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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Today's topic was "Cognitive Impairment." As usual, Dr. Ryou was very informative about the disorder while being hilarious! That slight Asuna fanservice though. :9 . I like how she dodged the question about her age, even after her grandpa's reinforcement. |
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vodall said: I hate myself for thinking that Asuna is adorable, but here we are. you are not the only one |
| i'm learning many things from this show, hahaha |
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| Hmm funny episode with the way they answered those questions. I didn't feel the romanticism at the end either though. |
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| Okay, so today we came to the cheery subject of Dementia. I am happy for the Japanese that they took their old term 痴呆症 and replaced it with 認知症. But "Dementia" is still the correct term in the English-speaking world for a category of diseases that make you lose ... well, I'm sure you get the idea. Their old name for it, 痴呆症, carries connotations of either acting crazy or else staring off blankly into space. Their new name for it, 認知症, literally means that you have trouble recognizing and knowing. So that certainly doesn't sound as bad. In English, it would translate as "Cognitive Impairment". But Cognitive Impairment is a specific symptom, and not the name of a disease. You can be cognitively impaired due to being drunk or high on drugs. Luckily, it reverses the next morning. I don't think that there are any plans in the English-speaking world to take the traditional name of "Dementia" and replace it with something like "Cognitive Impairment Disease". But "Dementia" is certainly an unpleasant-sounding word. The major thing that they didn't mention is that the vast majority of people with Dementia turn out to have Alzheimer's Disease. There are several other forms of Dementia, each of them fairly rare. It certainly totally sucks to be told that you (or a family member) have Alzheimer's Disease. |
okanaganFeb 26, 2015 6:36 PM
| I'm sorry, but Asuna's grandpa is pretty adorable, even though it's so sad he has developed dementia (though he might've been quite a character in his prime). My great-grandmother had dementia, and it was awful to watch her slowly deteriorate mentally (though I think she was able to remember my grandmother to the end, I don't recall Grandma ever lamenting over her mother not remembering her face anymore). It's also unfortunately hereditary in my family (from what I was told), though it seems to skip every other generation. So there's that chance my mom will end up developing it within the next few decades. I'm a bit disappointed with this one as it didn't go into detail about cognitive impairment, but hey, I still learned something. |
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| First penis and then pedo and now its dementia.. |
| I'm not convinced that Asuna's grandfather has Dementia. For one thing, we didn't see the score that he got on the test. Also, the test that they described sounds like a very simple one, along the lines of the Folstein MMSE test. If they are concerned, they'll do much more than that before deciding what to do next. Even if he does show cognitive impairment, the solution to the problem could be as simple as reducing the number of medications that he is taking. A very frequent problem for old people like him is that they are given too many different kinds of drugs for different things. It's called "polypharmacy". The show didn't mention that. Yes, it's true that cognitive impairment can be due to plain old depression, as they mentioned. That might be reversed in a number of ways. Try having him go out to play Mahjong once a week, for instance. Yes, it's true that, as they mentioned, Schizophrenia causes cognitive impairment. I don't know whether this is likely or not for Asuna's grandfather, but it sounds like a less probable suggestion to me, about as plausible as nurses having such huge exposed boobs. It is true that some people have information about their likelihood to get certain forms of Dementia based on their genetics. For example, there are some people who know that they have a higher probability of getting Alzheimer's disease. There are other people who know that they have a higher probability of getting other forms of Dementia. However, the vast majority of people won't have any warning. If I understand correctly, Dementia is a big problem in Japan. That is because they are so healthy in most other ways, so they tend to live a very long time. If you don't die of cancer, stroke or heart disease, you'll die of something else. Also, the probability (per year) of coming down with Alzheimer's rapidly increases once you start to get really old. Therefore, Japan may be faced with a huge crisis in the future when they have large numbers of people with Alzheimer's who need expensive care for a long period of time. A relatively small number of younger, healthier people are going to have to earn the money to pay the bills. |
okanaganFeb 27, 2015 3:06 AM
| Meh, it's getting better. Kinda funny and I like the ED song. |
Monjoex said: First penis and then pedo and now its dementia.. It keeps getting better and better :D |
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Aridus said: Monjoex said: First penis and then pedo and now its dementia.. It keeps getting better and better :D Best show of the season for me, no shit :( vodall said: I hate myself for thinking that Asuna is adorable, but here we are. Same here :( Danna ga Nani wo Itteiru ka Wakaranai Ken 2 Sure-me cant come fast enough... now there is a female lead that deserves all the love :) |
AlexGKMar 1, 2015 12:54 AM
Inuchiyo said: decent, this animated short has potential! Forget what I said for ep1 lol >_< this isn' t going anywhere for me content wise. However I liked Asuna's grandpa this ep lol. The character designs I'm fine with, just the comedy can really just miss a lot :/ Ferax said: Yea +1 this lol...vodall said: I hate myself for thinking that Asuna is adorable, but here we are. you are not the only one |
 "For the sake of humankind, I forsake my humanity." - Cherry |
| Having dementia while still being young can be troublesome. |
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| I was a bit confused when they got to the "100 - 7 ..." part, because I thought it was some aside Tokyo Ghoul reference. Didn't know that was an actual thing they tested you on. |
| Whenever I think of Asuna I think of the one from SAO. She's popular among the anime Asuna's. Funny how Dr.Ryou says why not name the common vegetables like carrots. |
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| Another quite fun episode! Let's see what's next. |
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| heh, idk how these ppl came out with the idea of making content about mental illnesses+comedy i mean the subject per se is very sad, we know more than one of our relatives suffered from it... i should expect nothing from a manga that got published in Young King Magazine, where there are usually black humor and hentai content xD now everything makes sense! |
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