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Jan 25, 2024 · Explore mental stimulation activities, physical exercises, mindful practices and dietary tips to promote optimal brain health and maintain cognitive function as you age.
Jan 12, 2024 · Challenging and engaging your brain throughout your lifetime may increase your cognitive reserve and the brain protection it offers. Addressing general health issues, such as physical inactivity, high blood pressure, tobacco use, stress and anxiety, has also been shown to be helpful for brain functioning and mental health.
A road map to further elucidate the mechanisms, diagnosis, risk factors, mitigation, and treatment of postoperative cognitive decline in the elderly is provided.
- Niccolò Terrando, Marek Brzezinski, Vincent Degos, Lars I. Eriksson, Lars I. Eriksson, Joel H. Krame...
- 2011
Linked Article. Parasomnias are abnormal behaviors occurring during sleep. In older adults, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is the most common parasomnia, with a community prevalence of approximately 1% to 2% using polysomnography (PSG) and 7% to 13% using questionnaires.
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Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for a group of brain disorders that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These areas of the brain are generally associated with personality, behavior and language. In frontotemporal dementia, portions of these lobes shrink (atrophy). Signs and symptoms vary, depending on which par...
Signs and symptoms of frontotemporal dementia can be different from one individual to the next. Signs and symptoms get progressively worse over time, usually over years. Clusters of symptom types tend to occur together, and people may have more than one cluster of symptom types.
In frontotemporal dementia, the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain shrink. In addition, certain substances accumulate in the brain. What causes these changes is usually unknown. There are genetic mutations that have been linked to frontotemporal dementia. But more than half of the people who develop frontotemporal dementia have no family histo...
Your risk of developing frontotemporal dementia is higher if you have a family history of dementia. There are no other known risk factors.
Sep 20, 2023 · Summary. Dementia steadily damages parts of the brain. For this reason, people with dementia may experience delusions and hallucinations. This can lead to symptoms of paranoia and cause mistrust...
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The symptoms of the earliest PD stages, such as rapid eye movement sleep behavior, constipation (dysautonomia), or olfactory deficits, reflect involvement of nondopaminergic regions, as do the later PD states in which dementia, hallucinations, or levodopa-refractory symptoms may surface.
