Alzheimer’s disease, a nerve degenerative condition that affects millions of people all over the world, suffers from its main symptoms of memory loss of modern facts. node CNN is vital signs This is Saturday (3), neuroscientists, Sonia Brookly and Jerusa Smid, of the Das Clinicas Hospital of the University of Sao Paulo University, explained the initial signs of the disease and how to identify it.
According to experts, the most distinctive Alzheimer’s symptoms are the difficulty of creating new memories. “The main symptoms are memory loss of modern facts, that is, the loss of the new learning capacity,” the experts explained.
Doctors have indicated that although old memories are still intact, modern events become difficult to remember. For example, a person who has been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease may remember the events for ten years, but we forget what they did in the previous week, as it was or what was eating lunch the day before.
The role of hippocampus in Alzheimer’s disease
Neuroscientists explained that this difficulty is linked to a specific area of the brain: “New information depends on an area of the brain that we call the hippocampus. This area is initially affected in most cases of Alzheimer’s disease.”
An important aspect highlighted by experts is the malignant character of the disease. Symptoms can start skillfully, and often pass without anyone noticing them by the individual himself, the family and friends. “He begins with a loss, and the person complains that he does not work, and the head no longer works as it was before, then small lapses occur, these lapses are increasing,” they explained.
Doctors stressed the importance of self -evaluation in identifying early symptoms. “What is interesting is that the person is always compared to what it was before. How my work was, what I was able to, and now what is happening to me,” they advised. This comparison can be decisive to realize major changes and search for proper medical help.
S. Early Alzheimer’s diagnosis It is essential to managing appropriate diseases and providing a better quality of life for patients. Therefore, realizing signs and searching for medical help when referring to continuous changes in memory and cognitive performance is necessary for more effective treatment.
