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2.4 million (2016) [9] Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that impacts a person's ability to perform everyday activities. This typically involves problems with memory, thinking, behavior, and motor control. [10]
A 2022 study found crossword puzzles to be particularly effective in improving memory and preventing brain shrinkage in people with mild cognitive impairment. Regardless of what your brain game of ...
Psychomotor agitation is a symptom in various disorders and health conditions. It is characterized by unintentional and purposeless motions and restlessness, often but not always accompanied by emotional distress. Typical manifestations include pacing around, wringing of the hands, uncontrolled tongue movement, pulling off clothing and putting ...
Alzheimer's disease ( AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [2] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [2] [15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [1] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...
The Lived Experience Advisory Panel is a group of people living with dementia and their carers, who regularly meet in order to feedback into and help form policies and practices of Dementia UK, from their own personal experiences. Ambassadors. Dementia UK works with various celebrity ambassadors to promote their causes. These include:
The bottom line is that you don’t want to expect too much from chocolate, at least not at this point. “An occasional piece of chocolate, maybe even as a reward for exercising, would not be ...
Wendy Williams’ team confirmed in a press release that the former daytime talk show host has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Aphasia is a ...
Semantic dementia. Semantic dementia ( SD ), also known as semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by loss of semantic memory in both the verbal and non-verbal domains. However, the most common presenting symptoms are in the verbal domain (with loss of word meaning).