repeatedly disrupt normal responsibilities or independence.
What Makes Recent Memory Important?
The hippocampus and related brain structures play important roles in forming and organizing new memories. Alzheimer’s disease can affect these memory systems relatively early in its course.
This helps explain why someone may clearly remember an event from decades ago while repeatedly forgetting a conversation from earlier that morning.
However, this pattern is not unique to Alzheimer’s disease, and memory symptoms alone cannot establish a diagnosis.
- Increasing Difficulty Finding or Using Words
Everyone occasionally experiences the frustrating feeling of having a word “on the tip of the tongue.” This
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