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What it is?

 

The dementia is a disease or syndrome that imply a decline of the mental ability, the intelligence, the memory and the behavior, so that is grave enough for realize activities different in the daily live.

The dementia has a great physical impact, psychological, social and economic, what also affect to the carers or family of this people who suffer.

 

Who affect?

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In people: the dementia doesn’t have definitive age, if not that happen to the people that abuse of the alcohol or suffer a ethylic coma.

Unlike of the Alzheimer this usually suffer it the 3º age’s people.

In the human body: usually affect varied function of the brain; as the memory, the thinking, the language and the behaviour.

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Types of dementia

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Cortical Dementia: the cerebral damage principally affect to the cerebral cortex. It tends to cause problems in the memory, the language or the thinking.

Subcortical Dementia: it affect to the parts of brain that they find each other under of the cortex. It cause changes in emotions and movement.

Progresive Dementia: it is the one that gets worse over time. It is the one that most interferes in a greater number of routine skills.

Primary Dementia: is the type that comes closest to Alzheimer's.

Secundary Dementia: it happen how result of a damage or of a physical illness.

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