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Article: Ask the herbalist; "treating memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer's disease".
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Dementia
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Dementia is a decline in mental functioning, in which memory, thinking, judgement and the ability to concentrate are impaired. There also may be a change in personality. Dementia can develop suddenly when a severe injury, disease, or toxin destroys brain cells, or it can develop slowly, especially in senior citizens. Most commonly, short term memory loss and the reduction in learning ability is a response to atherosclerosis in seniors. This is not dementia. Dementia is a more serious decline in mental ability. For example, people with atherosclerosis may have an inability to recall detail from an event whereas individuals ...