Question

What is the term for a progressive brain disorder that produces toss of memory and confusion and, in many cases, death?

Answer 1

Neurodegenerative..

Explanation:

Dementia, the term most often used to describe symptoms like loss of memory, confusion etc., is actually a broad description, and comprises a broad category of brain afflictions.

In most cases (ca. 50-70% it concerns Alzheimers, but it also includes less encountered disaeases like Parkinsons, Huntingtons, Advanced Syphilis (3rd stage and beyond), Creutzfeldt-Jacob, Kuru and Scrapie .

These diseases have different causes, but all lead to degeneration of neural tissue..

In the 1980's and 1990's there was a particular scare in the United Kingdom in the form of BSE : Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. It was transmissible to Humans by eating infected meat, and killed ca. 180 people in the UK alone.