. There was a series of fourteen studies, with a wide variety of debilitating injuries such as; dementia, stroke, Huntington’s disease, spinal cord injury, traumatic head injury, multiple sclerosis, and hydrocephalus. Although the journal does admit to quite a bit of short term improvement, it seems that they did not have enough participants…

"Dementia is a syndrome due to disease of the brain, usually of a chronic or progressive nature, in which there is disturbance of multiple higher cortical functions, commonly accompanied, and occasionally preceded, by deterioration in emotional control, social behaviour, or motivation"[1]. The prevalence of dementia is increasing worldwide. In year 2015, the global prevalence of dementia was estimated to be 46.8 million [2]. Dementia prevalence is predicted to almost double every 20 years, to…

Memory loss is something that occurs more often than not. Rather it be short-term or long-term. It could be as simple as not remembering where you last set your phone down or something as huge as not remembering you have children. Memory loss can be caused by many things, such as trauma, sleep deprivation, diseases, etc. The most common disease( known for memory loss) is called Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a mental disease that causes you to lose memory & often takes place in those of middle…

Aphasia is an acquired language disorder caused by damage in one or more parts of the brain, resulting in deficits in expressive and receptive language and can affect other language-based skills. Damage to the brain that results in aphasia can be caused by several events or neurological conditions, but the most common cause of aphasia is a cerebrovascular accident, or a stroke. People of all ages can acquire aphasia, but the most common sufferers are middle-aged to elderly individuals who have…

The total cost of dementia to the UK is estimated at £26 billion a year but only £90 is spent on dementia research per patient per year (Alzheimer's Society, 2014). By gait analysis being cost effective it will mean that more money would be able to be spent on research than the diagnosis. Another advantage of gait analysis is that it is not just used for diagnosing one type of disease it can diagnose many types such as dementia, MCI (mild cognitive impairment). It is also…

This video is about maturing and aging. In 1950 research on maturing and aging began. Development and growth are not the same in this context. Erikson helped redirect developmental psychology toward the entire life cycle from his own experiences as an immigrant. He developed 8 stages of development: trust vs. mistrust 0-1 years old), autonomy vs. doubt (1-3 years old), initiative vs. guilt (3-6 years old), industry vs. inferiority (6-11 years old), identity vs. role confusion (11-18 years…

Our interest in the topic of Down syndrome (Trisomy 21) started when we heard about how many people are affected by this disease. The number of people affected by this disease in the United States alone is around 400,000 people. This genetic disorder is caused when a person is born with an extra copy of chromosome twenty-one. Down syndrome is recognized by things such as short stature, a distinctive palm crease, stubby fingers, mental retardation that can end up being serious, a wide gap between…

MS occurs when the immune system attacks the myelin sheath that cover and protect the nerve fibers. When myelin is damaged the information, or the nerve impulses, from the sensory nerves can no longer reach CNS , which consequently lead to wrong responses in the body. Because MS is unpredictable disease, the progression of MS differ from one patient to another. Therefore, doctors have to follow the patient’s case carefully to recognize whether the Disease progresses to later stages or not. The…