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Essay on Drinking at a Young Age may Result in Alcohol Dementia in Later Years
Dementia’ is a term used medically to describe a syndrome (set of symptoms) that is caused by many different diseases. These include Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies. An analogy is the term ‘cancer’, which is used to describe any malignant tumour but is not itself a specific disease. The answer to the frequently posed question ‘What is the difference between Alzheimer's disease and dementia?’ is that, in a sense, there is no difference—Alzheimer's disease is one of the many different types of dementia. The dementia syndrome is defined as an acquired decline in memory and thinking (cognition) due to brain disease that results in significant impairment of personal, social or occupational function. Other brain functions that are affected include orientation, comprehension, calculating ability, learning capacity, language, judgement, reasoning and information processing. While there are some notable exceptions, dementia is usually of gradual onset and progressive. The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines recommend that these symptoms and impairments be evident for at least six months before a confident diagnosis can be made. While most dementias are currently irreversible, this does not mean that dementia is untreatable. Its progression (course) can often be influenced and many symptoms can be ameliorated. Most dementing illnesses are progressive, and early symptoms and problems differ markedly from those in later stages. This may simply be a matter of degree—for example, mild memory impairment moving to profound memory impairment. Other symptoms and problems usually develop later in the course of the illness, urinary incontinence being one example. While it is customary to describe dementia in stages, there is overlap between stages and it may not always be easy to state precisely which stage a person has reached. The first stage is a ‘pre-dementia’ stage, also named by some researchers ‘mild cognitive impairment’................
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