Dementia history and symptoms

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Causes Alzheimer's Disease; Parkinson's Disease; Binswanger's Disease; Dementia with Lewy bodies; Thiamine deficiency; Vascular dementia; Marijuana abuse; AIDS; Neurosyphilis; Normal pressure hydrocephalus; Vitamin B12 deficiency; Vitamin B6 deficiency;
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Sabeeh Islam, MBBS [2]

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History and Symptoms

A positive history of memory loss and disorientation are suggestive of dementia. The most common symptoms of dementia include memory loss, disorientation, nominal dysphasia, getting lost, misplacing items, apathy, personality change, mood changes, constructional dyspraxia and poor abstract thinking.

The Global Deterioration Scale (GDS) is a validated and reliable instrument describing the clinical progression of dementia^[1]

References

↑ Reisberg B, Ferris SH, de Leon MJ, Crook T (September 1982). "The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia". Am J Psychiatry. 139 (9): 1136–9. doi:10.1176/ajp.139.9.1136. PMID 7114305.

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[pmid7114305-1] Reisberg B, Ferris SH, de Leon MJ, Crook T (September 1982). "The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia". Am J Psychiatry. 139 (9): 1136–9. doi:10.1176/ajp.139.9.1136. PMID 7114305.

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Dementia history and symptoms

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