MID
Symptoms
- Confusion at night
- Decreased ability to function independently
- Decreased interest in daily living activities
- Difficulty making judgments
- Extreme emotional disturbance (agitation)
- Frustration, depression, anxiety, stress, and tension from loss of mental function
- Inability to be spontaneous
- Lack of emotion
- Memory loss
- Numbness or tingling
- Slowly worsening memory loss (
dementia ) and:-
Confusion , disorientation - Decline in many brain functions that gets worse
- Difficulties with attention, concentration, judgment, and behavior
- Difficulty thinking
- False beliefs (delusions)
- Hearing sounds or seeing things that are not there (hallucinations)
- Personality changes
- Problems with language (
aphasia ) - Uncoordinated or weak movements
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- Swallowing difficulty
- Sudden involuntary laughing or crying
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Urinary incontinence - Withdrawal from social interaction
- Inability to interact in social or personal situations
- Inability to keep a job
Signs and tests
Diagnosis rules out other causes of dementia, including
Signs of multi-infarct dementia include:
- Abnormal reflexes
- Local nervous system (neurologic) signs (on the modified Hachinski ischemia scale)
- Past stroke or high blood pressure
- Periods of quick worsening alternating with stable periods of very little change
- Quick onset
- Weakness or loss of function on one side, one area, or many areas
Tests may include:
-
Head CT scan -
MRI of the brain



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