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Loss of Smell May Suggest Early Sign of Alzheimer’s
Research done on mice might suggest that the loss of smell may also be a good indicator of Alzheimer’s disease. The research done by scientists from the New York University School of Medicine may provide a direct link to the development of amyloid plaques in the brain known to cause Alzheimer’s disease and a decline in the sense of smell.Alzheimer’s patients are also known to suffer from a deteriorating sense of smell. The study on mice might just show evidence on how this might come to be. Rese…
Blood Pressure Drugs May Help Prevent Dementia
A new study suggests that some blood pressure drugs may also help stave off the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Researchers from Boston University have found out that blood pressure drugs that block the protein angiotensin may also play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s and other similar diseases.The said study involved more than 819,000 US veterans, most of them men, who are taking blood pressure medications that block cell receptors for angiotensin. A…
Facts About Mental Illness
A mental illness is a condition that can disrupt a person’s thinking, mood, feeling and the way he or she relates to others. Mental illness can eventually also affect one’s daily functioning and means to cope up with life’s demands which can cause a host of other related problems. Here are some other facts about mental illness that people should know about. Biological Brain Disorder People should know that mental illness is not just concern on one’s thought patterns or way of thinking. The probl…
Adults Living with Autism
A nurturing environment at home, and later at school and at work, helps a person with autism continue learning and developing throughout his or her life. However, the responsibility of public schools for providing services to people with the condition when they reach the age of 22. In addition to employment, the family faces the challenge of finding living arrangements, programs, and facilities to match the special needs of their adult child. Here are some living arrangements for adults with aut…
Stress Disorder More Common in Women
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is defined as “an anxiety disorder precipitated by a traumatic event and characterized by symptoms of re-experiencing the trauma, avoidance and numbing and hyperarousal.”Researchers David F. Tolin, PhD of the Institute of Living and Edna B. Foa, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine recently did a meta-analysis of 290 90 studies conducted between 1980 and 2005 to find out who is more inclined to develop Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)…
Understanding Delirium
Delirium can be defined as an acute and sudden decline in focus of attention, as well as perception, and cognition. On itself, delirium is not a disease, rather a clinical syndrome (or a set of symptoms), resulting from an underlying disease. It is not synonymous with drowsiness and may occur without it. This is also not the same as dementia, although it commonly occurs among demented patients. And, contrary to popular belief, people who are delirious do not have hallucinations or delusions….
Understanding Dementia
Dementia is a progressive decline in the brain’s cognitive function, which is caused by brain damage or disease in the body that is beyond what might be expected from normal aging. It is a non-specific syndrome in which affected areas of cognition include memory, attention, language, and problem solving. Although this illness is common among elderly people, dementia may occur as early as adulthood.Symptoms of dementiaDementia can either be classified as reversible or irreversible, depending on…
Cognitive Disorders: Delirium, Dementia, Amnesia
Cognitive disorders significantly impair cognitive functions, especially problem solving, perception, and memory. Dementia, delirium, and amnestic disorder are the most direct cognitive disorders. Other types of this disorder are anxiety disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic disorders, phobias, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mood disorders (bipolar disorder and depression) and psychotic disorders (delusional disorder and schizophrenia) a…
What are Factitious Disorders?
Factitious disorders are mental conditions wherein you act as if and believe you’re suffering from an illness when in fact you’re not sick. There’s also the factitious disorder by proxy, a condition when you act as if and believe a person in your care is suffering from an illness when he or she doesn’t.Types of factitious disordersThere are four major types of factitious disorders: The first type has mostly psychological symptoms, such as schizophrenia: appearing confused, making absurd statemen…
What Are Hallucinations?
The word “hallucination” is a word that is used often in daily talks and informal conversations. We use this word to pertain to someone who has delusions about things that are not really there. While this usage is generally correct, the term hallucination has a deeper implication in human psychology.The word “hallucination” is derived from Latin hallucinari, which means “to dream, to wander mentally”. On a more serious note, hallucinations are associated with the mental illness schizophrenia or …
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