Short Lesson On Dementias
Hey team, Recently been reading and learning from Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology 5th edition, which I excitingly received for Christmas. So far in my learning I've mostly focused on affective disorders like depression but I decided to dive into learning about dementia as it seems to be a popular topic that I am not too informed on. Dementia is a progressive neurologic/ psychiatric disorder that arrises in later life. Its signature symptoms are significant cognitive problems such as poor memory, poor problem solving, communication issues and often behavioral and psychotic symptoms which seem to be the hardest on the people surrounding the person with dementia. Of course, as we age in our later years things do slow down and we're not where we might of been in our youth, however dementia involves incredible and rapid slowing down of brain capacity/ function which is almost always debilitating and is by all means a disorder (cluster of symptoms that impair quality of lif...