What is pseudody?

pseudementism is a term created in the early 1960s to describe the situation in older people who seem to suffer from dementia, but in fact suffer from depression that causes symptoms of similar dementia. These symptoms, such as obvious memory loss or failure adequately, may take care of themselves, can manifest themselves in parallel with the symptoms of depression, and one may seem confused or in common tests that evaluate dementia, unable to answer many questions, except words: "I don't know." It is important to consider pseudization as a real disease and not something that a person has "falsified". It is really depression that fancy as conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, although this was not stated in diagnostic and statistical manuals since the mid -90s.

The symptoms of this disease are similar to the symptoms of real dementia and may include evidence of memory loss, poor care of themselves, confusion and concentration of difficulties. The differences with a characteristic feature are generally tklobouk with a person may seem ePowerfully depressed, heartless, sad and hopeless. Other symptoms of depression, such as chronic pain or main changes in sleep habits, could be present.

There are two approaches to treatment to this disease. One is to give antidepressants. If people do not respond to them, electroconvulsive therapies can be tested. The second treatment is usually not a good first choice, as this can lead to memory loss.

The good news of pseudelement is most people to respond to antidepressant treatment and the symptoms of dementia can be completely reversed if people are sufficiently treated for depression. Because they are usually older people who develop pseudemented, caution must be accepted when prescribing drugs. For example, the use of most antipsychotic drugs such as Seroquel® (Quetiapin) would not be considered a viable treatment in the elderly, but it turned out to be a valuable complementaryou therapy in younger people.

Most antipsychotics were associated with a higher degree of sudden death in seniors. Organizations such as US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) give warnings against a black box and strongly recommend that they are not used in older populations. In most cases, depression without these drugs is perverted and can be adequately treated with antidepressants.

There is a great interest in conditions such as pseudodement, because depression is sometimes considered to be the forerunner of real dementia. Some doctors, even if they recognize the strong difference between the two conditions, indicate that there may be unknown connections between these two diseases. Some specialists assumed that undiagnosed depression in later years could cause a greater predisposition for real dementia, even if it risk the development of pseudementation. Possible timely response to the treatment of depression avoids both conditions.