Brain or brain blood-vessel degeneration {dementia}| {senile dementia} can be chronic and progressive.
symptoms
Recent-event memory loss is first symptom. People have intellect, memory, and personality impairment, but no consciousness or basic-skill impairment. People have unreal and slow thinking. People have slowness of, and disinterest in, activity. People forget goals, do not compensate for changes, live in present only, are emotionally sensitive, and are susceptible to bulbar palsy. At end, people lose basic personality and social skills.
causes
About 10% of older dementia patients have benign brain tumors and hypothyroidism.
types
Subnormality, old-age dementias, and remitting and relapsing psychoses are milder. Acute, primary, and curable dementias are harsher. Chronic, secondary, and incurable dementias are harsher.
recovery
Dementia reverses in 10% of patients.
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