Seizures may occur, usually late in the course. Cognitive decline/dementia is of subcortical vascular type with impaired executive and organizing functions, general mental and psychomotor slowing ...

Nonneurologist practitioners faced with the diagnosis of dementia cannot be expected ... and cortical and subcortical signs accompanying the many forms of frontotemporal lobar degenerations.

There are rare faulty genetic disorders passed down in families that can cause vascular dementia, by damaging blood vessels in the brain. One is called CADASIL which stands for ‘cerebral autosomal ...

Jan. 29, 2025 — Older adults whose cholesterol changes over time may be more likely to develop dementia than people whose cholesterol is stable, regardless of the actual cholesterol level ...

Objectives/methods Using a specially designed functional MRI (fMRI) cycling ergometer, we have determined the sequence in which the cortical and subcortical brain regions are modulated at low and high ...

The present study examined associations between childhood trauma, depression, adult cognitive functioning and risk of dementia. Methods Data from 378 participants in the PREVENT Dementia Study aged 40 ...

Background: Neurodegenerative diseases might affect social cognition in various ways depending on their components (theory of mind, emotional processing, attribution bias, and social perception) and ...

Find out how Alzheimer's Society are going about improving the lives of people with dementia through personalised care, support, and its evaluation. People affected by dementia told Alzheimer's ...

Find out what support is available from a GP when a person has dementia, including the role of the GP in dementia care. The GP can support a person even if they don't accept their diagnosis. General ...

Visual hallucinations (VH) are commonly found in the course of synucleinopathies like Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. The incidence of VH in these conditions is so high that the ...