Posting On Rationalia Could Be A Sign Of Immenant Dementia
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Posting On Rationalia Could Be A Sign Of Immenant Dementia
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34766361
Change in sense of humour 'a sign of impending dementia'
An increasingly warped sense of humour could be an early warning sign of impending dementia, say UK experts.
The University College London study involved patients with frontotemporal dementia, with the results appearing in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Questionnaires from the friends and family of the 48 patients revealed many had noticed a change in humour years before the dementia had been diagnosed.
This included laughing inappropriately at tragic events.
Experts say more studies are now needed to understand how and when changes in humour could act as a red flag for dementia.
There are many different types of dementia and frontotemporal dementia is one of the rarer ones.
The area of the brain it affects is involved with personality and behaviour, and people who develop this form of dementia can lose their inhibition, become more impulsive and struggle with social situations.
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Change in sense of humour 'a sign of impending dementia'
An increasingly warped sense of humour could be an early warning sign of impending dementia, say UK experts.
The University College London study involved patients with frontotemporal dementia, with the results appearing in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
Questionnaires from the friends and family of the 48 patients revealed many had noticed a change in humour years before the dementia had been diagnosed.
This included laughing inappropriately at tragic events.
Experts say more studies are now needed to understand how and when changes in humour could act as a red flag for dementia.
There are many different types of dementia and frontotemporal dementia is one of the rarer ones.
The area of the brain it affects is involved with personality and behaviour, and people who develop this form of dementia can lose their inhibition, become more impulsive and struggle with social situations.
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I used to find this sort of thing vaguely amusing.
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We are not amused...
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Fuck. If true, I was born demented.
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I think posting on any internet forum must show signs of many things why only dementia?
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Has anyone claimed that dementia is the only sign posting on forums could point to?
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Făkünamę wrote:imminent
thankyou. That was bugging me

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Usually someone shouts in a demented manor when I throw one of them 'mistakes' in the mix....Trinity wrote:Făkünamę wrote:imminent
thankyou. That was bugging me

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Watch your manors, lad.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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