Tag: Alzheimers Disease
Alzheimer’s disease or benign memory loss: how to tell the difference? : Current Woman Le MAG
One day you don’t remember where you put your keys. The next day, you mix up your children’s names. Could your memory loss be a sign of the beginnings ofAlzheimer’s…
What are the different types of dementia and how to recognize them? : Current Woman The MAG
“We no longer use the term dementia, which has a negative connotation. We are talking about cognitive disorders mild, moderate or major”, recalls in the preamble Dr Camille Heitz, neurologist.…
A loss of visual sensitivity could make it possible to detect dementia 12 years before diagnosis: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
Difficulty concentrating, making oneself understood, mood swings… Many symptoms can lead to the diagnosis of dementia, a term which “covers several diseases that affect memory, thinking and the ability to…
Cognitive disorders: definition, symptoms, treatments: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
Rather than talking about dementia, a term that is too stigmatizing, today we prefer to talk about neurocognitive disorders. The latter designate an acquired reduction in one or more cognitive…
Essential tremors and Parkinson’s disease: how to tell the difference? : Current Woman Le MAG
In France, approximately 300,000 people are affected by essential tremors, including 30,000 with a severe, even disabling form. “Essential tremor is a disease whose only symptom is a tremor of…
Frontotemporal dementia: symptoms, diagnosis and treatments: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
Representing nearly 20% of degenerative dementias, frontotemporal dementia is one of the neurodegenerative pathologies related to Alzheimer’s disease. Essentially characterized by a progressive impairment of cognitive faculties, this form of…
Dementia: 3 habits to adopt to reduce the risks, according to a geriatrician: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
If age is the main risk factor for dementia, other variables can also increase the risk: depression, social isolation, high blood pressure, heavy alcohol consumption, being overweight or smoking. According…
Alzheimer’s: this sign could predict the onset of the disease years before the first symptoms, according to a study: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
In France, 900,000 people are affected by Alzheimer’s disease, according to the Pasteur Institute, and this figure is likely to increase significantly in the coming years with the aging of…
Alzheimer’s disease: treatments for erectile dysfunction could reduce the risk, according to a study: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
There Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a slow and irreversible degeneration of neurons in the brain, which leads to problems with memory, the performance of daily tasks,…
Brain health: here are the changes that take place in the brain after 50, according to experts: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
“It is clearly established that there is an inverse association between age and cognitive performance” according to Inserm. Indeed, from the age of fifty, the brain begins to lose its…
Dementia: 3 habits to adopt on a daily basis to reduce the risks, according to a geriatrician: Femme Actuelle Le MAG
The term dementia includes a wide range of symptoms associated with a decline in memory or other cognitive skills, which can prevent people who suffer from it from carrying out…
Signs of old age or dementia, how to tell the difference? : Current Woman Le MAG
“In normal aging, a change in memory is described. The reduction in cognitive reserve means that our functioning becomes a little less efficient, but without this being a problem in…