Sentences with phrase «causes symptoms of dementia»

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In humans, prion diseases can cause a variety of rapidly progressive neurological symptoms, such as difficulty walking and speaking, and dementia.

Interventions before symptoms appear could be key to slowing or stopping the leading cause of dementia

Attempts to treat the world's most common form of dementia may have been attacking its symptoms, not its root cause

Around 90 % of people with dementia experience symptoms that affect their behaviour causing aggression, agitation, or even delusions and hallucinations.

«These results could have significant public health implications as Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, and approximately half of older adults have insomnia symptoms.»

Scientists at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida created a novel mouse that exhibits the symptoms and neurodegeneration associated with the most common genetic forms of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease), both of which are caused by a mutation in the a gene called C9ORF72.

* Parkinson's disease commonly starts after the age of 50 and causes a combination of debilitating symptoms, including shaking and other abnormal movements, loss of balance, low blood pressure, bladder and intestinal problems, sleeping disorders and dementia.

There may be a slow - growing tumor in certain areas of the brain that can cause dementia symptoms.

Perhaps even more alarming to pediatricians is the creeping possibility, based on studies of professional boxers, that young boxers could develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a condition caused by repetitive blows to the head that can lead to dementia - like symptoms later in life.

Experts aren't sure which comes first — if dementia symptoms cause people to feel left out or withdraw from social activities, or if feeling lonely actually promotes the development of dementia — but they suspect the relationship may go both ways.

High corn or other tryptophan - deficient diets can cause pellagra, which is a niacin - tryptophan deficiency disease with symptoms of dermatitis, diarrhea and dementia.

Dr. Carnahan then covers Dr. Dale Bredesen's subtypes of early - onset dementia which allows you to treat the root cause and actually reverse symptoms.

Vitamin B3 deficiency lasting for few months [7] causes pellagra (Italian pella agra = rough skin) with «four D» symptoms: dermatitis with burn - like blisters and later rough, scaly and painful, but not itchy, lesions on the sun - exposed areas (face, extension side of the hands / arms and leg / feet), diarrhea, dementia and death (if not treated)[1].