Salem doesn’t remember

What is old age?
1. (WHO) set 55 as the beginning of old age. At the same time, defines old age, not by years, but by new roles, loss of previous roles, or inability to make active contributions to society.
2. What's the difference between normal ageing and dementia?
  2. What's confusion?
    1. is the inability to think as clearly or quickly as you normally do. Aka delirium
    2. Types
      1. Hyperactive
        Hypoactive
        Sluggish and drowsy
        Looks withdrawn
        Agitated
        Incoherent speech
        Delusions
  3. Dementia
    1. Factors affecting memory
      1. Sleep
        Age
        Stress
        Exercise
Anatomy of the limbic system
1. Limbic lobe
  1. Hippocampul formation
    1. Septal area
      1. Orbitofrontal cortex
    2. Hippocampus
      1. Dentate gyrus
        Entorhinal cortex
      2. Sabiculum
Physiology of memory
1. Sensory memory
  1. Ichonic (visual)
  2. Echoic (auditory)
  3. Working memory
    1. Visio-spatial sketchpad
    2. phonological loop
    3. Central excutive
      1. Episodic buffer
        Long-term memory
        Explicit
        Semantic (facts)
        Episodic (events)
        Encoding
        Consolidation
        Storage
        Retrieval
        Implicit
        Priming
        Procedural
Alzheimer's disease
1. Signs and symptoms
2. Pathology
  1. Tangles and plaques
    1. Beta amyloid and Tau protein
      1. Investigations
        Blood works
        CT scan
        MMSE
        Prognosis
        early diagnosis has a greater chance to benefit from treatments.
        Treatment
        AchE inhibitors and NMDA antagonists

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