Question 1

what causes dementia and its symptoms?

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The brain areas: Each different type of dementia causes damage to different parts of the brain. The symptoms a person has depends on the brain areas affected.

Question 2

what causes dementia and alzheimer's?

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Nobody knows: In most cases, it is not clear what are the causes of alzheimer's disease. In some cases, the cause is an abnormal gene but that is true in only about 5% of people with alzheimer's disease.

Question 3

what causes dementia patients to behave crazy, aggressive, confused?

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Loss of memory: By definition, dementia is 1) loss of memory &amp; 2) loss of function, whether speech, coordination, planning, etc. Strange behavior can result from not remembering or perhaps from not understanding. Crazy, aggressive confused behavior that&#x27;s different from usual can also be a result of infection, pain, change in environment, some medical ailment, or even medication. Best to discuss w/treating doc

Question 4

what causes vascular dementia?

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Lots of contributors: Hypertension, heart disease and diabetes are medical illnesses which contribute.  Certainly lifestyle issues such as smoking and alchol can contribute.  Vascular dementia can involve lareger strokes with obvious immediate changes, or microvascular changes or "mini-strokes" which can cause increased impairment usually in memory and executive functions over time.

Question 5

what would cause my dementia patient to have a bm in her sleep everynight at almost the same time and she is totally unaware. no accidents while awake?

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From demenia: Incontinence is not uncommon in certain dementias, but I would look into an EEG to make sure that they are not having seizures, which are more common nocturnally and dementia patients are at increased risk of.

Question 6

what are the causes of dementia?

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Many causes: Some are heredity like huntingtons, early alzheimers, some are vascular with same risk as heart disease, others are due to infection (menigitits) or trauma (ie multiple head trauma),  some related to auto immune disease.  Clearly too many types to worry about.  Eat healthy and exercise, get regular check-up and enjoy your brain now.

Question 7

what type of mutation causes dementia with lewd bodies?

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Allele, not a mutant: It's not well understood, but often appears in those w/ Parkinson's, so a link with the PARK11 gene has been studied. Like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's, most cases since not all end up w/ it LBD is not thought to be strongly inheredited. Yet LBD risk is heightened w/ inheritance of an allele. Info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies

Question 8

what type of drugs cause dementia or alzheimers?

Accepted Answer

Pseudo dementia : Drugs do not cause alzheimer's, but numerous medicines can make it far worse due to anti-cholinergic side effects, and many elderly pts can seem to be demented due to drug effects, which reverse when med is modified.

Question 9

what could cause frontal lobe dementia?

Accepted Answer

Frontal lobe dementi: Can have several possible causes. One of the most common is of course injury to the frontal lobes in the form of trauma such as can occur from sports or from motor vehicle accidents. Another disease called picks disease develops for unknown reasons. Other causes include vascular events like little strokes to the front part of the brain.

Question 10

can overmethylation cause dementia?

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No: Dementia is usually differentiated into two types: vascular type, and non-vascular type.  Vascular dementia is due to disruption in the vascular supply causing degeneration of neurons.  Non-vascular dementia, such as Alzheimer's dementia, Lewy body dementia are cause by mechanisms involve amyloid plaque depositions and neurofibrillary tangles, and accumulation of Lewy body in the neuron.

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