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Your Friend, Whom You Have Not Heard from in a While

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Your friend, whom you have not heard from in a while, calls and tells you that her grandmother has dementia.She goes on to say that the doctor said that her grandmother doesn't have Alzheimer's disease and added, "I'm not worried.She doesn't have Alzheimer's, just dementia." Explain the inaccuracy of this comment and include information about the progression of the Alzheimer's disease.


Definitions:

Memory Traces

Hypothetical physical changes in the brain that represent the existence of memory.

Amygdala

A region of the brain involved in processing emotions, including fear and pleasure, playing a crucial role in emotional responses and memory.

Maintenance Rehearsal

A cognitive process involving the repetition of information to keep it within short-term memory or to facilitate its transfer to long-term memory.

Mnemonics

Deliberate techniques people use to memorize new materials.

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