PSY372H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Verbal Memory, Thiamine, Temporal Lobe
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After these are ruled out, then it"s accurate start point that mci will lead to dementia. Mci clinical criteria: observation by themselves or people around them, be tested and show that they"re impaired on standardized tests (objective) not just basic observations (subjective, continuous and progressive decline over time (impairments) If it"s stable or increases, it may be due to other factors. Still can function properly without assistance by others: can"t be formally diagnosed with dementia. Demonstrating deficits in memory while showing preserved cognitive profile (iq, language, visual processing, executive functioning: non-amnestic. Don"t have significant memory problem, but they"re show prominent deficit in other domains like language, or executive functions. Memory + something else (language, spatial processing, executive functions, etc;) Dementia etiologies: alzhemiers (50% of most cases, vascular (20%, frontotemporal dementia. Fascinating; presented much earlier in life (50s-60s); presents behavioural change. Lose ability to properly conduct themselves in social settings: can"t regulate emotions, lose empathy, lewy body.
