A case report on mirrored self-misidentification syndrome.
An 83 years old male patient Mr. X, graduate, married, retired from his job, belonging to middle socio-economic status, hailing from urban background was accompanied to the OPD by his daughter. Informant had complaints of suspiciousness, abusing family members, abnormal behaviour, and memory impairment in the past 6 months. Patient started suspecting that there is […]
A Spectrum of Rare Symptoms
A 23-year-old woman presented with the psychosis, increased appetite along with obsessive symptoms and poor hygiene. She was non-responsive to therapy for obsessive compulsive disorder. Her MRI showed diffuse, bilateral frontal temporal atrophy prominently in subarachnoid spaces, sylvian fissure and ventricles. Her Mini Mental Status Examination (MMSE) score was 13/30 and her Frontal Assessment Battery […]
Active Brain to Delay Alzheimer’s Onset
A longitudinal cohort study claims that high level of cognitive activity in older age may delay the onset of alzheimer’s disease by nearly 5 years. 1,903 old participants were enrolled for annual cognitive clinical evaluations and neuropathologic examination after death. Cognitive activity at baseline and time of diagnosis along with postmortem markers of alzheimer’s and […]
Mortality Rates in Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Other types of dementias could be more concerning than alzheimer’s disease due to high mortality rates, says a new study. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed including 78 studies to compare the difference in mortality rates between those without dementia and with various types of dementia. The study encompassed 63125 individuals with dementia and […]
Sleep Problems and Dementia
A study reports that shorter the sleep one takes during the midlife higher is the risk of late-onset dementia. The study included 7959 participants of the Whitehall II study to examine the association between sleep duration and incidence of dementia using over 25 years. 521 participants developed dementia mostly after the age of 70 years. […]