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Early onset dementia
Other namesYoung onset dementia
Head I (2000) by William Utermohlen, an artist diagnosed with probable Alzheimer's at the age of 61.
SpecialtyNeurology, psychiatry
SymptomsDecreased ability to think and remember, emotional problems, problems with language, decreased motivation, general decline in cognitive abilities[1] at a younger-than-average age.

Early onset dementia is dementia in which symptoms first appear before the age of 65.[2] The term favored until about 2000 was presenile dementia; young onset dementia is also used.[3]

Early onset dementia may be caused by degenerative or vascular disease, or it may be due to other causes, such as alcohol-related dementia and other inflammatory or infectious processes.[2] Early-onset Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and frontotemporal lobar degeneration are the most common forms of early onset dementia, with Alzheimer's accounting for between 30 and 40%.[2] Early onset dementia may also occur, less frequently, in the Lewy body dementias (dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia), multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease and other conditions.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WHO2022 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b c Quach C, Hommet C, Mondon K, Lauvin MA, Cazals X, Cottier JP (April 2014). "Early-onset dementias: Specific etiologies and contribution of MRI". Diagn Interv Imaging (Review). 95 (4): 377–98. doi:10.1016/j.diii.2013.07.009. PMID 24007775.
  3. ^ a b Rossor MN, Fox NC, Mummery CJ, Schott JM, Warren JD (August 2010). "The diagnosis of young-onset dementia". Lancet Neurol (Review). 9 (8): 793–806. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(10)70159-9. PMC 2947856. PMID 20650401.

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