Memory Defects: Causes & Reasons

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Possible Causes for Memory Defects

Pick Disease of The Brain

Disturbances in personality, behavior and orientation may precede and initially be more severe than memory defects. [health.uconn.edu]

Vitamin B12 Deficiency

insomnia, memory loss, paranoia, vitiligo ( skin discoloration), or weakness. [duqoboyuhac.tk]

Vitamin B12 deficiency predisposes to neural tube defects (such as spina bifida, anencephaly, and encephalocele) in the fetus. [patient.info]

Symptoms of deficiency include diarrhea, and stomach and intestinal ulcers, anemia, anorexia, birth defects ( spinal bifida, cleft palate, or cleft lip), slow growth, headaches [duqoboyuhac.tk]

Alcohol Dementia

Not all people in nursing homes have memory defects. Many are just physically handicapped, wheelchair bound, and unable to manage on their own. [healthboards.com]

Hypothyroidism

Complications If untreated, the disease may progress to infertility, heart defects, impaired memory and depression. [symptoma.com]

memory and executive functioning were noted in individuals with SCH [70], [71] and these defects were corrected with T4 therapy. [dx.doi.org]

Evidence for a specific defect in hippocampal memory in overt and subclinical hypothyroidism. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

and headache. [8] Decline in grey matter volume due to decrease in physical activity. [8] [1] Volume changes and problems in the integrity of white matter. [8] [1] Defective [physio-pedia.com]

[…] better treat the illness. [5] Systemic Involvement Neurological Symptoms reported by chronic fatigue syndrome patients-including fatigue; impaired concentration, attention, memory [physio-pedia.com]

Beriberi

These patients may concoct very plausible stories about what they themselves (not other people) have been doing, to cover their memory defect and do not admit to any loss [web.archive.org]

Most of the patients who recovered from the acute confusional state subsequently developed some memory defect. [biologydiscussion.com]

[…] of memory (called confabulation). [web.archive.org]

Epilepsy

Problems after surgery can be mild to severe-such as less energy, visual defects, language and memory problems, and weakness or partial paralysis on one side of the body-and [northshore.org]

memory deficits (involvement of temporal lobe) hemineglect (involvement of parietal lobe) disorganized thinking, confusion, hypersexual gestures (with involvement of frontal [en.wikipedia.org]

Broca's or Wernicke's area typically involved) dysarthria (motor speech disorder resulting from neurological injury) apraxia (altered voluntary movements) visual field defect [en.wikipedia.org]

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Once again, the health risks of being interrupted during this method are serious, and can include memory defects and Parkinsonism, as well as dementia, psychosis, paralysis [lostallhope.com]

Neurofibromatosis

Neurofibromatosis type I (NFI) is a common genetic disorder that causes nervous system tumors, and learning and memory defects in humans, and animal models. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Lyme Disease

such as impaired memory Heart rhythm irregularities Prevention The best way to prevent Lyme disease is to avoid areas where deer ticks live, especially wooded, bushy areas [mayoclinic.org]

These symptoms can include muscle and joint pains, cognitive defects, sleep disturbance, or fatigue. [bccdc.ca]

Untreated Lyme disease can cause: Chronic joint inflammation (Lyme arthritis), particularly of the knee Neurological symptoms, such as facial palsy and neuropathy Cognitive defects [mayoclinic.org]

Sjögren Syndrome

To focus more specifically on the cognitive defects that have been attributed to pSjS, one group administered a variety of tests and found that patients performed significantly [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

[…] administered the Batterie Courte d’évaluation cognitive destinée aux patients souffrant de Sclérose En Plaques (BCcogSEP) and demonstrated cognitive slowing, short- and long-term memory [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Limbic Encephalitis

There were also disorders of the working memory (backward digit span) and executive functions with an inhibition defect in the go/no go test (error rate of 4 of 40) and defective [jamanetwork.com]

Food Poisoning

In October 1988, food poisoning due to the freshwater puffer Tetraodon fangi occurred. Six out of eight people who consumed spicy soup (Tom Yam) of puffer developed clinical signs of tetrodotoxin intoxication. The incubation period varied from 30 min to 3 hr and there were no deaths. Puffers were collected one[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Brain Concussion

A brain concussion is a still incompletely defined syndrome of traumatic brain injury (TBI) that causes a spectrum of symptoms without evident structural damage to the brain. A headache, cognitive deficits, emotional instability, sleep disturbances, and an overall change in mental state after trauma are highly[…] [symptoma.com]

Traumatic Brain Injury

Objective: To explore the relationship between three QEEG global indexes and their association with functional outcome after neurorehabilitation in non-acute acquired brain injury (ABI) patients (traumatic brain injury and stroke). Methods: Twenty-one adult ABI patients in post-acute phase were studied. Delta-alpha[…] [pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Sleep Apnea

Major Signs and Symptoms One of the most common signs of obstructive sleep apnea is loud and chronic (ongoing) snoring. Pauses may occur in the snoring. Choking or gasping may follow the pauses. The snoring usually is loudest when you sleep on your back; it might be less noisy when you turn on your side. You[…] [web.archive.org]

Preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is defined by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) as "the occurrence of new onset hypertension plus new-onset proteinuria" [1]. Up-to-Date elaborates a little further on this by defining preeclampsia as "the new onset of hypertension and proteinuria, or hypertension and[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Fibromyalgia

Ronald Friend 1, 2, Kim D Jones 1, Rachel Ward 1, Bobby K Han 3 and Rebecca L Ross 1 Arthritis Research & Therapy 2009 11 :R120 https://doi.org/10.1186/ar2783 © Bennett et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009 Received: 3 June 2009 Accepted: 10 August 2009 Published: 10 August 2009 Abstract Introduction The[…] [doi.org]

Transient Ischemic Attack

Transient ischemic attack Other names Mini-strokes Specialty Neurology, Vascular surgery Prognosis Survival rate ~ 91% (To hospital discharge) 62.2% (five years) [1] A transient ischemic attack (TIA) is a brief episode of neurological dysfunction caused by loss of blood flow (ischemia) in the brain, spinal cord, or[…] [en.wikipedia.org]

Parkinson Disease

Parkinson's disease is a form of neurological disorder characterized by gradual loss of those neurological functions that governs body movement. The disease is therefore also referred to as movement disorder. In the early stages of the disease, signs and symptoms are pretty less evident. However, as the disease[…] [symptoma.com]

Migraine without Aura

Abstract Because serotonin, released from platelets, has been suggested to initiate migraine, a decreased platelet serotonin content, attained by a reduced intake of serotonin and the serotonin precursor tryptophan, might be beneficial. In the brain, however, increased serotonin levels, achieved by a high[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Brain Neoplasm

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) using the Gamma Knife (GK) is now being increasingly utilized for the treatment of brain metastases. However, there are a few reported cases of SRS-induced brain neoplasms. We herein report the case of a Japanese woman with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence

To describe the successful surgical treatment of 5 cases of superior semicircular canal dehiscence via a transmastoid middle fossa craniotomy using a soft tissue graft. Case report. Private practice otologic referral center. All patients have experienced reduction in auditory and vestibular symptoms. Pulsatile[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Sleep Disorders

Parasomnias Parasomnias are disorders characterized by abnormal behavioral or physiological events occurring in association with sleep, specific sleep stages, or sleep-wake transitions. Unlike dyssomnias, parasomnias do not involve abnormalities of the mechanisms generating sleep-wake states, nor of the timing of[…] [sleep.health.am]

Hypothermia

Deep hypothermia for the operative correction of congenital cardiac lesions protects hypoperfused organs, mostly because of its effect on lowering metabolic demand and oxygen requirement. Deleterious cerebral and extracranial side effects of deep hypothermia itself calls for a reexamination of the therapeutic[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

[…] by, Last updated May 24, 2016 Reviewed and revised 8 July 2014 OVERVIEW Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis is an under-recognised progressive neurological disorder caused by antibodies against NR1-NR2 NMDA receptors 60% of patients with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis have the presence of a tumour (most commonly[…] [lifeinthefastlane.com]

Legionnaires' Disease

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Feb 20;115(8):E1730-E1739. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718679115. Epub 2018 Feb 5. Author information 1 Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. 2 Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, Fort Collins, CO 80523. 3 Department of Civil &[…] [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

Measles

Article Navigation 1 From the 1 Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, 2 Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, 3 Royal Liverpool University and Broadgreen NHS Trust, 4 NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections[…] [doi.org]

Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy ( PML ) is a rare and often fatal viral disease characterized by progressive damage ( -pathy ) or inflammation of the white matter ( leuko- ) of the brain ( -encephalo- ) at multiple locations ( multifocal ). It is caused by the JC virus, which is normally present and kept[…] [en.wikipedia.org]

Paraneoplastic Neurologic Syndrome

From Wikidata Jump to navigation Jump to search paraneoplastic syndrome that involves the nervous system Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration PCD PNS nervous system paraneoplastic syndrome edit English paraneoplastic neurologic syndrome paraneoplastic syndrome that involves the nervous system Paraneoplastic[…] [wikidata.org]