For example, one study found that four patients with progressive dementia eventually developed symptoms of simultanagnosia as well as components of Gerstmann's syndrome and transcortical sensory aphasia.
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The disease strikes about 6, 000 worldwide people per year, leaving the brain with holes and a spongelike consistency, resulting in progressive dementia and loss of physical functions.
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"He suffers from severe and progressive dementia, he's blind, he's effectively bedridden, and when he's out of bed he's in a wheelchair that he's got to be tied to _ as I understand it,"
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The initial patient, who is still alive, did not have rapidly progressive dementia, poor coordination or muscle ticks, so doctors didn't think she had Creutzfeldt-Jakob, said Dr . Allan Levey, chairman of Emory's neurology department.
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The disease strikes about 6, 000 people worldwide per year _ usually between the ages of 50 and 75 _ leaving the brain spongy and full of holes and causing a rapidly progressive dementia and loss of physical functions.
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Neurological symptoms may include vision changes, dimming, blurring, decrease of peripheral vision and seeing " stars " or " flashing lights . " Post-anoxic encephalopathy, psychosis, seizures, amnesia, cerebrovascular accident and progressive dementia may be indicative of neuropsychiatric effects.
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In addition to the 77 who have died, seven people are known to be suffering from the human form of mad-cow disease, a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease that results in progressive dementia and loss of physical functions, leaving the brain with holes and a spongelike consistency.
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The investigators examined the participants again in 1994-95 and once more in 1997-98, asking how many had begun to lose their memories and the ability to reason in the interim and how many of those had the type of progressive dementia that is typical of Alzheimer's disease.
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While the diagnosis of paraphrenia is not currently included in the DSM-IV or the ICD-10, many studies have recognized the condition as " a viable diagnostic entity that is distinct from schizophrenia, with organic factors playing a role in a significant portion of patients . " As such, paraphrenia is seen as being distinct from both schizophrenia and progressive dementia in old age.
