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Dementia due to metabolic causes - Symptom

Symptoms:

Dementia that occurs with metabolic disorders may cause confusion and changes in intellect or reasoning. These changes may be temporary or permanent.

  • Decrease in:
    • Feeling (sensation)
    • Hearing
    • Movement
    • Speech
    • Vision
  • Difficulty making sense of person, place, or time
  • Language difficulties
  • Loss of bladder control
  • Personality changes
  • Slowly worsening loss of:
    • Intellectual function
    • Judgment
    • Memory
Note: The person may also have symptoms from the disorder that caused dementia.

Signs and tests:

An examination of the nervous system (neurologic examination) can show different problems, depending on the cause. Abnormal reflexes may be present.

Tests may include:

  • Reviewed last on: 2/13/2008
  • Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Departments of Anatomy & Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

References

Farlow MR, Cummings JL. Effective pharmacologic management of Alzheimer's disease. Am J Med. 2007;120:388-397.

Goetz CG, ed. Textbook of Clinical Neurology. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders;2007.

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