This impairment of mental function can be "senile" or can be a symptom of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Dementia  Signs, Symptoms, Causes, Tests, Treatment, Care | alz.org  Alzheimer's disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. ... But there are many other conditions that can cause symptoms of dementia, including ... Dementia is often incorrectly referred to as "senility" or "senile dementia," which reflects the ... core mental functions must be significantly impaired to be considered dementia:.
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Neurocognitive disorder: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia  Feb 27, 2016 ... Alzheimer disease (also called senile dementia, Alzheimer type) ... Symptoms can differ based on the disease. ... brain function (dementia); Severe, short-term loss of brain function ... Organic mental disorder (OMS); Organic brain syndrome ... Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease  Dementia due to metabolic causes...
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Organic Brain Syndrome - Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment of ...  Feb 16, 2012 ... OBS; Organic mental disorder (OMS); Chronic organic brain syndrome ... Alzheimer's disease (also called senile dementia, Alzheimer's type); Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease; Diffuse ... Symptoms can differ based on the disease. ... and supportive care to assist the person in areas where brain function is lost.
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Dementia - Wikipedia  Dementia, also known as senility, is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long term ... Cognitive and behavioral interventions may be appropriate. .... The symptoms of early dementia usually include memory difficulty, but can also include .... CreutzfeldtJakob disease typically causes a dementia that worsens over...
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Senile Dementia - Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment  Senile dementia is a disease caused by degeneration of the brain cells. ... elderly in that the patient's brain function will gradually deteriorate resulting in progressive loss of ... disease that causes dance-like movements and mental deterioration ... Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rapidly progressing degenerative disorder of the...
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Molecular basis of prion diseases - CiteSeerX  Alfons Jakob (1921) and Hans Creutzfeldt (1920) described cases of a progressive neurodegeneration of human ... disease, which was later named Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... cannibalism; the brain of the bodies was prepared ... to the suspicion of a cattle-to-man transmission. ... Kuru and Scrapie (Hadlow, 1959), and later also.
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Types of Dysarthria: Upper Motor Neuron Damage - CSU, Chico  As noted above, spastic dysarthria results from damage to the pyramidal tract. ... Therefore, only bilateral lesions of the pyramidal tract will cause a serious, spastic ... term bulbar palsy which is used to describe the symptoms of brain stem lesions. ... Parkinson's Disease, which is a degenerative disease, is probably the most...
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Ocular Syndromes - The University of Tennessee Health Science ...  Charles, Nichols, and Helena, and to Dr. Bruce Herndon, ..... Central Nervous System Deficiency Syndrome 218 ... Child Abuse Syndrome 1144 ...... Myotonia dwarfism, diffuse bone disease and unusual ocular and facial abnormalities (a ...... stiffness of joints, microcephaly; birdlike facies; progressive curvature of the spine.
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Senile Dementia - Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment  Senile dementia is a disease caused by degeneration of the brain cells. ... The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, a progressive brain...
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Weak minded? Are you sure about that comment? | A Spouse's ...  Mar 6, 2014 ... It was an article regarding how weak minded people need to learn ... or can change the way the brain functions and even in a physical aspect,...
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Gerontology - Wikipedia  Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. It is distinguished from geriatrics, which is the branch of medicine that specializes in the treatment of existing disease in older adults. .... The Baltimore Longitudinal Studies of Aging began in 1958 in order to study physiological...
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Medical Terminology for Nervous Conditions and Pathology ...  You need to know the medical terminology for nervous conditions. ... Aphasia involves loss or impairment of the ability to speak. ... It's basically a bruise on the brain. ... of the nervous system functioning due to abnormal electrical activity of the brain. ... The Greek epilepsia means seizure and is derived from epi meaning...
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Aging, Memory Loss and Dementia: What's the difference?  People with MCI have an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in the near ... These symptoms involve mental decline severe enough ... Alzheimer's in their 30s, 40s, and 50s, the disease is most prevalent in people over age 65.
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Is Mad Cow Already Killing Thousands In US Every Year? - Rense  After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no ... These were the first five named victims of Britain's Mad Cow epidemic. ... caused by eating beef from cows infected with Mad Cow disease, though, seemed to ... CJD they can't necessarily conclude that it's not linked to [Mad Cow disease].
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Prions - Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page  STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Reuter) - Stanley Prusiner, a U.S. biochemist whose discovery ... ``Dr. Jekyll'' character, while the other, dangerous ``Mr Hyde'' protein causes .... that infectious proteins can cause a range of degenerative brain diseases by ..... Prion protein structure and scrapie replication: theoretical, spectroscopic,...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Whonamedit - dictionary of medical ...  Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, then working in Walther Spielmeyer's (1879-1935) ... The disease described by Creutzfeldt in 1920 in his patient Berta E. was not, ... media almost consequently referred to it as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. See also: ... of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person.
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CJD and other Prion Diseases - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ...  regarding prion diseases around the world. As of May ... Prion diseases are a group of rare, invariably fatal brain diseases that occur both in humans ... first documented in 1920 by two German doctors, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt (1885- ..... Intracerebral transmission of CJD has also occurred with ... that are described below.
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The Clinical Problem of Symptomatic Alzheimer Disease and Mild ...  By relying on intraindividual cognitive decline rather than interindividual ..... The clinical distinction between depression and AD may sometimes be difficult. ..... Discriminative use of SPECT in frontal lobe-type dementia versus (senile) dementia...
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Alzheimer's Disease | UCSF Memory and Aging Center  Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive, degenerative brain disease that destroys memory and thinking skills, and eventually even the ... chromosome 1, and the amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) on chromosome 21. ... Visuospatial problems may cause a person to become disoriented or lost in familiar environments.
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Clinical subtypes of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: literature ...  Sep 24, 2014 ... However, two relatively distinct clinical presentations emerged: one group had initial features ... In 1949, Critchley first used the designation 'chronic traumatic ... 'psychopathic deterioration of pugilists', and 'repetitive brain injury'. .... The term 'traumatic encephalopathy syndrome' (TES) was selected instead...
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Prion Diseases | Johns Hopkins Medicine Health Library  Prion diseases occur when normal prion protein, found in many cells, becomes ... Prion diseases can affect both humans and animals and are sometimes spread to ... Neurologic and visual exams to check for nerve damage and vision loss...