Alzheimer's Disease: Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and the disease most people associate with memory loss.
Alcohol abuse and alcoholism can worsen existing conditions such as depression or induce new problems such as serious memory loss, depression, or anxiety.
Because caffeine is a psychostimulant, older women who drink 3 or more cups of coffee or tea a day have less memory loss and cognitive decline than their counterparts who drink less or none.
The treatment could one day help people who suffer from memory loss due to dementia, stroke or brain injury.
That would not be new, but what surprised us was the linkage between mild to moderate memory loss and oral disease.
Excess sugar is known to cause claustrophobia, memory loss and other neurotic disorders.
One hypothesis that would link oral disease and memory loss relies on new evidence about how tissue inflammation affects the brain.
To find out whether the memory loss was permanent, researchers gave the mice a drug that, in effect, reduced the amount of the enzyme to normal levels.
Nerve cells containing the prions stop working. The sufferer endures memory loss, personality changes and spontaneous, jerky bodily movements.
The research showed that large doses of the supplement could halve the rate of brain shrinkage – a physical symptom associated memory loss and dementia in the elderly.
In its initial stages, that's true - memory loss is an early hallmark of dementia.
Consumed over the long term it might produce fatigue, memory loss, headaches, irritability, and dizziness.
