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Terminal lucidity. Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders. [2][3] It has been reported ...
Subtle changes in brain activity in the presence of both amyloid-beta and tau proteins may point to Alzheimer's disease, long before symptoms appear, a new study indicates.
Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia, a group of diseases involving progressive neurodegeneration of the central nervous system. [ 11 ] It is one of the two Lewy body dementias, along with Parkinson's disease dementia. [ 12 ] Dementia with Lewy bodies can be classified in other ways.
General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane (GPI), paralytic dementia, or syphilitic paresis is a severe neuropsychiatric disorder, classified as an organic mental disorder, and is caused by late-stage syphilis and the chronic meningoencephalitis and cerebral atrophy that are associated with this late stage of the disease ...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [ 2 ] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [ 2 ][ 15 ] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [ 1 ] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...
Signs and symptoms. Frontotemporal dementia is an early onset disorder that mostly occurs between the ages of 45 and 65, [13] but can begin earlier, and in 20–25% of cases onset is later. [11][14] Men and women appear to be equally affected. [15] It is the most common early presenting dementia. [16]
Huntington's disease (HD), also known as Huntington's chorea, is an incurable neurodegenerative disease [7] that is mostly inherited. [8] The earliest symptoms are often subtle problems with mood or mental/psychiatric abilities. [9][1] A general lack of coordination and an unsteady gait often follow. [2] It is also a basal ganglia disease ...
Chronic: Physical therapy, surgery [ 1 ] Compartment syndrome is a condition in which increased pressure within one of the body's anatomical compartments results in insufficient blood supply to tissue within that space. [ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] There are two main types: acute and chronic. [ 6 ] Compartments of the leg or arm are most commonly involved.