Memory and Cognition Center
Memory and Cognition Center
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The Memory and Cognition Center has a 20-year track record of providing exemplary care for those affected with disorders of memory and cognition (mental processes).The internationally known specialists here have the interdisciplinary expertise to handle the medical aspects of memory and cognitive disorders, as well as to be genuinely helpful and supportive with the emotional and family issues that are often a part of these diseases.
Center staff are extraordinarily devoted to the care of each patient as a whole person in the midst of a disease process that can be very difficult for him or her as well as to family members. |
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Because Center staff work closely with the Neurology Department at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and have access to research sponsored the National Institutes of Health as well as the pharmaceutical industry and physicians around the world, we are able to provide state-of-the-art care for virtually any disorder that involves memory and cognition.
Among the diagnoses of our patients are: |
Alzheimer’s disease
The most common cause of dementia in people over age 65- Sign up for the Alzheimer’s Disease Information Network e-newsletter to learn the latest on research and upcoming clinical research studies relating to Alzheimer’s Disease.
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Other dementias
This is a general term that describes a group of symptoms such as loss of memory, judgment, language, motor skills and intellectual function; caused by damage or death of brain neurons |
Vascular dementia
May result from blocked arteries that supply blood to the brain or from a stroke that interrupts the brain’s blood flow; symptoms are similar to Alzheimer’s |
| Frontotemporal dementia |
| Dementia with Lewy bodies |
| Mild cognitive impairment |
Parkinson’s disease dementia
Characterized by trembling, stiffness, poor balance and/or slow movement; dementia often occurs late in this disease |
Huntington’s disease
An inherited brain disorder; dementia may occur in late stages of this disease |
| Autism (adults) |
| Adult ADHD |
| Trisomy 21 (Down’s syndrome) |