Memory

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Memory

Memory is very important in everyone's life. Memory stores the important moments of our lives, useful information that people use throughout their lives. With age memory gets viloated. As a rule, older people remember events happened long ago while the information from short-term memory is erased.

Not always memory problems ae associated with age and diseases, they are often a consequence of fatigue, overload at work, enormous stress, chronic fatigue syndrome. Memory disorders may develop also in serious, severe diseases of the nervous system: brain injury, brain tumors, impaired intellectual ability. These conditions require emergency medical care.

Memory impairment in conjunction with disorders of attention, thinking, ability to plan, make decisions, control one's actions is called dementia, that is a mental deficience.

In case where memory loss is accompanied by melancholy, guilt, fatigue, tearfulness, decreased activity and performance, symptoms of dementia may be imitated by depression.

Memory disorders are classified as follows:

Korsakoff's syndrome - memory problems associated with chronic alcoholism
cortical and subcortiacal dementia
senile memory disorders
dismetabolic encephalopathies
psychogenic memory disorders
transient memory disoders

For the treatment of memory disorders, there is a number of nootropic agents like Piracetam and Cerebrolysin. The highest effect of nootropics is noticed in disorders of memory of subcortical nature. These drugs are prescribed, for example, in chronic cerebral vascular insufficiency, consequences of stroke, traumatic brain injury, asthenic conditions and atypical depression in the elderly.

Pathogenic mechanisms of mental disorders in dementia of Alzheimer's type (cortical dementia, SDAT) can be influenced by drugs with cholinomimetic action, especially acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. Acetylcholinergic therapy has some positive effect on memory and other cognitive abilities in patients with SDAT, reduces the degree of functional limitation. However, the effectiveness of this therapy in SDAT considerably varies among patients.

Also, systematic exercises for memory and attention training can improve cognitive abilities in certain conditions.

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