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Trouble with visual images and spatial relationships, including vision changes that could lead to issues with balance or reading and difficulty judging distance or seeing color contrasts, can ...
Sundowning is often a symptom that happens after someone is diagnosed with dementia or a dementia-related disease, but it can also be an early sign of mental decline itself. “There are changes ...
This isn’t the first time that better sleep has been linked with a lower risk of dementia: A study published in October even found that people with sleep apnea are more likely to develop dementia.
Childhood dementia is very often diagnosed late, misdiagnosed, or not diagnosed at all. [9] A correct diagnosis happens, on average, 2 years or more after symptoms become apparent. Additionally, children affected by childhood dementia are often misdiagnosed with: Autism [16] [9] [17] Developmental or intellectual delay [16] [9] ADHD [9] Others [9]
Signs and symptoms are classified into three groups based on the affected functions of the frontal and temporal lobes: [8] These are behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia, and progressive nonfluent aphasia. An overlap between symptoms can occur as the disease progresses and spreads through the brain regions.
[medical citation needed] Early signs of AD include unusual memory loss, particularly in remembering recent events and the names of people and things (logopenic primary progressive aphasia). As the disease progresses, the patient exhibits more serious problems, becoming subject to mood swings and unable to perform complex activities such as driving
Early intervention could reduce your risk of developing dementia-related disease
The subject shows the applause sign when they fail to clap three times, usually continuing past 3. [3] PSP patients are most common displayers of the sign, [2] with occasional appearances in individuals with corticobasal degeneration, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer's disease. [2] [3] [4 ...