Thursday, November 22, 2007

Alzheimer's Disease is the most common form of dementia

Did you know that It is a condition that affects the neurological health of an afflicted patient and is a degenerative disease of the brain from which presently, there is no recovery with over 4 Million Americans suffering from this dementia. The illness is devastating and robs both the sufferer and also their family and friends of treasured moments.

Alzheimers is equally one of the most emotionally draining and traumatic conditions for both sufferer and family alike. Memory loss is the distinguishing factor in all Alzheimer's cases.

However, in the early stages it can be difficult to detect as people often devise elaborate coping mechanisms that disguise their symptoms. Recent memories are the first to be affected. It is only as the Alzheimers condition progresses that more distant memories become affected. Short term memory refers to the brain's mechanism for storage of recent events or things learned. The duration for things stored in a brain's short term memory can be as little as hours or as long as a week or two. It is this recent storage capacity that causes initial difficulty for people with Alzheimer's.


Disorientation, for example, not knowing who or where you are or what day month it is, is a very common symptom of Alzheimer's disease. It is also thought of as one of the defining early symptoms as it is very closed connected with a person's memory or ability to remember. Insignificant things disappear first, and usually so gradually that it's not noted by family or friends for weeks or even months .

For more infomation click here.http://www.alz.org/