Archive for April 2nd, 2009
If sufferers are living on their own, the time will probably come when it is no longer safe for them to be allowed to continue as they are. There is a limit to the amount of help that can be provided, unless a friend or relative can be present all the time or somebody can [...]
Difficulties with dressing fall into two basic categories. The first involves the selection of the right clothes and the second the ability to put them on properly. Selection of appropriate combinations may be helped by keeping clothes together in sets. This means hanging together the trousers, jackets, pullovers, shirts, etc., that go together. As the [...]
When it becomes apparent that a person’s memory is failing and that he or she is becoming muddled, relatives often feel that a good holiday will sort the situation out. This is rarely a good idea. Not only will routine be disturbed, but the environment will be completely unfamiliar and all sorts of problems can [...]
In recent years there have been many exciting developments in scanning techniques. It is now possible to have all sorts of brain scan and there have been great hopes that this new high-technology approach to studying diseases of the brain might lead to greater diagnostic accuracy. Some of these new techniques, for example the CT [...]
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is probably a collection of different clinical syndromes, or patterns of disease presentation, which have in common the same transmissible causal agent. That is, they may be caused by infection from one individual to another. The infection can even be transmitted by using on one patient neurosurgical instruments that have been earlier [...]