Even when the medicine is working, your child might still struggle with forgetfulness, emotional problems, and social awkwardness, or you might find yourself dealing with disorganization, distractibility, and relationship difficulties. It is important to know, though, that ADHD medications are not the only treatment option. There is now a consensus among experts that regular exercise is one of ...

As the population ages, Alzheimer disease is becoming more of a medical, social and public health concern. It is a dementing disorder that causes severe and permanent loss of intellectual function. Patients with Alzheimer disease begin having forgetfulness, then progress to having irreversible loss of memory (including the memory of their own families) and other previously well-learned skills. ...

A 58 year old male presented with a 14 day history of progressive forgetfulness and aggressiveness. He had a history of human immunodeficiency virus infection, ischemic cardiomyopathy, and a myxomatous mitral valve (status post Saint Jude's mitral valve replacement 8 years before presentation). International normalized ratio was supra-therapeatutic on admission. A non-contrast computed tomograp...

The disease that bears the name of Aloysius Alzheimer was first described in Munich, 1906. Prior to this discovery by Dr. Alzheimer, the loss of memory, forgetfulness, and the decline in mental acuity and competence were ascribed to old age. Since that time, the clinical symptoms and the changes that occur in the brain are known as a neurological disease and not the inevitable decline of the ag...

This little book contains some very interesting' and carefully written articles on questions not often placed before the public in a comprehensive way. The author has divided his subject into Thoughtland, Dreamland, Cloudland, the Land of Forgetfulness, Spiritland, Will, Self, Work, Rest, and the Burden of Life. Concerning Thoughtland we are told: "To a few Thoughtland is elysium; to many ' it ...

• Older groups have a striking impairment in prospective memory – that is, remembering to carry out an action without being reminded. Around twothirds of participants aged 75 and older forgot to perform an action that they had earlier been instructed to carry out. If the findings are indicative of forgetfulness in daily life, then they raise concerns about the health and safety of older people,...

Gathered from observations and studies of how people busily manage tasks amidst distractions, forgetfulness, and multitasking in their homes, we identify two common cooking predicaments. We introduce Cook’s Collage, a context-aware system that passively displays recent activities. We posit that a cook, by glancing at these visual cues, can easily resume his task following an interruption when h...

A 65-year-old woman presented to our emergency department complaining of recent headache. Her past medical history was a severe resistant depression, with delusions of persecution and feelings of guilt. She was treated with several antidepressants for four years without much benefit. Afterwards, she became poor at ordinary conversation with her family and complained of forgetfulness and difficu...

• General fatigue, exhaustion, apathy, lethargy and sleep disturbances • Central Nervous System headache, lightheadedness, fainting, forgetfulness, • Impaired memory, difficulty concentrating, confusion, irritability • Musculoskeletal pain in joints, neck and low back and muscle tenderness • Face and Pharynx sore throat, dry mouth, difficulty swallowing, atypical pain • Dermatologic – itching, ...