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  2. Is My Memory Loss Normal...Or An Early Sign Of Alzheimer's? - AOL

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    Alzheimer’s-related memory loss is more than just not being able to remember someone’s name. “[We’re talking about] forgetting major events or having a loss of whole episodes,” Dr ...

  3. Doctors warn that pain in the neck due to cell phone use is ...

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    "Text neck is where people are hunched over looking at their electronic devices, hours at a time, really putting an extreme load on the spine," said Dr. Erik Shaw, Sheperd Pain Institute in ...

  4. Memory disorder - Wikipedia

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    The difference in memory between normal aging and a memory disorder is the amount of beta-amyloid deposits, hippocampal neurofibrillary tangles, or amyloid plaques in the cortex. If there is an increased amount, memory connections become blocked, memory functions decrease much more than what is normal for that age and a memory disorder is ...

  5. Memory and aging - Wikipedia

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    Age-related memory loss, sometimes described as "normal aging" (also spelled "ageing" in British English), is qualitatively different from memory loss associated with types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, and is believed to have a different brain mechanism.

  6. Problematic smartphone use - Wikipedia

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    Complete abstinence from mobile phone use or abstinence from certain apps can also help treat mobile phone overuse. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] Other behavioral interventions include practicing the opposite (e.g. disrupt the user's normal routine and force them to re-adapt to a new usage pattern), goal-setting , reminder cards, and listing alternative ...

  7. Frontal lobe injury - Wikipedia

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    Working memory is closely involved with the ability to hold attention. [5] Working memory is not simply how much information you can maintain in a brief period of time; this describes primary memory, and a small part of working memory relates to it. The important part of working memory is secondary memory, in which an individual retrieves ...

  8. Transient global amnesia - Wikipedia

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    The attack was witnessed by a capable observer and reported as being a definite loss of recent memory (anterograde amnesia). There was an absence of clouding of consciousness or other cognitive impairment other than amnesia. There were no focal neurological signs or deficits during or after the attack.

  9. Semantic dementia - Wikipedia

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    In neurology, semantic dementia (SD), also known as semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of semantic memory in both the verbal and non-verbal domains. However, the most common presenting symptoms are in the verbal domain (with loss of word meaning).