Treatment of memory impairment in Kharkiv

The medical center “ON Clinic Kharkiv” carries out a wide range of medical activities for the diagnostics and treatment of memory impairment. Our experienced neurologists develop an individualized therapy course for their patients to restore cognitive abilities in the shortest possible time.

Memory is one of the functions of the nervous system. Various neural structures are involved in the memory formation. The complex organization of the processes of accumulation, preservation and reproduction of the accumulated information predetermines exclusively qualified treatment of its impairment.

The onset of cognitive disorders can occur both due to serious somatic diseases (stroke, tumor, diabetes), and due to age, vitamin deficiency or stress.

The main types of memory are:

• short-term operational (work) designed to solve specific situational tasks;
• mediated or associative, aimed at creating and consolidating logical connections between new and accumulated information;
• long-term or preservation, it can contain information from the working memory, as well as analyzed, structural information over a long period of time.

Who treats memory impairment and attention failure?

Treatment of memory impairments is within the competence of a neurologist. The need to consult this specialist is evidenced by: speech disorders, forgetfulness, loss of the ability to navigate in a familiar place and a decrease in mental functions.

Forms of memory impairment manifestation

Today, memory impairment is classified as follows:

• hypomnesia due to age or neurological disease (craniocerebral trauma, atherosclerosis of the brain arteries);
• amnesia when information disappears from memory for a certain fragment of time;
• hypermnesia characterized by a sharp exacerbation of memory and cognitive functions;
• paramnesia accompanied by the appearance of confusion and the appearance of false detailed memories.

 Attention failures are classified as follows:

• instability combined with deviations of the psyche (schizophrenia, etc.);
• rigidity, which is often observed against the background of epilepsy;
• decrease in concentration which occurs both with fatigue and with cognitive dysfunctions.

Neurologists distinguish two main degrees of impairment of memory and cognitive functions: moderate and dementia. Dementia is a significant impairment of cognitive abilities, the progression of which leads to impaired speech and self-management. Timely diagnostics and treatment can prevent the development of a large-scale deterioration in memory functions, and long-term practice of special therapeutic techniques can improve the situation.

The development mechanism of various diseases includes impairment of various types of memory. So, in case of Alzheimer disease there is impairment of short-term memory, in epilepsy - impairment of mediated memory, and with local brain lesions, for example, frontal zones, memory impairments are combined with changes in personality and behavior (lack of critical thinking, sense of boundaries and inhibitions, etc.).

Therapy for memory and attention disorders is aimed at treating the underlying disease and correcting the changes that have occurred. Usually it consists of medication course, psychocorrection techniques and normalization of a healthy lifestyle.

Making an appointment for a consultation or treatment of memory impairments by neurologists of “ON Clinic Kharkiv” is carried out by calling the medical center or filling out an online application on our website.