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  2. Childhood dementia - Wikipedia

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    Childhood dementia can significantly affect both parents and the affected child by causing anxiety, feelings of helplessness, profound grief, and a sense of loss as the child conditions continues to progress over time. Children with childhood dementias suffer severe sleep disturbances, movement disorders (e.g. muscle spasms, tremors ...

  3. Posterior cortical atrophy - Wikipedia

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    Studies have shown that PCA may be a variant of Alzheimer's disease (AD), with an emphasis on visual deficits. [2] [11] Although in primarily different, but sometimes overlapping, brain regions, both involve progressive neural degeneration, as shown by the loss of neurons and synapses, and the presence of neurofibrillary tangles and senile plaques in affected brain regions; this eventually ...

  4. Frontotemporal dementia - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms are classified into three groups based on the affected functions of the frontal and temporal lobes: [8] These are behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia, and progressive nonfluent aphasia. An overlap between symptoms can occur as the disease progresses and spreads through the brain regions. [14]

  5. Dementia Doctors Share The Changes They Would Make ... - AOL

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    Moderate and severe traumatic brain injuries increase a risk of cognitive decline or dementia even years later by anywhere from two to four times, according to the Alzheimer’s Association. For ...

  6. Organic brain syndrome - Wikipedia

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    For example, some forms of chronic drug or alcohol dependence can cause organic brain syndrome due to their long-lasting or permanent toxic effects on brain function. [6] Other common causes of chronic organic brain syndrome sometimes listed are the various types of dementia , which result from permanent brain damage due to strokes, [ 7 ...

  7. File:Alzheimer's disease brain comparison.jpg - Wikipedia

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  8. Visual selective attention in dementia - Wikipedia

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    Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, which approximately two thirds of individuals with dementia are diagnosed with. [7] It is the major cause of dementia in older adults. [ 8 ] AD has an insidious onset with worsening prognosis, and results in deterioration in memory, spatial abilities, language, and many other cognitive ...

  9. Visual memory - Wikipedia

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    The posterior parietal cortex is a portion of the parietal lobe, which manipulates mental images, and integrates sensory and motor portions of the brain. A majority of experiments highlights a role of human posterior parietal cortex in visual working memory and attention.