The impact is clearly visible due to the shrinking of the brain is starting to decline in memory and are often forgotten or dementia.
"So, don't be surprised if people are already starting to feel age is often forgotten. It's natural, and is part of the poses of aging, "said Raul Sibarani, nerve specialist in public seminars about dementia in Siloam MRCCC, Jakarta, Saturday (2/5/2011).
According to Raul, earlier parts of the brain undergoes shrinkage is the hippocampus. This instrumental parts of the brain to record stimulus-stimulus from the outside to get in or recorded in the brain.
The hippocampus is part of the limbic system and played a major role in the activities given the (memory) and the navigation of the room. The term derives from the hippocampus on the shape that resembles a sea horse Coronal.
In patients who suffer Alzheimer dementia, says Raul, Hippocampus became part of the brain are damaged first. In sufferers of Alzheimer 's, the process of development of damage to the brain cells in the hippocampus is not part of normal aging.
"The difficulty of remembering and being its main symptoms are loss of orientation," he explained.
In addition due to the damage of hippocampus of Alzheimer 's, dementia can also be caused by which nerve cells called a synapse. Synapse is the relationship between nerve cells with one another, or the communications nerve cells with one another.
Raul explains his neurological cell, a person who is nice, but if sinapsnya is interrupted, then automatically be interrupted anyway he thinks process. "So it's really Alzheimer dementia, which interrupted the nerve cell is one with another," brightening.
In Alzheimer's patients, the damage caused by the existence of a Synapse enzymes that cause the buildup of plaque-plaques in the brain. "Don't be surprised if the brains of Alzheimer's sufferers, it turns out there is diotopsi opened plaque-plaques, such as the items. It marks the occurred damages, " he said.