Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-mggfc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-22T15:10:51.123Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Neurological Investigation of Dementia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. C. Victoratos ,
J. A. R. Lenman  and
L. Herzberg
G. C. Victoratos*
Affiliation:
Dundee Teaching Hospitals
J. A. R. Lenman
Affiliation:
Dundee Teaching Hospitals
L. Herzberg
Affiliation:
Dundee Teaching Hospitals
*
Address for Correspondence: G. C. Victoratos, f.r.c.s., Senior Registrar in Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary

Fifty-two patients thought to be suffering from dementia when first seen as neurological out-patients were fully investigated.

Four of them were found to have tumours, whilst in five the dementia was due to a treatable cause.

Neither a long history nor an age above sixty-five precludes a dementia being due to a treatable cause.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 2 , February 1977 , pp. 131 - 133
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Adams, R. D., Fisher, C. M., Hakim, S., Ojermann, R. G. & Sweet, W. H. (1965) Symptomatic occult hydrocephalus with ‘normal’ CSF fluid pressure. New England Journal of Medicine, 273, 117.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Bull, J. (1969) Massive aneurysms at the base of the brain. Brain, 93, 535.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3 Hunter, R., Blackwood, W. & Bull, J. (1968) Three cases of subarachnoid haemorrhage presenting psychiatrically. British Medical Journal, iii, 9–15.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
4 Kiloh, L. G. (1961) Pseudo-dementia. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 37, 336–51.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
5 Marsden, C. D. & Harrison, M. J. G. (1972) Outcome of investigation of patients with presenile dementia. British Medical Journal, ii, 249–52.Google Scholar
6 Messert, B. & Braxton, B. (1974) Reappraisal of the adult occult hydrocephalus syndrome. Neurology, Minneap, 224–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
7 Olivarius, B.deF. & Röder, E. (1970) Reversible psychosis and dementia in myxoedema. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 46, 1.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
8 Riddoch, G. (1936) Progressive dementia without headaches or changes in the optic discs due to tumours of the third ventricle. Brain, 59, 225.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
9 Robinson, K. C., Kallberg, M. H. & Crowley, M. F. (1954) Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism presenting as dementia. British Medical Journal, ii, 1203.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
10 Strachan, R. W. & Henderson, J. G. (1965) Psychiatric syndromes due to avitaminosis B12 with normal blood and marrow. Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 34, 303.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.