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What illnesses can cause memory loss?
Common types of dementia associated with memory loss are:
- Alzheimer disease.
- Lewy body dementia.
- Fronto-temporal dementia.
- Progressive supranuclear palsy.
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus.
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease)
What is the most common age to get dementia?
Dementia is more common in people over the age of 65, but it can also affect younger people. Early onset of the disease can begin when people are in their 30s, 40s, or 50s. With treatment and early diagnosis, you can slow the progression of the disease and maintain mental function.
What are the symptoms of long term memory loss?
The main symptom of long-term memory loss is forgetting things that happened earlier in your life, which may have had some importance or significance for you, such as the name of your high school or where you lived. Other symptoms include: mixing up words, such as calling a table a bed. forgetting common words.
What are the conditions of memory loss?
Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, multiple sclerosis, dementia, and Parkinson’s disease are some of the conditions that could be responsible for memory loss. The onset of such a medical condition might be marked by short-term amnesia, but it could turn into long-term amnesia, as the disease progresses.
What causes rapid memory loss?
Causes of Memory Loss. Many factors can cause memory loss. These factors include: vitamin B-12 deficiency. sleep deprivation. use of alcohol or drugs and some prescription medications. anesthesia from recent surgery. cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, or bone marrow transplant.
What is the treatment for memory loss?
Treatment for short-term memory loss depends on the underlying cause. Some potential treatments include: surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation for brain tumors. medication to treat blood clots or, in some cases, surgery to treat bleeding in your brain. cognitive therapy for such conditions as head injury.