2. A Little About Brain
HIPPOCAMPUS (Present in
medial Temporal Lobe):
The hippocampus is a
seahorse-shaped brain
structure involved in
memory, learning, and
TEMPORAL LOBE: Responsible emotion. It forms new
for Memory, Hearing, Visual memories and organizes
them with related memories
Perception, Categorizing of and emotions.
Objects.
3. Autism
Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) - Autism
Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first 3 years of
life, and affects the brain's normal development of social and
communication skills.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors:
The exact causes of these abnormalities remain unknown, but this is a
very active area of research. Some possible causes are Diet, Mercury
Poisoning, Vaccine Sensitivity.
Symptoms:
1. Repetitive Behavior Scale-Revised
(RBS-R).
2. Self-Injury.
3. Not responding to their own names
etc.
4. Hyperthymesia
A condition in which the individual possesses
a superior Autobiographical Memory.
Main Features:
->Recollection occurs without hesitation or
conscious effort.
->Memory is encoded involuntarily and
retrieved automatically.
From AJ’s Doctors:
She described her recollection as "non-stop, uncontrollable and totally
exhausting" and as "a burden"
15. MEMORY LOSS
Memory loss (amnesia) is unusual forgetfulness. It
may refer to not being able to remember new events,
not being able to recall one or more memories of the
past, or both.
Memory loss is not an inevitable part of
the aging process.
Does your memory loss affect
your ability to function?
16. Types of Memory
loss
Normal Mild Alzheimer's
and Dementia
Forgetfulness Impairment
17. Dementia
It is a serious loss of global cognitive ability
unimpaired person, beyond what might be
expected from normal aging. It may be static,
the result of a unique global brain injury, or
progressive, resulting in long-term decline due
to damage or disease in the body.
Dementia is not a single
disease.
Affected areas - memory, attention, language,
and problem solving.
18. Symptoms
Memory loss Moodiness Communicative
difficulties
700,000 people in the
United Kingdom have
dementia
24.3 million people had dementia
worldwide in 2005, with 4.6
million new cases every year
19. Forms of
Dementia
fronto-temporal
dementia
Alzheimer's
disease vascular
dementia
semantic dementia and dementia
with Lewy bodies.
In a nutshell, dementia is a
symptom, and AD is the cause
of the symptom.
20. When dementia appears the higher mental
functions of the patient are involved
initially.
Eventually, in the later stages, the
person may not know what day of the
week, month or year it is, he may not
know where he is, and might not be
able to identify the people around
him.
21. Alzheimer's disease
German psychiatrist and
neuropathologist Alois
Alzheimer.
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurologic
disease of the brain leading to the irreversible
loss of neurons and the loss of intellectual
abilities, including memory and reasoning
The disease gets worse as it develops - it
is a progressive disease.
There is no current cure for Alzheimer's.
22. Symptoms
difficulty in remembering recent events.
confusion, irritability and
aggression, mood swings, trouble with
language, and long-term memory loss.
And
Cure…
