beautifulspam wrote:
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I has been use in bad cases yes. It is quite a new application.
Even when there is no other intellectual impairment (ie when the patient has a high iq)?
It would affect your IQ naturally, because any deficiency affects your IQ. If you have very little 'working memory' and executive that is an impairment. It affects almost everything you do and pulls on your other resources. I’m not saying I’m ret*d because my IQ is above the average, but even that is misleading. I give off a misleading impression because my verbal IQ is much, much higher. That is the bane of my life. The IQ test is not a sufficient measure of ‘function’ it is a very crude device for that.
My lack of long term memory is the likely explanation of having to deal with the consequences of cognitive dysfunction. There are various theories related to this. You understand how a memory device such as a hard drive has a file system / format, a way of organising and retrieving data systematically? Well it is fair to say I don’t have this or at least it is corrupted and also not having a virtual sketch pad to work things out on pulls on physical memory. I loose the thread literally. These are general analogies. I’m not saying my brain is anything like a normal computer.
I would expect the 'aspies' that would benefit form Aricept are in the minority.
Aricept should benefit ASD in general. Hopefully.