[Video]How to self-check for dementia? Director of Psychiatry: “Very Early Dementia Screening Scale” is the key! – Heho Health

According to a survey conducted by the Taiwan Dementia Association, in Taiwan, 1 in 5 people over the age of 80 suffer from dementia. What exactly is dementia? How can I check myself? Dr. Li Xinqian, Director of the Sleep Center and Psychiatry Department of Peking University, said that in the past experience, some people had mild cognitive impairment, continued in this state, and eventually developed into dementia. Since the brain function is comprehensive, with some scientific research , the testing tool that has been proved to be effective can help us find problems early. Generally, the AD-8 (Very Early Dementia Screening Scale) is commonly used. Through these questions, it can help the public to clarify symptoms, and it can also allow doctors to conduct certain tests. degree of assessment.

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“Very Early Dementia Screening Scale” comprehensively detects brain cognitive problems

Dr. Li Xinqian said that AD-8 is commonly used. These 8 questions are quite comprehensive, covering emotions, motivations, interests, and memory changes. If they can be completed in an appropriate situation, you can know whether you have dementia. risk, but Dr. Li Xinqian reminded that the screening questionnaire may have sensitivity issues. In some special cases of dementia, AD-8 may not appear, but clinical evaluation shows dementia, or vice versa, some people are too sensitive. Pay attention to certain symptoms, fill in the score very high, and it turns out that there is no sign of dementia at all, but we will suggest that when the assessment has a certain score, you can seek further confirmation from the doctor.

As for suffering from dementia, is there really no way to reverse it? Dr. Li Xinqian said that generally speaking, dementia is a general term, including many neurodegenerative diseases, and is generally divided into reversible or irreversible dementia. If it is reversible dementia, as long as the cause is corrected , the brain can generally be restored, and dementia will heal without medicine. In addition, there are some cases of external factors, which may be dementia caused by excessive drinking or taking medicine.

As for primary dementia, it is mainly related to cerebrovascular diseases. For example, stroke patients, or some people have latent or hidden strokes, which may also cause damage to the brain and nervous system. The other is Alzheimer’s disease, of course. There are still some very detailed principles to assess whether you are suffering from the disease, but at present, medicine continues to advance. Even for Alzheimer’s disease, there are now drugs that can delay the course of the disease, and there may be reversible drugs on the market in the future.

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