Moments of clarity in the fog of dementia - Mayo Clinic News …
Mar 4, 2024 · The findings showed that 75% of people having lucid episodes were reported to have Alzheimer’s Disease as opposed to other forms of dementia. Researchers define lucid episodes as unexpected, spontaneous, meaningful and relevant communication from a person who is assumed to have permanently lost the capacity for coherent interactions, either ...
What is frontotemporal dementia? - Mayo Clinic News Network
Feb 23, 2024 · How is frontotemporal dementia different from Alzheimer's disease? Alzheimer's disease is more common among people 75 and older. However, people with early onset Alzheimer's or frontotemporal dementia typically start exhibiting symptoms in midlife, from roughly age 30 to 60. Memory changes are less common with frontotemporal dementia than with ...
Mayo Clinic Minute: Dietary supplements don't reduce dementia …
Jun 11, 2019 · Do dietary supplements reduce your risk of dementia and improve brain health? The Global Council on Brain Health says they don't. In a new report, the organization recommends that most people not take dietary supplements for this purpose. In addition, the Global Council on Brain Health, which is a collaborative organization associated with the …
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Understanding delirium versus dementia
Dec 28, 2018 · In addition, dementia often begins with memory loss that involves daily activities, such as forgetting appointments or bills, or having difficulty with planning. Unlike those affected by delirium, people with early-stage dementia typically don’t have problems with their ability to maintain attention, and they generally remain alert and ...
Researchers identify new criteria to detect rapidly progressive …
Nov 8, 2023 · Rapidly progressive dementia is caused by several disorders that quickly impair intellectual functioning and interfere with normal activities and relationships. If patients' symptoms appear suddenly and they decline quickly, a physician may make the diagnosis of RPD.
Mayo Clinic Q and A: My mom has Alzheimer’s. What does that …
Sep 16, 2024 · I have kids living at home and an aging parent in ill health. My mom is 83 and in an assisted living facility with physical and cognitive problems. She has been diagnosed with mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease. It makes me sad for my mom and also concerned for myself. Whenever I can't remember something, I think I'm getting dementia too.
Mayo Clinic Q and A: Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer's …
Mar 4, 2017 · Lewy body dementia usually progresses gradually over several years, but the way it progresses can vary significantly from person to person. For example, Lewy body dementia may begin with signs of dementia, and Parkinsonism appears later. Or the disease may start with movement difficulties, and signs of dementia don’t emerge for some time.
Mayo Clinic expert provides tips for reducing dementia risk
Aug 25, 2022 · Ronald Petersen, M.D., a neurologist and director of Mayo Clinic’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, says you can’t prevent dementia, but you can reduce your risk. Dementia is not one disease, but instead a term for a group of symptoms affecting memory, thinking and social abilities. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.
Signs and symptoms of Lewy body dementia
Sep 3, 2020 · Lewy body dementia, also known as dementia with Lewy bodies, is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer's disease dementia. Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control). Lewy body dementia causes a progressive decline in mental …
Alzheimer’s and dementia: When to stop driving
Nov 12, 2019 · An additional passenger to travel with the person with dementia — to sit in the back seat together and chat — may help with the transition to being a passenger rather than a driver. When to stop driving. People with mild dementia are at a much greater risk of unsafe driving compared with people of the same age without dementia.