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Neurology Field concerning the nervous system, especially the brain, peripheral nerves, and spinal cord. Studies in this field include Alzheimer s disease, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), carpal tunnel syndrome, Huntington s disease, dementia, memory loss, migraine headaches, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson s disease, strokes, Tourette s syndrome, and others. 

ChEI treatments have been expanded also to include other dementias and CNS disorders, e.g. delirium, traumatic brain injuries and memory impairments, as well as myasthenia gravis, glaucoma and parasite infections. 

True. Excessive alcohol use can lead to serious damage to mental health. Depression, anxiety, delusions and negative changes in personality can occur. Korsakoff s psychosis occurs in some excessive users of alcohol. This form of dementia results in disorientation, loss of memory and lowered intellectual abilities. It is reversible in some sufferers through the administration of thiamine (vitamin Bj. 

Everybody suffers some intellectual and memory impairment with age. If it becomes very marked or occurs earlier in life (40+) it is known as dementia. Although it may be caused by alcoholism, cardiovascular disease such as multiple infarcts, and is often seen in the later stages of Parkinsonism, the most common cause is a neurodegenerative one, namely, Alzheimer s disease (AzD). In fact this is the primary and sole cause in over half the cases of dementia and is a contributory cause in a further quarter and the younger the patient, the more likely is the dementia to be of the Alzheimer type. 

Dementia is the loss of function in multiple cognitive domains that occurs over a longer period of time, usually months to years. Diagnostic features include memory impairment and at least one of the following aphasia (deterioration of speech), apraxia (impaired ability to execute motor activities despite intact motor abilities, sensory function, and comprehension of the required task), agnosia (failure to recognize or identify objects despite intact sensory function), or disturbances in executive functioning.1... 

Dementia An organic mental disorder characterized by a general loss of intellectual abilities involving impairment in memory, judgment, and abstract thinking, as well as changes in personality. 

Manning CA, Ragozzino ME and Gold PE (1993). Glucose enhancement of memory in patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type. Neurobiology of Ageing, 14, 523-528. 

Marked forgetfulness often accompanies this disorder. As it worsens, this memory loss can be easily mistaken for early senility (dementia). 

A possible answer comes unexpectedly from experiments originally aimed at investigating the role of the pre-senilin-1 gene, whose mutations lead to familial early-onset Alzheimer s disease. This type of Alzheimer s disease is known to be the most aggressive form that can cause severe memory loss and dementia in patients as early as in their 30s. Recent studies have shown that forebrain-specific... 

Shumaker SA, Legault C, Kuller L, Rapp SR, Thai L, Lane DS, et al. (2004) Conjugated equibe estrogens and incidence of probable dementia and mild cognitive impairment in postmenopausal women. Women s Health Initiative Memory Study. J Am Med Assoc 291 2947-2958... 

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