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2. Memory lapses: What’s normal, what’s not - AOL

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   Age-related memory loss can be frustrating and scary. But it doesn’t always mean you’re on the road to dementia. Here’s a look at a few common types of memory lapses, and what to watch out for:

3. Is My Memory Loss Normal...Or An Early Sign Of Alzheimer's? - AOL

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   The earliest warning signs of Alzheimer's disease include memory loss that impacts your daily functioning, vision and language issues, social withdrawal, and more.

4. It’s not just forgetfulness: 8 early warning signs of dementia

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   Disruptive memory loss, including word loss. One of the most common early signs of dementia is short-term memory loss—as is forgetting important dates or events, repeating questions over and ...

5. Memory disorder - Wikipedia

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   The difference in memory between normal aging and a memory disorder is the amount of beta-amyloid deposits, hippocampal neurofibrillary tangles, or amyloid plaques in the cortex. If there is an increased amount, memory connections become blocked, memory functions decrease much more than what is normal for that age and a memory disorder is ...

6. Alzheimer's disease - Wikipedia

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   Alzheimer's disease does not affect all memory capacities equally. Older memories of the person's life (episodic memory), facts learned (semantic memory), and implicit memory (the memory of the body on how to do things, such as using a fork to eat or how to drink from a glass) are affected to a lesser degree than new facts or memories. [42] [43]

7. Memory and aging - Wikipedia

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   Losing working memory has been cited as being the primary reason for a decline in a variety of cognitive tasks due to aging. These tasks include long-term memory, problem solving, decision making, and language. [31] Working memory involves the manipulation of information that is being obtained, and then using this information to complete a task.