dementia symptoms In young adults (up to 40 twelvemonths of age) who were previously of normal intelligence, it is real rare to develop dementia without other characteristics of neurological disease, or without features of disease elsewhere in the body. Most cases of progressive cognitive mental disorder in this age group are got by psychiatric illness , dementia symptoms alcoholic beverage or other drugs, or metabolic noise . notwithstanding, certain genetic disorders can cause true neurodegenerative dementedness at this age . these include familial Alzheimer's disease, SCA17 (dominant heritage) ; adrenoleukodystrophy (X linked) ; Gaucher's disease type 3, metachromatic leukodystrophy, Niemann-Pick disease type C, pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration, Tay-Sachs disease and Wilson's disease (all recessive allele). Wilson's disease is particularly significant since cognition can meliorate with treatment . dementia symptoms
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