Items tagged “dementia”
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Behavioral variant frontotemporal lobar degeneration
Behavioral variant frontotemporal lobar degeneration (bvFTLD), also known as behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), is one of the clinical neurodegenerative diseases associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD).
Terminology
In the older literature, it is also referred...
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Semantic dementia
Semantic dementia, also known as semantic variant primary progressive aphasia, is generally considered to be one of three subtypes of primary progressive aphasia, along with progressive non-fluent aphasia and logopenic dementia.
Clinical presentation
Patients with semantic dementia typically p...
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Causes of dementia (mnemonic)
The causes of dementia can be remembered using the mnemonics:
VANISHED
DEMENTIA
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V: vascular, vitamin deficiency: B1, B6, B12, folate
A: Alzheimer disease, autoimmune: cerebral vasculitis, systemic lupus erythematosus
N: normal pressure hydrocephalus, neoplasia
I: infection, e.g. ...