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Post by Prone on Jan 6, 2007 13:31:11 GMT -8
These are kind of funny.
1) I am in hell right now. I've just taken a trip. I last went number 1 (taken a pee) 3 hours ago. I go to a gas station, and now I feel like I'm in heaven. What have I done?
2) Bill says that everyone calls him a liar, but he keeps claiming, "They say I'm a liar, when I say "no" to them, but I'm hearing everything for the first time." They think he has a condition. If he does, what condition does he have?
3) John got in a fight with a girl the other day. Later, he uses the phone to call his mom, yet she can't recognize his voice. What did the girl do to him in the fight?
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Post by ga on Jan 7, 2007 0:28:58 GMT -8
3) got kicked in the balls.
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Post by greeny on Jan 7, 2007 13:30:32 GMT -8
1. you took a piss
2. amnesia
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Post by Prone on Jan 7, 2007 17:44:26 GMT -8
3). Got kicked in the balls. 3) yes. 1. you took a piss 2. amnesia 1) right 2)You almost got it.
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Post by dxlightning on Jan 7, 2007 18:17:44 GMT -8
2. Alzheimers (sp?)
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Post by Prone on Jan 8, 2007 17:54:32 GMT -8
2) Yes, thats the one. Ok. to make a little difference in what amnesia and alzheimers is. With amnesia you just forgot what you thought about like the moment before. With Alzheimers, you forgot everything. I shouldn't have added "they thought he had a condition" to make it harder.
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Post by technohawk on Jan 8, 2007 20:09:27 GMT -8
2) Yes, thats the one. Ok. to make a little difference in what amnesia and alzheimers is. With amnesia you just forgot what you thought about like the moment before. With Alzheimers, you forgot everything. I shouldn't have added "they thought he had a condition" to make it harder. Short term memory loss: Loss of memories of events that are occuring right now. ie forgetting things in this exact moment. Long term memory is still functional(ie you remember your childhood etc) right up to the time that the trauma cause the short term memory loss. (Guy in memento had short term memory loss) Amnesia: Forgetting the past(parts of it or entirely). May retain motor skills and language skills. Can make NEW memories and retain them. Past memories may or may not come back. Alzheimer's: Form of dementia. People afflicted with this are usually eldery. Can cause sporadic memory loss of current events AND past events. Can also cause distortion of reality(ie thinking people who are dead are actually alive), false memories, and afflicted person may think stragers are long lost loved ones etc.. Alzheimers is progressive and people afflicted will get worse as time goes by unless treated. No known cure exists.
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Post by dxlightning on Jan 8, 2007 20:12:07 GMT -8
So Alzheimers is basically recurring amnesia.
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Post by technohawk on Jan 8, 2007 20:14:52 GMT -8
So Alzheimers is basically recurring amnesia. Not exactly. The amnesia symptoms play a part, but amnesiacs don't neccessarily ever have distortions of reality that Alzheimers patients do.
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Post by dxlightning on Jan 8, 2007 20:16:46 GMT -8
Well yea but I'm talking in the most basic sense. Amnesia is memory loss, Alzheimers is many memory losses over a period of time.
In the most basic sense.
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Post by technohawk on Jan 8, 2007 20:19:43 GMT -8
Well I was using my own personal knowledge of the topics. Now here's more accurate definitions.
Amnesia is a condition in which memory is disturbed. The causes of amnesia are organic or functional. Organic causes include damage to the brain, through trauma or disease, or use of certain (generally sedative) drugs. Functional causes are psychological factors, such as defense mechanisms. Hysterical post-traumatic amnesia is an example of this. Amnesia may also be spontaneous, in the case of transient global amnesia. This global type of amnesia is more common in middle-aged to elderly people, particularly males, and usually lasts less than 24 hours.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by progressive cognitive deterioration together with declining activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms or behavioral changes. It is the most common type of dementia.
The most striking early symptom is loss of short term memory (amnesia), which usually manifests as minor forgetfulness that becomes steadily more pronounced with illness progression, with relative preservation of older memories. As the disorder progresses, cognitive (intellectual) impairment extends to the domains of language (aphasia), skilled movements (apraxia), recognition (agnosia), and those functions (such as decision-making and planning) closely related to the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain as they become disconnected from the limbic system, reflecting extension of the underlying pathological process. These changes make up the essential human qualities, and thus AD is sometimes described as a disease where the victims suffer the loss of qualities that define human existence.
This pathological process consists principally of neuronal loss or atrophy, principally in the temporoparietal cortex, but also in the frontal cortex, together with an inflammatory response to the deposition of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.
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Post by Prone on Jan 8, 2007 22:15:39 GMT -8
Are you in the medical field? You seem to know a lot
I thought that amnesia was just like temporary forgetfullness, where as the thought that you have may never come back. I didn't know it spread to where your past was affected.
I knew that Alzheimer's is recurring forgetfullness, where you may forget who your family is, then remember it soon after, only to forget it again.
It reminds me of a movie. I forget the movie title, but a guy marries this women, who later on gets alzheimers. She loses the ability to do her daily routine. She puts makeup in her hair, and does everything wrong. She forgets who her family is. The husband starts to hang out with this one woman, and may even had a thing for her. He has to make a decision whether to stay with his alzheimer's stricken wife, or choose to marry this other person. In the end, he decides to stay with his wife.
Good movie, really.
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Post by tyrantisius on Jan 8, 2007 22:43:22 GMT -8
Are you in the medical field? You seem to know a lot It's pretty easy to google this sh*t.....
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Post by technohawk on Jan 8, 2007 23:32:54 GMT -8
Are you in the medical field? You seem to know a lot 1) Bachelor's of Science, major in Biology 2) Life experience with people with one of the diseases which forced me to do research on it 3) Movies and TV shows with those disorders mentioned/explained 4) Wikipedia And I think I'm going to keep this quote here:
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Post by Prone on Jan 9, 2007 15:03:27 GMT -8
Are you in the medical field? You seem to know a lot It's pretty easy to google this sh*t..... Well, techno's both smart in the medical category, as well as being able to keep up with current events, something I'm not really too keen about. I don't think he googled.
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