Dementia
Mayo Clinic Study Identifies Potential Causes of Young-Onset Dementia
Published in Law and Health Weekly, May 3rd, 2008
A new Mayo Clinic study found that young-onset dementia often is caused by neurodegenerative or autoimmune/inflammatory conditions, but only rarely by Alzheimer's disease. This differs substantially from the common causes of dementia in older individuals (Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative dementias). These findings will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting in Chicago on April 15.
Dementia represents a progressive decline in a person's cognitive function that affects the ability to think, speak, reason, remember and move. The most common forms of dementia are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia....
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