A preentation researching whether long term alcohol abuse can lead to cognitive degerative disease.

1. Alcoholism and Dementia:Is there a relation? By Danny Gallegos

4. Increasing rate of alcoholism and dementia

5. Alcoholism

6. Dementia

7. Physiological affects of alcoholism on brain

8. Physiological affect of Alzheimer’s

9. Studies between dementia and alcohol consumption

11. Things to Consider Alcohol abuse impairs cognitive ability and damages the brain through atrophy Dementia is a neurodegenerative cognitive disorder It is logical to question if alcoholism increases the risk of developing dementia An understanding of any correlation can help with treatment and prevention of dementia

13. Alcoholism and Dementia Statistics Alcoholism Estimated 6.6 million children live in households with at least one alcoholic parent 53% of Americans report a close relative is an alcoholic Alcoholism-Statistics.com Dementia Estimated 24 million people world wide have some form of dementia More than 5 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s today Dementia is the worlds fastest growing diseases Disabled-world.com

16. Alcoholism is characterized by abnormal alcohol-seeking behavior and impaired control over drinking (Gordis, 1995).

18. PHYSIOLOGICAL AFFECTS OF ALCOHOLISM

19. PHYSIOLGICAL AFFECTS OF ALZHEIMERS

20. Physiological comparison between an Alcohol atrophy brain and Alzheimer’s disease brain

21. LITERATURE FINDINGS Based on clinical research studies between 22% to 29% of individuals with dementia were found to be heavy drinkers or alcoholics and 9% to 23% of elderly alcoholics in alcoholism treatment were found to also have dementia (FCA: Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome, n.d.). The research suggests that there was a significantly decreased risk of developing any form of dementia diseases associated with light to moderate drinkers. The research also showed that heavy alcohol drinkers and non alcohol drinkers actually developed dementia diseases at the same rates (Anstey, Mack, & Cherbuin, 2009).

22. LITERATURE FINDINGS CONT. Compared to non drinkers, the moderate consumption of alcohol lowered the risk of a poor CASI score by 22% to 40% (Galanis et al., 2000). Men who consumed more than 4 drinks per day had considerably lower scores and increased the risk of poor cognitive abilities (Galanis et al., 2000).

23. CONCLUSION The causes of brain atrophy differed from alcohol abuse and dementia and the atrophy even halted with the abstinence of alcohol (Acuff, 2010). Studies suggest that light to moderate alcohol consumptions may even decrease the risk of developing any dementia diseases. Those same studies also suggest a similar rate of developing dementia diseases between non alcohol drinkers and heavy alcoholic consumption

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