Personality Changes May Help Detect Form Of Dementia - May 29, 2007A simple personality test could help doctors detect dementia with Lewy bodies, a form of dementia often confused with Alzheimer's disease, sooner, according to a study published in the May 29, 2007, issue of Neurology®, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. |
Dementia causes one to lose her edge - May 6, 2007For someone whose livelihood depended on her mastery of language, it troubled Lynn Forbish when she'd struggle to extract an everyday word from memory -- "cafeteria," say -- only to have "mess hall" pop out instead. Later, as the fuzzy thinking worsened, it was her bra that gave her fits: Did the damn thing hook in the front or the back? Just whose idea was it for women to wear these things anyway? A year ago when she was diagnosed with Lewy body dementia… |




