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Pseudodementia can develop in a wide range of neuropsychiatric disease such as depression, schizophrenia and other psychosis, mania, dissociative disorders, and conversion disorders. The presentations of pseudodementia may mimic organic dementia, but are essentially reversible on treatment and doesn't lead to actual brain degeneration. However ...
Terminal lucidity is a narrower term than the phenomenon paradoxical lucidity where return of mental clarity can occur anytime (not just before death). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] However, as of 2025 [update] , terminal lucidity is not considered a medical term and there is no official consensus on the identifying characteristics.
The problem of long exposure times also led to the phenomenon of hidden mother photography, where the mother was hidden in-frame to calm a young child and keep them still. [ 6 ] Post-mortem photography flourished in photography's early decades, among those who preferred to capture an image of the deceased. [ 7 ]
Cadaveric spasm can be distinguished from rigor mortis as the former is a stronger stiffening of the muscles that cannot be easily undone, while rigor mortis can. [ 2 ] The cause is unknown but is usually associated with violent deaths under extreme physical circumstances with intense emotion , such as the circumstances associated with death ...
Livor mortis (from Latin līvor ' bluish color, bruise ' and mortis ' of death '), postmortem lividity (from Latin post mortem ' after death ' and lividitas ' black and blueness '), hypostasis (from Greek ὑπό (hypo) ' under, beneath ' and στάσις (stasis) ' a standing ') [1] [2] or suggillation, is the second stage of death and one of ...
Mouth closure. Mouth closure is achieved through various methods. The body is first prepared by relieving rigor mortis, usually through massage. The oral and nasal cavities are swabbed clean, checked for any purge material, then the throat area is packed with cotton. [10] A common method of mouth closure is via needle injector. [11]
“Findings like these should prompt more cautious and informed discussions between doctors and patients, especially those at high risk for Alzheimer’s disease or other memory-related conditions ...
Pseudodementia (otherwise known as depression-related cognitive dysfunction) is a condition where mental cognition can be temporarily decreased. The term pseudodementia is applied to the range of functional psychiatric conditions such as depression and schizophrenia, that may mimic organic dementia, but are essentially reversible on treatment.