PSYCO239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Dsm-5, Epilepsy, Dementia
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Because alzheimer"s disease resembles creutzfeldt-jakob disease (a form of dementia caused by a virus), some researchers propose that a similar virus may cause alzheimer"s disease. To date, no such virus has been detected in the brains of alzheimer"s victims. Brain scans are now used commonly as assessment tools and often provide. Assessing and predicting alzheimer"s disease clinicians with considerable confidence in their diagnoses of alzheimer"s persons likely to develop alzheimer"s disease and other types of. The most effective interventions for dementia are those that help prevent. May follow a cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, during which blood flow to specific areas of the brain was cut off, with resultant damage. This disorder is progressive but its symptoms begin suddenly, rather than gradually. A number of other disorders may also lead to dementia, including: Pick"s disease (frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder) a rare disorder. Creutzfeldt-jakob disease (neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease) . Huntington"s disease an inherited progressive disease in which memory.
