Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself?

howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also, the fewer syllables that people suffering brain/memory issues, the easier it is for them to communicate.

  Nobody expects a person with brain problems to remember the entire medical encyclopedia, but it would make it quite a bit easier to shorten the most common brain disorders, where the suffering person might be able to remember and say it on their own.

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  • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He has dementia which is an easy enough word for most people to be able to say. If you want to know the location of the dementia it’s in the frontotemporal area of the brain. But why that complex word well the front of the brain is called the frontal lobes which is a fairly logical name then the temporal lobe is the part that’s near your temples which is also kind of logical.

    Historically medicine has been bad about being less specific with names and instead just naming things after people which while they are easier to say don’t actually describe what’s happening

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes, it’s easy for most people to say and spell dementia. Except for some of the people actually suffering from brain/memory disorders…

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      • Mesophar@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How is “dementia” harder than any other word? If they are suffering from brain/memory disorders, wouldn’t any new or novel word have the same issue? I think the opposite would be better, and normalizing simplified forms of the medical terminology (dementia instead of frontotemporal dementia) in every day language allows those words to have deeper roots in someone’s memory, making it less novel and more resilient to certain memory issues.

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