Symptoms of Dementia: Signs and Symptom Of This Brain Disorder

What are the signs and symptoms of dementia? What should you know about this?

SYMPTOMS OF DEMENTIA – These are the signs and symptoms you must look after to if you are suspecting a person to having a dementia.

The loss of thinking ability, memory, and other mental abilities falls under the broad term dementia. This happens when your brain function for learning, memory, decision making, and language declines or gets damaged. Dementia is not a disease but a collection of symptoms that may occur due to underlying possible diseases or medical conditions damaging the brain.

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Symptoms of Dementia — Photo lifted from DNA India

Age, heart disease, tobacco use, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression, head accidents, stroke, poor sleep, and many others are considered causes of dementia.

The early signs of dementia are vague and not immediately obvious and may vary depending on the part of brain that is damaged.

Check out some signs and symptoms below:

Cognitive changes
- Memory loss
- Difficulty communicating and language problems
- Disorientation such as losing direction to places he or she used to go to
- Abstract thinking problem
- Difficulty to handle complex tasks
- Problems in coordination and motor skills
- Confusion

Psychological changes
- Personality changes
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Inappropriate behavior
- Paranoia
- Agitation
- Hallucinations

There are certain risk factors that may contribute to this such as age, family history, and down syndrome that cannot be changed. However, there are those that you can actually change or have control over such as diet and exercise, alcohol use, cardiovascular conditions, depression, diabetes, smoking, sleep apnea, and deficiencies in vitamins and other nutrition.

By managing the abovementioned risk factor, you may likely prevent the development of dementia. Get a night of quality sleep, eat healthily, be active mentally and physically, manage cardiovascular risk factors, and treat medical conditions as per an article from Mayo Clinic.