Early Signs Of Dementia Checklist - First Signs Of Dementia

Early Signs Of Dementia Checklist - People in the early stages of dementia may not be able to distinguish the lies and sarcasm, says a new study. The findings could help doctors diagnose dementia, such as Alzheimer's, much before.

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"If someone has a strange behavior and fail to distinguish things like sarcasm and untruth, consult with a specialist who can be sure that this is not the beginning of one of these diseases," said researcher Katherine Rankin, a Neuropsychologist at the University of California, San Francisco.

Rankin and his colleagues asked about 175 people, more than half of whom had a neurodegenerative, as the dementia disorder, watch videos of people talking. People recorded on video at times lying or wore expressions of sarcasm denoting with signs on their body and verbal language. Later, participants answered questions about what they had seen.

Early Signs Of Dementia Checklist - First Signs Of Dementia

Most healthy participants were able to distinguish the lies. But older adults with dementia that affects the frontal lobes - the seat of judgment and self-control in the brain - found it difficult to distinguish the difference between sarcasm, lying and the truth. People with frontotemporal dementia, which affects the frontal lobes, step especially difficult times, while those Alzheimer's patients responded better to the questions.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images, the researchers found that the inability to detect sarcasm and untruth is related to the amount of damage in parts of the frontal lobe. A sudden naivety must be recognised as an early sign of dementia, said Rankin.

Rankin reported their findings on Thursday (April 14) in the 63 th meeting annual of the American Academy of Neurology in Hawaii.

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