Short Term Memory Loss Causes

There are many possible short term memory loss causes! But in many cases, the risk of developing memory loss is relatively higher in older people. In other words, the natural progression of our age is one of the most major causes.

You might also like to read about best foods to get smarter and helpful tips to protect your memory, before continuing!

Although short term memory loss is common as we get older, but this progression can be more quickly to develop due to other disorders or external factors!

Memory Loss Causes and Treatments

Memory loss can be so serious if it can affect your daily lives. As you get older, the chance of memory loss will rise. What are memory loss causes? And what you should know for the treatments? Before continuing to read this article, read also a helpful article about ideas to protect your memory!

If you have memory problems (increasingly forgetful) and they interfere with your daily life, you may need to make an appointment with your doctor to get more advices and clearly diagnosis. Don’t wait until your symptoms get worse!

Vascular Dementia Stages and Prognosis

Before talking about vascular dementia stages and prognosis, first let’s clearly understand what actually it is! In older people, it is one of the common major causes (after Alzheimer’s disease) of dementia.

About 15-20 percent of dementia cases are caused by vascular dementia. But unfortunately, there is no exact number of individuals with this certain form of dementia, because it is not easy to diagnose. Many experts believe that it can occur because of a poor supply nutrients & O2 to the part of the brain (not due to break down of the brain’s nerve cells like in the Alzheimer’s disease)!

Early Onset Dementia Symptoms and Diagnosis

A condition when someone experiences the deterioration of mental ability (particularly like decreased judgment, language, & memory) is a general definition of dementia. And talking about early onset dementia, it is usually the term used to represent a range of conditions (deterioration of mental functionalities) that can give effects to memory & thinking in individuals under 65 years of age. Then what are early onset dementia symptoms?

Read also about what are causes of dementia, before continuing!

Generally, as we get older then the risk of acquiring dementia is higher! Deterioration of mental functionality can affect about’ 1 in 14 people over 65 years of age’, which usually will rises steeply become ‘1 in 6 people over 80 years of age’.

Lewy Body Dementia Symptoms and Prognosis

As the name suggests, ‘DLB’ or ‘Dementia Lewy Bodies’ is the familiar term used for a dementia that is caused by lewy bodies in the brain. DLB is a group of disorders!

There is still unknown reason for the presence of leyw bodies in the brain. It is basically normal proteins (small round clumps) in the brain. But without unclearly reason, these clumps become abnormally clumped inside brain cells (neurons). And the new abnormally clumped then will impair the function of the brain cells or even will kill the brain cells.

Causes and Signs of Dementia

As well we know that older people are more likely to have a slightly deprivation of memory which doesn’t significant effects to the daily lives. But as you get older, this problem is getting worse and may give negative effects to your daily lives. If you experience this problem, you should begin to ask to yourself whether you have dementia or not! So, what are causes and signs of dementia?

You might also be interested to know more about vascular dementia stages and prognosis, before continuing!

Dementia is a condition when we get the worse of memory loss (or a loss of mental skills) which can affect to our daily lives. Finally, it can influence significantly on how we to use our memory to think or make a plan. The progress of this disease is different from person to person. Some patients can lose their skills quickly, but others can stay the same for over years.

Protect Your Memory with Simple Ideas

We all are getting older, and along with accepting this condition - the performance of our memory is also getting fall off. Therefore, someday you may often forget to certain things! The memory loss is not only worried by older people, because nowadays it also can attacks at the earlier age of 20. Thankfully, there are also some simple things and helpful ideas to protect your memory in order to keep it sharp!

And the following are some easy steps and ideas on how to improve the performance of your memory and helpful to protect it, and keep it sharp!

Dementia (Untreatable and Treatable)

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Based on the causes, dementia can be divided into two major categories;  untreatable and treatable dementia! As well we know that dementia is more likely to develop in elderly individuals. Therefore, most of cases are dominated by the people or individuals over the age of 65 (It can attack about 8 to 5 percent of older people in their 65s, even about half of people over the age of 80s may have some form of dementia).

Alzheimer’s Stages with the Signs

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What are common signs of each stage of Alzheimer’s? Alzheimer’s is a progressive degradation in cognitive function that decreases the ability and erodes the memory to do a certain task over a period of several years. There are some people have opinion that it is a prompt descent into forgetfulness, but this opinion is wrong!

Read also early warning symptoms of Alzheimer’s, before continuing!

In order to make easier on analyzing the progress of Alzheimer’s and help patient & her/his family for future care, experts design several stages of Alzheimer’s, which each stages have some common typical disease-advances of  symptoms.

Early Symptoms of Alzheimer’s

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Looking for early warning symptoms of Alzheimer’s? First, you have to clearly understand that these signs are not always clear-cut! Even you may be difficult to understand between dementia and Alzheimer’s. Read also about types of Alzheimer's!

Alzheimer’s is a kind of disease, and dementia is a group of signs, which can be loss of thinking, reasoning skills and memory. But Alzheimer’s does not always cause dementia. You may think that memory changes are a normal condition of age-related -- but if the memory problems have interfered with daily life, then it can be a warning sign of Alzheimer’s.

Foods - What Else to Make You Smarter?

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As well we know that the top performance of your brain is so important to support your daily activities and even can be so closely associated with your carrier. Before continuing to read this article, don’t forget to read also the previous article ‘best foods to get smarter part I’! So, what else best foods to make you smarter?

There are a lot of foods to choose from to make the performance of your brain will work better. And the following are some of those choices!

Best 5 Foods to Get Smarter

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There are a lot of ideas to get smarter and one of popular choices is by choosing and eating the right foods? But the big question is ‘What are the best foods to get smarter?” Whatever your choice, those foods should be able to stimulate well the growth of the brain cells and eventually will be useful to improve the memory, function and concentration of the brain. 

We can find a lot of articles and tips that discuss about foods and ideas to promote better performance of our brain (boost brainpower ideas) .

Boost Brainpower with 7 Smart Ways

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Drinking green tea

You can eliminate the experience of psychological distress by drinking green tea regularly for each day. According to The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this is good behavior for 20% less likely to experience distress than if we do not drink green tea regularly.

Why not try to learn another language?

Ellen Bialystok, Ph.D, a researcher of York University (Toronto) says; you can raise the density of gray matter by studying a second language. This is good condition to govern memory and attention of the brain.