Acute fright induces onset of symptoms in vanishing white matter dis- ease: case report. Eur J Paediatr Neurol. 2006;10(4):192-193.Kaczorowska M, Kuczynski D, Jurkiewicz E, et al. Acute fright induces onset of
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are highly prevalent in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and associated with adverse outcomes. There is increasing interest in identifying the risk factors for developing BPSD among AD patients. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying BPSD ...
The most common causes of dementia include: Alzheimer's disease Vascular dementia Parkinson's disease Dementia with Lewy bodies Frontotemporal dementia Severe head injury Other less common causes include: Huntington's disease Leukoencephalopathies, diseases that affect the deeper, white-matter brain ...
Both pneumonia types, viral and bacterial, can cause severe disease and sometimes death. Antigenic shift and drift Figure 2. An example of influenza antigenic shift and drift Influenza type A viruses undergo two major kinds of changes. One is a series of mutations that occurs over time and ...
It can also cause severe pelvic infections. If untreated, some women with chlamydia will develop the pelvic inflammatory disease (PID; see above). Because it is common for infected women to have no symptoms, chlamydial infection is often untreated and results in extensive destruction of the ...
Liver disease Severe anemia Blood loss Some blood disorders, such as sickle cell anemia Certain medicines, such as HIV drugs, in your system If you're of African, Mediterranean, or Southeast Asian descent, you could also have a different type of hemoglobin (called a hemoglobin variant) that ...
Seasonal allergies are on the rise, but you don't need to suffer through them. With medications and lifestyle modifications, you can nip allergy symptoms in the bud. Shanley ChienMay 1, 2025 Delusions vs. Hallucinations Delusions and hallucinations are both symptoms of psychosis and can arise ...
We aimed to investigate the relative contribution of white matter hyperintensities and cortical thickness to NPS in participants across neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases. Methods Five hundred thirteen participants with one of these conditions, i.e. Alzheimer’s Disease/Mild Cognitive Impairment,...
Type 2 diabetes is a lifelong disease that keeps your body from using insulin the way it should. People who are middle-aged or older are most likely to get this kind of diabetes. It used to be called adult-onset diabetes or diabetes mellitus. But type 2 diabetes also affects kids andtee...
Though chickenpox infection is usually a benign (but uncomfortable) event in a child's life, there is a significant risk of severe complications, including bacterial skin infections, pneumonia, and others. That is the reason that vaccination is recommended and routine. It can go dormant and ...