Jan 28 2009
More need to know demetia facts(part 3)
People with dementia have movement problems because of brain damage from things such as: plaques and tangles, brain bleeds and/or poor blood flow not because their is something wrong with their limbs, muscles, bones and tendons.
Another problem those with dementia may experience is the ability to identify people places and things. These people can not name simple objects like a dog or a newspaper. As these diseases progress, even friends and family’s faces may no longer recognized
The scientific term for this is agnosia.
The curious fact is not all people with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia have this problem initially. It depends what part of their brain is affected as I mentioned earlier, after the hippocampus being affected, the next part of the brain to be damaged is somewhat random
More tomorrow
by Susan Berg
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