Guest guest Posted January 15, 2011 Report Share Posted January 15, 2011 How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your 1st grade teacher.." Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 Cogntive function includes lots of activities including longterm memory including energy/fatigue, nurologic function, sleep, short term cognitive skills, verbal skills, coordination, speed of response, understanding and comprehension, neurologic function is associated with the immune system and chronic diseasesSent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerryFrom: hoppefaith@...Sender: Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:56:32 -0500 (EST)< >Subject: Re: Aging, HIVHow do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your 1st grade teacher.." Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 16, 2011 Report Share Posted January 16, 2011 I had some cognitive function testing over the summer.The test was about 4 hrs. I thought I was forgetting too much and also have early stages Parkinson's. Fortunately nothing alarming was discovered. However, I now have a base line for the future > > How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is > pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our > kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She > brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your > 1st grade teacher.. " Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Assessing cognitive problems is not easy. A lot of us have excellent memory for events long ago but lot of fuzz for what happened last week – or this morning! I seem to remember hearing that these are different “compartments” of memory. I can’t remember appointments very well; thank god for my computer! Lots of times I go into a room & forgot why I went there. Neurocognitive assessments, done correctly, cover many aspects of mental and physical functioning and take several hours! Bob Munk From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Chicago48Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:41 PM Subject: Re: Aging, HIV I had some cognitive function testing over the summer.The test was about 4 hrs. I thought I was forgetting too much and also have early stages Parkinson's. Fortunately nothing alarming was discovered. However, I now have a base line for the future >> How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is > pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our > kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She > brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your > 1st grade teacher.. " Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 17, 2011 Report Share Posted January 17, 2011 Assessing cognitive problems is not easy. A lot of us have excellent memory for events long ago but lot of fuzz for what happened last week – or this morning! I seem to remember hearing that these are different “compartments” of memory. I can’t remember appointments very well; thank god for my computer! Lots of times I go into a room & forgot why I went there. Neurocognitive assessments, done correctly, cover many aspects of mental and physical functioning and take several hours! Bob Munk From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Chicago48Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 4:41 PM Subject: Re: Aging, HIV I had some cognitive function testing over the summer.The test was about 4 hrs. I thought I was forgetting too much and also have early stages Parkinson's. Fortunately nothing alarming was discovered. However, I now have a base line for the future >> How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is > pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our > kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She > brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your > 1st grade teacher.. " Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 18, 2011 Report Share Posted January 18, 2011 "How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your 1st grade teacher.." Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks."Short-term memory is far more important. Even markedly demented patients may recall events of 60 years ago. There is a last in/first out quality to memory.JB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 I find I am writing extensive journals at age 54-55. My mind is often like an "open channel" with delicious thoughts, theories, memories, musical ideas, lovers, amazing coincidences that are almost to strange to be true, and like snowflakes they disappear FAST unless I capture the thoughts in written journals. I even take different colored highlighters and like an old Apple Imac application, color code the passages in the journal. Of my personal choice-blue means music, pink means love, sex or extremely personal, orange means work, green means money, and yellow means, well...just highlight! After about 14 large books chalk full in the last 2 years, I am quite amazed what I captured from my thoughts, and the trick was how fast I could get the thought to pen and paper. I read a journal that I wrote a long time ago, when I was in college at age 17, and the Czech film director and head professor had awarded me...the best documentary contest win...(it was a day in the life of my 83 year old Grandmother, "Reba'".) Since most of my classmates were much older with beards and world experiences that I lacked, I would never have revisited this event, had it not been for a mere journal entry that survived all the years of moving, and travel. But I do feel the unwinding of my mental abilities, especially when I read about the TAT protein, and the damage to the neuro transmitters behind the blood brain barrier, as noted in the University of Rochester Study. The chemical messengers (NT) appeared like the "broken branches of an ice forest." So this discussion is very important. HIV may be UD in the blood but it lurks elsewhere and the brain is a delicate target it manages to send a TAT protein element in for ....wreckage. Keep the faith- MS Re: Aging, HIV I had some cognitive function testing over the summer.The test was about 4 hrs. I thought I was forgetting too much and also have early stages Parkinson's. Fortunately noth ing alarming was discovered. However, I now have a base line for the future > > How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is > pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our > kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She > brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your > 1st grade teacher.." Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 I find I am writing extensive journals at age 54-55. My mind is often like an "open channel" with delicious thoughts, theories, memories, musical ideas, lovers, amazing coincidences that are almost to strange to be true, and like snowflakes they disappear FAST unless I capture the thoughts in written journals. I even take different colored highlighters and like an old Apple Imac application, color code the passages in the journal. Of my personal choice-blue means music, pink means love, sex or extremely personal, orange means work, green means money, and yellow means, well...just highlight! After about 14 large books chalk full in the last 2 years, I am quite amazed what I captured from my thoughts, and the trick was how fast I could get the thought to pen and paper. I read a journal that I wrote a long time ago, when I was in college at age 17, and the Czech film director and head professor had awarded me...the best documentary contest win...(it was a day in the life of my 83 year old Grandmother, "Reba'".) Since most of my classmates were much older with beards and world experiences that I lacked, I would never have revisited this event, had it not been for a mere journal entry that survived all the years of moving, and travel. But I do feel the unwinding of my mental abilities, especially when I read about the TAT protein, and the damage to the neuro transmitters behind the blood brain barrier, as noted in the University of Rochester Study. The chemical messengers (NT) appeared like the "broken branches of an ice forest." So this discussion is very important. HIV may be UD in the blood but it lurks elsewhere and the brain is a delicate target it manages to send a TAT protein element in for ....wreckage. Keep the faith- MS Re: Aging, HIV I had some cognitive function testing over the summer.The test was about 4 hrs. I thought I was forgetting too much and also have early stages Parkinson's. Fortunately noth ing alarming was discovered. However, I now have a base line for the future > > How do we know if we have cog problems.. For ex. my long term memory is > pretty good.. For ex, at 50 yrs old,, I still remember , in detail, when our > kindergarten teacher walked us over to our first grade teacher.. She > brought us over to the other side of the school and said " surprise , I'm your > 1st grade teacher.." Does this mean I have no cog dysfunction? thanks. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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