MEMORY LOSS

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Memory Loss Medical Causes Include:

Mild Cognitive Impairment

Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type

Frontal - Temporal Dementia

Lewy-Body Dementia

Parkinson's Disease and Dementia

Vascular Dementia

Toxic Dementia

Infectious Dementia

Prion Disease

Medical Conditions

Use of SPECT to detect early changes that may lead to DEMENTIA ......

Risk Factors

Closed head injury - concussion

Traumatic Brain Injury or skull fracture

Family History of Dementia

Vascular Disease Risk Factors; hypertension; Diabetes; hypercholesterol

Changes seen on a SPECT SCAN WILL PRECEDE CHANGES SEEN ON MRI

Decreased blood flow to the posterior Cingulate

Decreased blood flow to the medial Temporal Lobes; Amygdala and Hippocampus

Decreased blood flow to the lateral Temporal lobes; language function

Decreased blood flow to the Parietal lobes - language, attention system, visual-spatial memory, skilled motor systems

One in Three will be Affected by Dementia,
Either in Themselves or a Loved One
Jacqueline Marcell