It is a very important question :)
Amnesia is a symptom, that can occur in many different situations, i.e. after an epileptic seizures or brain trauma. One can forget what has happend after car accident due to commotio cerebri. Amnesia in dementia is a symptom which reffers to a progressive changes in memory. If you could give en example we could give you some more precise explanation.
To add onto Dr. Chwiszczuk's response, dementia is a family of disorders that affects memory, but much more. It is typically highly disabling, progressive, and fatal. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer's disease and "amnesia" (loss of one's memory) is one symptom. People with dementia also display other symptoms related to this progressive neurological disease include aphasia (loss of the ability to speak and understand speech), apraxia (loss of motor functioning), agnosia (inability to recognize things and people) and as you note, amnesia. Also, people will sometimes display changes in personality. The Alzheimer's association calls these the "four A's of dementia". There are other forms of dementia that are caused by myriad issues including HIV, prion diseases (aka "mad cow disease"), frontotemporal dementia, mini-strokes (TIA's), Parkinson's Disease and Lewy Body Disease. Alzheimer's disease is still (by far) the most common. What they share is some kind of neurological pathology that leads to loss of brain function (including memory) that is typically progressive.
Amnesia is a symptom that can present itself as part of dementia but does not have to be a result of that. The causes of amnesia are many and beyond my training as I am a social worker. For instance, people who receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can exhibit memory loss, or some can have a concussion and lose memory. People can even display dissociative amnesia in which they lose memory and even forget who they are, due to psychological reasons. There is a rare syndrome called a psychogenic fugue where a person travels from their home and forgets who they are.
Simply put, amnesia is loss of memory, but dementia is a much more global loss of brain functioning.
Hello Hazim,
‘Amnesia’ comes from Greek word and directly translates as ‘forgetfulness’. It refers to a disturbance in the memory of information stored in long- term memory, and is characterized by partial or total inability to recall past experiences.
‘Dementia’ (or amentia) comes from Latin ‘de-‘ =negative ( or ’a’=from) and ’mens’=mind. It refers to general mental deterioration due to a variety of causes, and is characterized by disorientation, impaired memory, disorientation, and intellect.
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Tatyana
Amnesia is a form of memory loss. Some people with amnesia have difficulty forming new memories. Others can't recall facts or past experiences. People with amnesia usually retain knowledge of their own identity, as well as motor skills.
Amnesia caused by brain injury or damage is known as neurological amnesia. Possible causes of neurological amnesia include: Stroke. ... Degenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Some of the causes of temporary amnesia include concussion, severe illness and high fever, emotional stress, some drugs and electroconvulsive therapy.
The both are only syndromas, not illnesses, with different etiology.
Dr Alzheimer and Prof. Kraepellin never speak about "Alzheimers disease", than about the patient of Dr Alzheimer! It was presenile dementia syndroma, but the patient Augusta D. had atypical psychotic disorder and died from sepsis!
Amnesia is a memory loss that involves the inability to recall information while dementia on the other hand side is a mental condition in which daily activities are impaired.
https://www.quora.com/How-is-amnesia-different-from-dementia
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Dementia and Alzheimer's are not the same, but dementia is the most comprehensive term, a set of symptoms that affect memory, performance of daily activities, and ability to communicate, while Alzheimer's is a form of dementia, and worsens over time and affects memory, language, and thinking.
What are your clniical or laboratory or neuroimage arguments for diagnosis of so called "Alzheimer disease"?
Although memory decline or memory impairment is a core symptom of dementia, simple memory decline accompanied by no other cognitive impairments is called amnesia, which should be distinguished from dementia. Memory impairment accompanied by disturbance of higher cerebral functions and performance is diagnosed as dementia. Amnesia can be observed even in normal elderly people, which is called benign senescent amnesia. Benign senescent amnesia should be differentiated from Alzheimer’s disease in its early stage. A patient with benign senescent amnesia loses only a part of episodic memory to an insignificant degree, and has the ability of orientation, judgement, and abstract thinking. A patient with Alzheimer’s disease also has a memory impairment. In this case, however, it is usually accompanied by disorientation, especially temporal disorientation, and often by delusions of having things stolen even in its early stage. It is also difficult for a patient with Alzheimer’s disease to reproduce a 3-dimensional drawing even if drawing a 2-dimensional reproduction is possible. This provides a means to review the differentiation between benign senescent amnesia and Alzheimer’s disease in its early stage.
Hirai, S. (2001). Distinction between Dementia and Memory Decline. Japan Medical Association Journal, 44(6), 274-278.
Abstract: Although memory decline or memory impairment is a core symptom of dementia, simple memory decline accompanied by no other cognitive impairments is called amnesia, which should be distinguished from dementia. ... A patient with Alzheimer's disease also has a memory impairment
فقدان الذاكرة هو فقدان المعلومات التفصيلية اما المسلمات فتظل قائمة كمعرفة ان السرقة حرام والقتل حرام ومساعدة الناس تعد امر طيب .اما الخرف فهو فقدان كل معاني الأشياء وعدم التمييز وعدم التسليم باي ثوابت .
Loss of memory is the loss of detailed information either Muslim women continue to exist as knowledge that theft is haraam and murder is haraam, but helping people is good. Dementia is the loss of all meanings of things and non-discrimination and non-delivery of any constants
Dr Alois Alzheimer never described the s.c. " Alzheimer's disease"! He described only once patient Augusta D. with atypical (symptomatic) psychosis. She was Dr Alzheimer's patient!
Although Amnesia is memory loss (forgetfulness), it isn't the same as dementia. because Dementia often includes memory loss, and it also involves other significant cognitive problems that lead to a decline in daily functioning.
Dementia is more general and comprehensive than amnesia , because amnesia is a symptom of dementia
Although memory decline or memory impairment is a core symptom of dementia, simple memory decline accompanied by no other cognitive impairments is called amnesia, which should be distinguished from dementia. ... Amnesia can be observed even in normal elderly people, which is called benign senescent amnesia.
Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia. Alzheimer's disease gets worse with time and affects memory, language, and thought. While younger people can develop dementia or Alzheimer's disease, your risk increases as you age. Still, neither is considered a normal part of aging.
memory decline or memory impairment is a core symptom of dementia, simple memory decline accompanied by no other cognitive impairments is called amnesia, which should be distinguished from dementia. ... Amnesia can be observed even in normal elderly people, which is called benign senescent amnesia
Amnesia is a short term memoery loss while declining in memory or other thinking skills.
Dr Kamath Madhusudhana
Beneficial discussion .please read this article http://www.differencebetween.net/science/health/difference-between-dementia-and-amnesia/
a partial or total loss of memory.
"He was suffering from total amnesia and dementia praecox and was duly incarcerated in an asylum in Rodez in central France."
Amnesia is an initial stage of Dementia but can occur as a result of emotional or social trauma due to the inability of the mind to grasp the situation for a friend. Dementia often occurs at the end of life at old age.
- Dementia is not a disease but a series of symptoms that leads to serious mental diseases. Amnesia on the other hand, is a serious mental condition affecting a person’s memory.
- Symptoms of dementia could affect a person’s memory. But it generally affects a person’s decision making. Amnesia on the other hand is a serious form of memory loss, but it does not generally affect the patient’s decision making.
- Dementia is treatable, but it depends on the cause of the disorder. Amnesia is treatable in so many different ways, whatever the cause of the condition is.
- Amnesia is not a symptom. It could be forced, like childhood amnesia. Dementia, on the other hand, is purely the effect of so many factors.
Amnesia is associated with parts of brain damage which is essential for processing memories... Patients with amnesia have difficulties with forming new memories (Anterograde) and remembering the older ones (Retrograde)... Their other Cognitive abilities doesn't get affected like judgement, processing, attention, identify or personality etc....
On the other hand, patients with dementia faced memory loss along with their decline in their other Cognitive abilities, daily functioning, processing, decision making, self initiated activities etc...
Amnesia is more psychological dysfunction and comparable less severe issue than dementia whic is related to the biological or neuropsychological problem of brain
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