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Dementia is an acquired and often progressive cognitive decline. According to a 2008 talk by New York neurologist, Dr. Norman Pflaster, at least three areas of functioning are affected including memory, language, visual/spacial skills, ability to perform previously learned acts, right-left discrimination, judgment abstraction, and thought content. The most common cause of dementia is Alzheimer’s …
Dear Family, Thank you for all that you do for me. I hope this little note will help you understand me a bit better. Please don’t treat me as if I were defective, weak, or “crazy” because of my Panic Disorder. I judge myself this way all the time, and it makes me feel awful. …
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Panic Disorder is hereditary, though studies of identical twins show that not everyone who inherits a predisposition for it will go on to develop symptoms. This means that heredity is not the only cause of the disorder. Childhood Circumstances and Parenting Styles can Contribute Certain childhood circumstances are usually present in people who eventually develop …
Is there something you are continually drawn to; something you have always wanted to do, but haven’t had the nerve? Maybe you thought you shouldn’t change careers and follow your lifelong desire to be a history teacher, because you didn’t know if you’d be any good at it. Maybe you thought you weren’t really talented …
Sometimes a family member/caregiver does not know what to expect from day-to-day or minute to minute when managing a loved one with dementia. Here are some tips for handling delusions and the dementia patient from a recent talk by New York neurologist Dr. Norman Pflaster. What are Delusions? People with dementia may suffer from delusions, …
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Doctors and therapists who do not specialize in panic treatment and who don’t properly explain the causes of troubling symptoms, often do not earn enough credibility to convince their Panic Disorder patients that they are not “going crazy” or dying. Feelings of dying and going crazy are symptoms, not outcomes of panic attacks. But the …
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