Mini-mental state examination

for improved mental functions to lead to greater health and subsequently a better quality of life. The method in question is a new brain plasticity-based (the brain 's ability to change) cognitive training program (IMPACT) and its ability to improve memory. The underlying research question is whether the improvement of sensory systems such as auditory system function, will lead to improvements in memory and also, attention. Two previous approaches to addressing the problem of mental processes…

Cognitive training is a term that reflects the hypothesis that one can maintain a cognitive ability through exercise of the brain. This can be proven through many different activities which in turn increases the cognitive reserve capacity. The studies that are outlined in the following piece demonstrate the ways in which scientific researchers go about measuring and demonstrating an individual’s cognitive brain capacity, Cognitive Training, also known as Brain Training, is the ability to…

characteristics changed and can be associated with the neurological structures such as the myelination of the neurons as well as specific genes and the thickness of the surrounding cells of the neuron. A Study done on molecular neurodegeneration states, “Finally, we document that the loss of BIN1 significantly correlates with the extent of demyelination in multiple sclerosis lesions” (De Rossi et al, 2016). The study provides information…

The thought experiment of "The Problem of Mary" was generated by Frank Jackson to exhibit the non-physical characteristic of the mental state. The experiment goes as the following: Mary, a brilliant scientist, has lived her life surrounded by only a black and white setting. She did not have access to color, for there were not even any colored devices that she owned in her room. Mary acquires access to the outside world only through her computer, which only as a black and white display as well.…

slip is the most common type of memory loss found in everyday people. Memory slip includes small things such as losing keys around the house or forgetting what was eaten for dinner last night. In her article, “Is Your Memory Normal?”, Cherie Berkley states Experts say that mild memory loss is perfectly normal -- especially as we age. That's right, if you sometimes forget simple things, you're not necessarily developing Alzheimer's disease. There is a gang of people walking around just like you…

Introduction Nation wide there are around fifty-million people who are diagnose with dementia, and the numbers are rising making this one of the biggest global health phenomenon facing our world today (Sommerlad, 2017). According to our textbook Foundation of Behavioral Neuroscience Alzheimer’s occurs approximately ten percent of the population all above the age of sixty-five and a staggering fifty percent of people the age of eighty-five (Carlson, 2017). Although, this is a rising concern,…

Along with Steinert, Batten and Gibb were the first to report on what is now known as DM1. Batten and Gribb describe two cases of what they termed myotonia atrophica. Patient 1 was a 37-year-old male while patient 2 is a 56-year-old male. In both cases, the authors note wasting of the sterno mastoids, vastus internus and forearm muscles. Both showed a weakness of the orbicularis paperbarum and stiffness in the jaws and tongues as well as initiation of walking. There was lack of or sluggish…

fronto-temporal dementia caused by brain injury or Korsakoff’s syndrome, which is associated with long term excessive drinking. While these causes of dementia are not an exhaustive list, it is important to also consider percussive conditions or risk states for dementia, such as prolonged stress or mild cognitive impairment (Alzheimer 's Society,…

which is a term that is used to describe CNS disorders/diseases that are progressive (Damjanov, 2012, p. 465). These disorders typically present many different neurologic and psychiatric symptoms, such as “abnormal body movements and progressive mental deterioration”, and it is also possible to have either…

On November 25, 1901, Karl Deter, husband of patient, Auguste Deter, enrolled her in a mental institution called Asylum for the Insane and Epileptic in Frankurt, Germany where she was to be examined for multiple symptoms that showed signs of the deterioration of memory. Deter, 51, had been suffering from things such as, hallucinations, unpredictable behavior, and paranoia. She was also missing her sense of orientation and experienced lack of communication skills. The first person to examine…