About 1/3 of people 85 and older show signs of the disease. Loss of sense of smell. Older adults who have trouble identifying odors or smells are more than twice as likely to have dementia than those with a good sense of smell. Smoking. Tobacco damages blood vessels and blood flow leadi...
Smell loss predicts mortality risk regardless of dementia conversion. Ekstr m I,Sj lund S,Nordin S,et al. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society . 2017I. Ekstrom, S. Sjolund, S. Nordin et al., "Smell loss predicts mortality risk regardless of dementia conversion," Journal of the ...
Dementia is a broad term for loss of thinking ability that’s severe enough to interfere with your daily life. Thinking abilities include things such as memory, language skills, problem-solving, visual perception, self-management, and your ability to focus and pay attention. About 5%-8% of pe...
Dementia is a broad term for loss of thinking ability that’s severe enough to interfere with your daily life. Thinking abilities include things such asmemory, language skills, problem-solving, visual perception, self-management, and your ability to focus and pay attention. ...
Neurological symptoms of COVID-19 include headaches, dizziness, confusion, and anosmia (loss of smell), and more severe complications such as strokes, seizures, and encephalitis have been observed. Long-term effects, often referred to as "long COVID," include persistent cognitive deficits, known ...
Dementia, chronic, usually progressive deterioration of intellectual capacity associated with the widespread loss of nerve cells and the shrinkage of brain tissue. There are many kinds of dementia. It is most commonly seen in the elderly, but dementia ca
differentiated DLB from MSA. The small number of MSA patients they studied had UPSIT scores in the 30's, while the small number of PD and DLB patients that they studied were about 10-25. So in other words, if your sense of smell is normal, this is a point for MSA, and if it is...
Dementia is often associated with a loss of ability to recognize and understand information gathered from the senses of vision, hearing, touch, taste, and smell. In our research many examples were provided where the person with dementia misinterpreted sensory information. This has more recently been...
The authors show in an animal model and in a study in patients with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) that the drug neflamapimod has potential to treat diseases, such as DLB, associated with loss of neurons that produce the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. ...
Urinary incontinence(loss of bladder control) Sexual dysfunction Constipation A weakened sense of smell What are the first signs of Lewy body dementia? Hallucinations are often the first sign of LBD. They affect about 80% of people with the disease. ...