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Age-related memory loss can be frustrating and scary. But it doesn’t always mean you’re on the road to dementia. Here’s a look at a few common types of memory lapses, and what to watch out for:
This degeneration also occurs in normal aging but is a much slower process. [21] The most common symptoms include: tremors, slowness, stiffness, impaired balance, rigidity of the muscles, and fatigue. As the disease progresses, non-motor symptoms may also appear, such as depression, difficulty swallowing, sexual problems or cognitive changes. [22]
Forgetting or disremembering is the apparent loss or modification of information already encoded and stored in an individual's short or long-term memory.It is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage.
Unfortunately, it is hard to provide a solid link between the shrinking brain and memory loss due to not knowing exactly which area of the brain has shrunk and what the importance of that area truly is in the aging process (Baddeley, Anderson, & Eysenck, 2015) Attempting to recall information or a situation that has happened can be very ...
That fatigue and related symptoms can be confused with symptoms of depression and dementia, he says. People with vitamin B12 deficiency may act forgetful and confused, and struggle with ...
Transient global amnesia (TGA) is a neurological disorder whose key defining characteristic is a temporary but almost total disruption of short-term memory with a range of problems accessing older memories.
The percentage of people at end of life with dementia using feeding tubes in the US has dropped from 12% in 2000 to 6% as of 2014. [ 249 ] [ 250 ] The immediate and long-term effects of modifying the thickness of fluids for swallowing difficulties in people with dementia are not well known. [ 251 ]
[1] [6] [7] Glucocorticoids facilitate and impair the actions of stress in the brain memory process. [8] Cortisol is a known biomarker for stress. [ 9 ] Under normal circumstances, the hippocampus regulates the production of cortisol through negative feedback because it has many receptors that are sensitive to these stress hormones.