Medicine:Early onset dementia
Early onset dementia is dementia in which symptoms first appear before the age of 65.[1] The term favored until about 2000 was presenile dementia; young onset dementia is also used.[2]
Early onset dementia may be caused by degenerative or vascular disease, or it may be due to other causes, such as alcohol-related dementia and other inflammatory or infectious processes.[1] Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and frontotemporal lobar degeneration are the most common forms of early onset dementia, with Alzheimer's accounting for between 30 and 40%.[1] Early onset dementia may also occur, less frequently, in the Lewy body dementias (dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia), multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease and other conditions.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Early-onset dementias: Specific etiologies and contribution of MRI". Diagn Interv Imaging 95 (4): 377–98. April 2014. doi:10.1016/j.diii.2013.07.009. PMID 24007775.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The diagnosis of young-onset dementia". Lancet Neurol 9 (8): 793–806. August 2010. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70159-9. PMID 20650401.
Further reading
- "A systematic review of the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and apathy in frontotemporal dementia, atypical and young-onset Alzheimer's disease, and inherited dementia". Int Psychogeriatr: 1–20. July 2020. doi:10.1017/S1041610220001118. PMID 32684177. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10112879/.
- "Recommendations to distinguish behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia from psychiatric disorders". Brain 143 (6): 1632–1650. June 2020. doi:10.1093/brain/awaa018. PMID 32129844.
- "Early-onset dementia: key issues using a relationship-centred care approach". Postgrad Med J 97 (1151): 598–604. September 2021. doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138517. PMID 32883770.
- "The Effects of Aerobic Exercise in Patients with Early-Onset Dementia: A Scoping Review". Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 50 (1): 9–16. 2021. doi:10.1159/000516231. PMID 33957623.
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