n the group of neurodegenerative diseases, memory loss is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a serious health crisis of the 21st century. Dementia is not just a human disease. old but younger and younger. Currently about 20-30% of young people have memory problems.
I. Symptoms
Forgetting to cover the gas tank when refueling, sending an email when not attaching files, not remembering whether to lock the door at work or not, forgetting to buy things at the market… are common symptoms of memory loss.
Dementia, forgetfulness, lack of concentration, and reduced thinking and cognitive abilities are not only encountered in the elderly, but also affect the lives and work of many young people.
Therefore, you should not underestimate the above symptoms. All signs such as forgetfulness, forgetfulness reflect deteriorating memory conditions.
II. Common causes and subjects
It can be said that memory impairment can be encountered in all subjects from office workers to pupils and students. So what is the cause of memory loss?
1. Neurodegeneration after age 25
The brain has about 100 billion nerve cells and are linked together by 1,000 billion synapses. From the age of 25 onwards, nerve cells begin to degenerate and lose about 3,000 of these vital cells each day.
2. Stress - stress at work in the office world
Besides the cause of age-related degeneration, there are a number of factors that also contribute to impaired memory.
Up to now, free radicals have been studied and recognized by scientists as the "enemy" of memory. The nature of work in the office world often tends to cause more free radicals due to sedentary habits, work stress, diet is not scientifically concerned ... Therefore, it is easy to understand at why the office world suffered from very early memory loss.
3. Pressure in students' homework - students
The brain and the organs in the body have to "work" at full capacity and the protracted stress and anxiety of the death cause numerous free radicals (Free Radical). They attack nerve cells, damaging the very tight structure of the neural cell network. Since then, the nerve cells gradually degenerate, causing brain function to seriously decline, affecting the memory area, making learning and thinking ability stagnant.
4. Other factors
Some other factors contributing to memory loss include nutrition, environmental pollution, dust, sunlight, tobacco, alcohol injury, infection, radioactive contamination ...
III. Consequences of memory impairment
1. Declining work and study efficiency
Memory impairment clearly affects efficiency and quality of work by reducing the ability to think, focus and handle poor work. Amnesia often leads to many unnecessary mistakes. In particular, some errors can seriously affect lives and property.
In students - students, the pressure of homework, especially in exam seasons, makes the mind less able to memorize and absorb, affect learning results.
2. Dementia
About 50% of people with dementia will turn into dementia after 3 years with symptoms such as memory loss, language disorder, movement disorder, the ability to recognize objects ...
The disease progresses and the patient loses the ability to think and take care of himself, eventually leading to death. Not only seriously affecting the quality of life of the patient, dementia also affects the family and the whole society.
3. Cerebral atrophy, white matter damage, blood vessel injury ...
The process of memory impairment develops into dementia, causing serious and difficult to recover damage such as brain atrophy, white matter damage, vascular injury, ventricular dilatation in brain MRI.
4. Alzheimer's
According to health experts, about 10% of dementia cases will turn into Alzheimer's under the influence of Amyloid Beta - a protein causing Alzheimer's disease is abundant in people with dementia.
Alzheimer's is the most typical form of dementia (accounting for 70-80% of cases). On average, people with Alzheimer's die after 8-10 years. So far, there is no complete cure for Alzheimer's disease, which can only slow the progression of the disease.
5. Parkinson
In the early stage, patients often experience fatigue, impaired cognition, disorder of writing ...
This is due to the degeneration of nerve cells in the black matter, reducing the production of transmitters and affecting the regulation of the body, causing typical symptoms such as tremor, muscle stiffness, slowdown. dizziness and posture disorders.
IV. Treatment - Remedy
Improving memory loss includes many aspects such as: improving physical causes, correcting psychological problems, altering biological lifestyle, nutrition, and eliminating risk factors. In particular, the elimination of risk factors is of great importance for progressive disease control and of great preventive significance.