Dementia

Question 1

memory loss, abrupt onset, step- wise decline (symptoms stay the same for a while and then they get bad quite quickly)
-what diagnosis?

Answer 1

Vascular dementia
-type of cerebrovascular disease casuing brain ischaemia

Question 2

patient has memory loss, visual hallucinations, sleep disorders, movement disorder

-what diagnosis?

Answer 2

Lewy Body dementia
-Lewy body deposition in the brain

Question 3

Patient has memory loss, personality changes, is quite young

-what diagnosis?

Answer 3

Frontotemporal dementia
-frontotemporal atrophy