A lesson in dementia. Step 1 is understanding that there are different types of dementia. It is an umbrella term that includes different diseases. These are different because they atrophy the brain in different ways.
1 of the most common is Alzheimers. Alzheimers has a global affect on the brain affecting all function across the board. In outcomes that means that a person with Alzheimer's will seem to fade away. The body is there but the personality, the person inside that body, goes away as the disease progresses.
Another type is fronto temporal dementia. This preferentially damages the fronto temporal lobes of the brain. That part of the brain is in a way the highest level of the brain. Executive function and the ability to not act on every impulse lives here. Ever skip the thing that would feel best in that moment to in favor of a long term benefit? Thank your fronto temporal lobe. You may notice this sounds like being drunk, it is. Alcohol also inhibits the fronto temporal lobe. People with this type of dementia don't fade away. They become bigger, louder, bolder versions of their base impulses as the disease progresses.
If this sounds like any American presidents to you I agree. Maybe we shouldn't have presidents that are past the average life span all the time.
Bill Cypher
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