Unfortunately, over the years, almost everything has become unusable, even such a perfect mechanism as the human body. In old age, it makes sense to talk about directly senile diseases that can occur only after sixty years.
For example, at this time you can easily notice any symptom of dementia, but if you do not pay attention to it at the time, further development of events may not be very pleasant. If we talk about this disease from a medical point of view, then it is a disorder of the so-called "nervous activity" of the body, caused, in turn, by an organic lesion of the brain - the main organ responsible for all actions. Decreased mental ability is far from the only unpleasant consequence that leads to
senile dementia. Symptoms of it can be manifested in a
deterioration of memory, a speech disorder, as well as a decrease in the ability to abstract thinking.
In principle, the clinical picture of the disease will completely depend directly on the cause that caused the brain damage, as well as on the vastness of the spread of the disease. However, the symptom of dementia in all cases has the same nature - the ability to think and mental activity per se is completely reduced. It is worth noting that this disease in medicine is usually divided into some types, depending on the degree of damage to the cerebral cortex, as well as on what it was originally caused.
Moreover, specific types should be noted when a symptom of dementia occurs directly as a result of Alzheimer's, Peak or Levy diseases. In this case, the destruction of the cerebral cortex will be an independent and leading process.
It is noteworthy that in some cases it is worth talking about the secondary nature of such a phenomenon as vascular dementia. Symptoms in this case will be similar to those of the usual type of illness, but it will occur against the background of other diseases, for example, as a result of infections, injuries and vascular pathologies that have an age limit. Especially common in this case will be vascular atherosclerosis or advanced hypertension.
It is also worth paying attention to the AIDS virus, in the last stages of which a symptom of dementia in the form of a distracted consciousness will manifest itself in any case. In addition, such a diagnosis can be detected as a result of virtually any advanced viral diseases, such as meningitis or encephalitis, when the acquired virus reaches directly to the
brain cells.To recognize dementia at the initial stage, you should especially carefully monitor the emotional state of the patient. For example, often this ailment will be expressed initially in increased tearfulness and emotional lability. It is also worth noting that today, dementia has not been recognized for a long time as a problem characteristic exclusively of older people, since it can occur against the background of post-traumatic syndromes or acquired viruses.