Memory Topics
- Memory = a brain function.
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- LMTX = Methylene blue
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- Neurology | Midlife cardiovascular fitness and dementia | Neurology
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- Addiction ...
- Alzheimer & Dementia
- see also: Dementia
- Alzheimer’s disease is just one of 70 causes of dementia (an umbrella term for memory loss due to changes in the brain).
Not everyone who has dementia has Alzheimer’s – it can also be part of Parkinson’s disease or the result of a stroke, for example.
- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition that, in many cases, is a precursor to Alzheimer's disease.
- Alzheimer Disease (la maladie d'Alzheimer)
accounts for 64% of all Dementia cases.
- We all have a 50 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's disease after age 85. Alzheimer's disease is not a normal part of aging.
- Dementia= a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases.
- Alzheimer Disease = AD is the most common form of dementia. AD is a progressive, degenerative brain disease. AD affects memory, thinking, and behaviour.
- Vascular dementia
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Semantic dementia
- Lewy bodies dementia.
- etc... (It is possible for a patient to exhibit two or more dementing processes at the same time, as none of the known types of dementia protects against the others.)
- Dementia - Wikipedia - la Démence
- Dementia is a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously 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. Although dementia is far more common in the geriatric population, it can occur before the age of 65, in which case it is termed "early onset dementia". Dementia is not a single disease, but rather a non-specific illness syndrome (i.e., set of signs and symptoms) in which affected areas of cognition may be memory, attention, language, and problem solving. It is normally required to be present for at least 6 months to be diagnosed; cognitive dysfunction that has been seen only over shorter times, in particular less than weeks, must be termed delirium. In all types of general cognitive dysfunction, higher mental functions are affected first in the process.
- Symptoms of dementia can be classified as either reversible or irreversible, depending upon the etiology of the disease. Less than 10% of cases of dementia are due to causes that may presently be reversed with treatment.
- Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia
- Alzheimer Society of Canada - Société Alzheimer du Canada
- Alzheimer’s Association (US)
- Alzheimer’s Society (UK)
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- Causes of Dementia
- Diet - Sugar - Carbohydrates
- mould
- vasculatory/circulatory problems
- chronic hypertension (high blood pressure)
- Aggressively lowering elevated blood pressure significantly reduces the risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and perhaps Alzheimer's disease.
- depression
- Depression may be an early symptom of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.
People who are depressed have an increased risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease—that is, blockages in the arteries that impede blood flow to the heart and brain.
Although depression was associated with an 85 percent increased risk for dementia from all causes, the risk for vascular dementia was 250 percent.
- vitamin deficiency
- Oral hygiene
- Maintaining healthy gums and teeth is important in reducing P gingivalis. Porphyromonas gingivalis causes corroding of the gums and decaying of the teeth. It is a well-known risk factor for heart and artery disease.
- Plaques give every sign of being the brain's protective reaction against inflammation. They're an effect, not a cause, of the illness that's eating up brain cells – the causes most likely being poor sleep (which prevents elimination of brain waste), toxins, chronic infections, allergies and all the other multiple causes of inflammation. In mice, the oral infection was found to penetrate the brain and increase production of amyloid beta, the Alzheimer's-linked protein. Most laypeople just think of it as brain plaque. P gingivalis also produces poisonous enzymes called gingipains which have previously been linked with two other Alzheimer's-associated proteins called tau and ubiquitin.
- How gum disease could lead to Alzheimer's
- Porphyromonas gingivalis in Alzheimer's disease brains: Evidence for disease causation and treatment with small-molecule inhibitors
- virus
- Herpes - Almost all of us have latent herpes viruses residing dormant within us. The problem comes when they're woken up in the brain by infection, inflammation, a stressful event or a weakened immune system.
- genetics?
- Copper (Cu)
- See also: vitamins.htm#traceminerals
- Tap Water May Increase Your Risk of Alzheimer's – Awakening From Alzheimers
- Inorganic copper in drinking water (delivered by copper pipes in the home). Inorganic copper in your bloodstream is called "free copper." And it's NOT good.
- "Organic" copper is the kind you get from the food you eat; it's bound to other elements like carbon and hydrogen. This copper is necessary for the body.
- Copper in multi-vitamins?? Don't take a multivitamin that contains copper. Typical multi-vitamin has 2mg Cu (Copper Sulphate), which is 100% of the daily recommended Cu dose (according to the label).
- The current recommended dietary allowance for copper intake for adults is 0.9 mg/d. However, the study did not find that high copper intake alone was related to cognitive decline. High copper intake was associated with a significantly faster rate of cognitive decline but only among persons who also consumed a diet that was high in saturated and trans fats.
- Hearing loss
- Iron ...
- Vision loss
- Sight loss and vision impairment strike more than the eyes alone. They're also linked with cognitive decline and dementia.
- Cataracts - those who accepted surgery had half the rate of cognitive decline compared to those who did not undergo cataract surgery.
- David Perlmutter M.D. - Alzheimer's and Dementia - David Perlmutter M.D.
- A Maverick Scientist has Made an Important New Alzheimer's Discovery – Awakening From Alzheimers
- Guamanian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/parkinsonism dementia complex (ALS/PDC) = a hybrid form of Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS – also known as Lou Gehrig's disease). Boiled bats contained a high dose of a toxin named BMAA – β-N-methylamino-l-alanine. Bats in Guam, until they became extinct, ate a diet filled with the seeds of cycad trees, which contain BMAA. The BMAA contained in the cycad trees originates in what are called cyanobacteria that grow on the roots of the trees.
- The amino acid L-serine, which is available as a dietary supplement, may help protect against these types of brain problems and lower the risk of Alzheimer's disease. L-serine could possibly boost longevity. In research on the Ogimi inhabitants of Okinawa, some of the longest-living people on earth, a dietary analysis shows that they eat foods – like seaweed – that contain four times as much L-serine as the average American diet.
- Study: These Commonly Prescribed Drugs Are Linked to a Nearly 50% Higher Dementia Rate - Everything Zoomer - anticholinergic drugs (a class of drugs that includes some antidepressants, bladder antimuscarinics, antipsychotics and anti-epileptic drugs).
- etc??
- Cures? for Dementia