Dementia Patho

True or False: Dementia can have multiple causes and is a sign of a bigger disease.

True

Explain Dementia

It is a chronic, progressive failure of many cerebral functions including impairment of intellectual processes

What are the signs of dementia

Loss of orientation, memory, language, judgment, decision-making, time and recognition with alteration in behavior

Dementia is not a specific disease, it is a group of symptoms caused by ________?

Brain damage

True or false: Dementia occurs in older people and it is a normal aging process

FLASE, although it does occur in older people IT IS NOT a normal aging process

Dementias pathophysiology Includes:

Neuron degeneration

Compression of brain tissue

Atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels

Brain trauma

Generic predisposition

CNS infections and neuroinflammation

Neuron degeneration is when

Something causes neurons to die, neurons do not regenerate

Compression of brain tissue could include

Brain cancer

Atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels

Ischemia - losing neurons

Brain trauma is when

The brain is being pushed against the skull bone

Genetic predisposition

Other factors

______ is the main cause of dementia in the U.S.A

Dementia