Cognitive dysfunction is worse than the slight memory impairment when normal age
Slight cognitive dysfunction (in humans) remains a simple, but it may get worse and develop to become Alzheimer's disease. The difficulty in remembering things like names and places to put things like keys is normal with age, like hair loss, stiff joints and slow information processing in the brain.
However, some people suffer from mild cognitive disorder, the worst health problems, which is normal given the age, but it does not reach the degree of dementia that occurs in the case of Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer or other diseases affecting the brain.Dysgnosia slight
* The researchers called this situation, which lies between the two is the name of «cognitive slight imbalance» mild cognitive impairment in the eighties of the last century, and continued it ever since.
Remains a slight imbalance of knowledge at this point in many cases. At the same time, studies have shown that people who suffer from this condition more susceptible to infection with dementia by three-fold. The problem is that doctors have yet to reliable way to predict which cases will develop into dementia. Moreover, problems of memory is a presentation of many diseases.
The memory of any defect in the presentation of many diseases that afflict the elderly and not related to Alzheimer's disease. Depression and one of the clear examples of this. Was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on any treatment for mild cognitive dysfunction. It is recommended frequently to control the risk factors for heart disease, blood vessels, such as high blood pressure and cholesterol. No it is uncertain whether the perception and the formation of mental images and other means of strengthening the memory, useful. On the other hand, no harm from its experience. No harm as well as doing more exercises that can help.
Defect is a natural
* Difficult to distinguish between normal memory loss that occurs with age and cognitive dysfunction slight. In an article published in the journal «New England» of Medicine in 2011, said Dr. Ronald Petersen, a researcher and neurologist in the «Mayo Clinic», the methods of discrimination that those who suffer from the imbalance of knowledge slight forgetting events that basic and obligations they recall them in the past easily. They forget appointments and telephone conversations, and probably does not remember one of them sports fans as a result an important game.
Often aware of who suffer from mild cognitive disorder that they face problems with memory, but their talk about the situation may not be reliable in it. Warriors may think they are infected with the disorder when they encounter a natural case you forget, as he tries to others who are suffering from real problems without the pretense of truth.
The natural forgetfulness that occurs with age is explained to the close of the person, while others may not notice minor changes is close to that occur on them.
Other complex aspects of the experts made the definition of mild cognitive dysfunction more comprehensive to include two types: the first is the most commonly forgotten, and the second defect «nothing to do with forgetting» affect the cognitive abilities other than memory, such as the use of language and attention span and a sense of space.
May be forgetting the special problems of the early symptoms of degenerative brain diseases, Alzheimer's disease.
Theoretically can who suffer from mild cognitive disorder perform tasks of daily life, regardless of this diverse group of disability, albeit less efficiently than before, and rely on themselves to live. If the serious forms of disability a way that prevents a person from carrying out certain activities such as shopping and preparing food, pay bills, do not be a slight imbalance and approaching the end of dementia.
Assessment of cases
* Through a brief discussion of current events or family matters with the patient, the doctor can get an overview of the patient's memory and cognitive limitations positions. The information provided by the close of the patient and his family are very important.
The doctor may ask a brief set of questions usual in this kind of evaluations for determining the patient's deficits.
Questions may require the patient to remember a list containing words there is no link between them and do some simple mathematical calculations, and the name of the first U.S. president and current president and so on.
It is useful to use models include more questions and often asks her coach, a psychologist, but usually is allocated a kind of psychological tests for a number of neurological patients.
If a person suffers from serious problems related to memory, it is necessary to conduct a careful assessment to examine all possible causes, including depression and the side effects of drugs and the problems of the thyroid gland.
It may be important to do a CT scan or magnetic resonance radiation.
Dysfunction and dementia
* Do you will develop Alzheimer's disease? Optimistic view of the numbers is to consider that the number of people with mild cognitive dysfunction, which more than 50 per cent do not develop their disease to Alzheimer's.In some cases, moving the causal factors for Alzheimer's disease slowly or their brain is working relatively well despite these problems. Another possibility is that the disorder reflects another problem as well as Alzheimer's, such as depression.
There is also a certain percentage of people will die from other causes before they develop Alzheimer's disease, but there are ways darker to look at the numbers, roughly 1 to 2 per cent of the population develop dementia each year, but their proportion among the injured, disruption of cognitive slight ranging between 5 and 10 per cent. According to estimates in 2009, develops mild cognitive dysfunction in 7 per cent of the cases annually to Alzheimer's.
Treatment
* Of the proposed methods that prevent cognitive dysfunction slight shift to full dementia overdose of vitamin «E», but practical experience showed that this method is not eating much better than placebo. It was the experience of the drug «Dunbisel» cholinesterase inhibitors and in practical experiments.
But there is no evidence that this experience reduces the likelihood of injury patients with mild cognitive disorder dementia. There are ways to enhance memory, includes mostly through linkages between awareness of what we are trying to remember and other information. When these methods were tested and «cognitive interventions» other patients with dementia cognitive slight, the results were different, but a report published in 2010 explained that it might be useful to improve memory and mood.
Do you feel resentful if you are certain of your memory of the swing will not turn for the worse? Probably will not be disappointed a lot.
Frightening is the risk of Alzheimer's disease or another type of dementia.
Looking and researchers and private companies for tests to help determine the likelihood of disease progression to Alzheimer's that did not succeed in providing a specific forecast.
The protein can be monitored warehouses «Omilid beta» of the brain PET imaging, which is believed to play an important role in the incidence of the disease and that are likely to be available soon.
Can be an analysis of the proteins in the spinal fluid.
But the best analysis will be limited use without treatment. And may prefer to many not know that Alzheimer's is their fate if there was no opportunity to change this much, but hope that it helps to know people who face high risk of infection in the detection of more of the causes of Alzheimer's, so that it is possible to find treatments effective for the disease.
