What "other memory disorders" are included in "Altzheimers Disease and other memory disorders"?
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Dementia is the umbrella term for any loss in cognitive function, Alzheimers is a specific type of dementia and then only one even partially well understood.  Besides Alzheimers there are three types: General Dementia (not too severe), Lewy Body Dementia and Vascular Dementia
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Memory lapse is known as Dementia in medical terms.Most common reason for Dementia in older people is because of a disease known as Alzheimer's disease.Another important cause is vascular dementia (stroke and related conditions).General medical conditions and Substance induced (Alcohol) problems are also some common causes.There are a long list of causes including Picks disease, Parkinson's disease, Vitamin B12 deficiencies,Hypothyroidism, Uraemia, heavy metal poisoning,electrolyte imbalance,.......
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don't know that one, but i heard it contributes to getting Alzheimers.
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Attention Deficit / Hyperactive Disorder.\n\nLike ME!
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You may not be able to easily find someone else on Yahoo! Answers with this syndrome, because it is so rare.\n\nInformation for question browsers about what this is:\nhttp://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/landaukleffnersyndrome/landaukleffnersyndrome.htm\n\nHere are some support groups you can contact to find other people having to deal with it. Even if these groups are not in your area, you can start to find a connection with others...\n\nhttp://www.sdrc.org/c_res_support.php\n\nhttp://www.rarediseases.org/\n\nhttp://www.friendsoflks.com/\n\nhttp://www.aphasia.org/\n\nhttp://www.cord.ca/\n\nmessage thread: http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=153
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Devastating! My mum has it & cannot remember what sentence she has started to finish it! She's only had it a few years but she can't remember names - even mine sometimes. Distant memories can be good at times but it's the more recent that is very poor. It leaves them devoid of functioning memories in the end - like how to deal with day to day living. Very sad,.
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Alois Alzheimer's, a doctor and academic, presented a key paper to the meeting of the South West German Society of Alienists on the 3rd November 1906. It was the first paper describing a clinical case of dementia and was an examination of the behavior of Frau Auguste D.\n\nFrau Auguste had been admitted to the Municipal Mental Asylum in Frankfurt-am-main, Germany on 25th November 1901 at the age of 51 years. The senior physician at the hospital was Dr Alois Alzheimer.\n\nBy the time she died in April 1906, only 5 years later, Dr Alzheimer had moved to the Anatomical Laboratory of the Royal Psychiatric Clinic, Munich University as a co-worker to Dr Kraepelin. Frau Auguste D's brain was sent to Alzheimer and his findings of plaques and fibrules formed his hypothesis that there was an organic cause for her condition. The translated paper, only three pages long, describes symptoms that included, disorientation, aphasia, auditory hallucinations, paranoia, unpredicable behavior and pronounced psycho-social impairment. It is interesting to note that Alzheimer made no attempt to place the case in any sort of social or environmental context. Frau Auguste D's past life and institutional incarceration seem to have been ignored completely as a possible explanation of Frau D's mental state.\n\nDr Alzheimer's description of organic changes, atrophy, neurofibrils, and plaques linked to dementia was not a new discovery, yet it is his name that we link to dementia in most cases. Why should this be?\n\nAt the time, the first attempts were being made to classify illness and disease both organic and psychiatric. Kraepelin, probably better known for his classification of schizophrenia, is the pivotal figure. It was he that incorporated the study by Alzheimer on Frau Auguste D in his 1910 eighth edition textbook 'Psychiatrie'. Kraepelin stressed the role of organic changes occuring in the brain in his theories of mental illness. He described 'Alzheimer's disease' both as a distinctive disease that resulted from the action of a single cause and a distinct subcategory of senile dementia. In so doing Kraeplin describes the clinical behaviors that formed a set of distinct symptoms resulting from a specific organic cause.\n\nOther exponents in the field could just as easily have been the figure head for a disease category, and instead of Alzheimer's disease we could easily be talking of Bonfiglio's disease, Fischer's disease, Fuller's or Perusini's dementia. Alzheimer just seems to have been in the right place at the right time. Kraepelin was making a name for himself as the head of the large Munich academic institution, he needed to increase its prestige and influence, what better way to do it than by using someone from the same department.\n\nAlois Alzheimer died aged 51 of tonsillitis which had resulted in nephritis. In his life time he published 19 papers on subjects as diverse as eplilepsy, the classification of psychiatry, general paresis as well as on dementia. He could have little idea that his name would become an internationally understood description of a disease suffered by millions of people.\n\nAlois Alzheimer born June 14 1864 in Marktbreit, Bavaria. Died December 19 1915 in Breslau.
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cognitive disorder are conditions that cause difficulty and problems with memory,reasoning,judgment,perception
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http://www.answers.com/list+of+genetic+disorders?gwp=11&ver=2.0.1.458&method=3
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Well..if you're trying to clinically assess someone for this condition, you might need a bit more information.  It could be a "Freudian slip", a form of "Apraxia" or what was stated earlier "foot in mouth."
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It depends on what is causing your memory problems.\n\nIf it is boredom, distractibility, or lack of interest in the subject, then the suggestions above are wonderful.\n\nIf you, like me, have a learning disability involving memory, then you have something else to do...\n\nFirst of all, if you have a true memory disability...what part of your memory is messed up? A) Is it that you can remember details but have trouble recalling the overall meaning? B) Or is it that you get the overall meaning but have trouble with the details? If you have trouble with overall meaning, list the details you remember on your own time and look for what they share. Make notes about it.\n\nIf your working memory/digit span (the immediate stuff you're working with) is not good (details recall, especially), then you need to repeat, repeat, repeat information in different ways until you have stored it into long-term memory. I survive spoken conversations be always focusing on the overall subject; but I can't repeat back details from it to save my life! Try making the information fit into fewer but bigger groups (such as memorizing a phone number as 555 - 48 - 84, which is three numbers, rather than as all seven numbers). For stuff you don't need to have in your head, always carry around paper and pencil. I have a couple of different notebooks and a calendar planner.  Then you only need to remember that you should be checking your notebook(s) every couple hours for reminders.\n\nIf your short-term memory (over several days) is poor, then you also need to store vital information in long-term memory, and on paper. You absolutely cannot "cram" for an exam. Do all your textbook outlining, etc. at the beginning of the semester, ask the professor/teacher if there are any pre-written class notes you can review ahead of time to be ready for the lectures, etc. \n\nIf your long-term memory is poor (stuff that stays in your head forever for most people), then you have to make sure anything you want to remember for later is on paper. If you have a test, do "cram" sessions. \n\nSome people with memory LD also carry around a pocket tape recorder.
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My mother has been diagnoses with Alzheimer's disease.  She has good days and some not so good.\nHearing "I know you are one of my children, but I don't know your name." can hurt.\nOne of the most helpful site I have found is the first one below:\nOf all of the medication she has tried, Aricept was one which had the best results.  Details for this can be found at the second site listed:
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There are more than one disease that affects the nervous system.\n\nI wonder if you're referring to Tourrette's Syndrome.  There is information on this and other conditions at:\n\nhttp://www.tourettesyndrome.net/
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Menetrier Disease \nMeniere's Disease\nMeniere's Syndrome \nMeningeal Plague\nMeningioma\nMeningiomas, Multiple\nMeningiomatosis\nMeningitis, Bacterial\nMeningitis, Viral\nMenkes Kinky Hair Syndrome\nMenkes Syndrome\nMenopause\nMenstruation Disorders \nMenstruation Disturbances\nMenstruation, Retrograde\nMental Disorders\nMental Retardation
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Deja vu is a normal experience that everybody gets. However frequent and intense Deja vu can occasionally be part of an Epileptic seizure from the Temporal lobe - but dont worry, everybody gets Deja vu.\n\nIt is not a feature of Alzheimers.
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Alzheimer’s disease\nDefinition \nAlzheimer's disease (AD), one form of dementia, is a progressive, degenerative brain disease. It affects memory, thinking, and behavior. \n\nMemory impairment is a necessary feature for the diagnosis of this or any type of dementia. Change in one of the following areas must also be present: language, decision-making ability, judgment, attention, and other areas of mental function and personality. \n\nThe rate of progression is different for each person. If AD develops rapidly, it is likely to continue to progress rapidly. If it has been slow to progress, it will likely continue on a slow course. \n\nAlternative Names \nSenile dementia/Alzheimer's type (SDAT) \n\nCauses \nMore than 4 million Americans currently have AD. The older you get, the greater your risk of developing AD, although it is not a part of normal aging. Family history is another common risk factor. \n\nIn addition to age and family history, risk factors for AD may include: \n\nLongstanding high blood pressure \nHistory of head trauma \nHigh levels of homocysteine (a body chemical that contributes to chronic illnesses such as heart disease, depression, and possibly AD) \nFemale gender -- because women usually live longer than men, they are more likely to develop AD\nThere are two types of AD -- early onset and late onset. In early onset AD, symptoms first appear before age 60. Early onset AD is much less common, accounting for only 5-10% of cases. However, it tends to progress rapidly. \n\nThe cause of AD is not entirely known but is thought to include both genetic and environmental factors. A diagnosis of AD is made based on characteristic symptoms and by excluding other causes of dementia-.
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It is easy to forget a name, an appointment, or the location of an item. This type of forgetfulness happens in normal persons. Common causes of this kind of memory loss include:\n\n* loss of concentration\n* stress\n* lack of sleep\n* low blood sugar\n* alcohol or drug use\n* side effects of medications or\n* an under-active thyroid gland\n\nA sudden memory loss or forgetting of past events is called acute memory loss. This can be more serious and may be caused by:\n\n* head injury\n* infection such as meningitis\n* long-lasting or repeating illness\n* a change in blood flow to the brain and\n* epilepsy\n\nMemory may or may not return to normal after these conditions are corrected. \n\nA slow and longer lasting change in memory is called chronic memory loss. It can be permanent. Causes for this are:\n\n* diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and AIDS\n* stroke or diabetes-related nerve damage and\n* mental illness such as depression\n\nKeep the mind active by reading, studying, working, or similar activities. This can improve concentration. Anyone with sudden, constant, or increasing memory loss needs medical evaluation.