Memory and aging

Woman with age-related dementia

Age-related memory loss, sometimes described as "normal aging" (also spelled "ageing" in British English), is qualitatively different from memory loss associated with types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease, and is believed to have a different brain mechanism.[1]

  1. ^ Budson AE, Price BH (February 2005). "Memory dysfunction" (PDF). The New England Journal of Medicine. 352 (7): 692–9. doi:10.1056/NEJMra041071. PMID 15716563.

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