AProudLefty (05-09-2021), evince (05-09-2021)
AProudLefty (05-09-2021), evince (05-09-2021)
Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
AProudLefty (05-09-2021)
I'm afraid he must be euthanized for his own good. There is simply nothing else to be done.
Althea (05-09-2021)
The frontal lobe of the brain, which is located behind the forehead, helps control an individual’s impulses and behavior. As Pick’s disease shrinks and otherwise damages this part of the brain, the patient gradually develops a lack of social tact. They can become completely uninhibited in their behavior as they lose their sense of what is and is not inappropriate. They can become far more sexually demonstrative than they should be.
Similarly, they can start saying mean or rude things to others, as they no longer have a filter. Individuals with Pick’s disease generally begin showing symptoms in middle age. Consequently, Dr. Katherine Rankin, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, urges individuals over forty years old to see a neurologist if they start experiencing behavioral or personality changes.
As Pick’s disease worsens, the patient loses the ability to see things from another person’s point of view, resulting in a lack of empathy. Consequently, even somebody who was once known for their kindness can no longer respond appropriately to another person’s distress. Similarly, they lose the ability to read common social cues. Pick’s disease damages a brain pathway called the ventral salience network that helps individuals read emotional information and decide on the best way to respond to it. Damage to the ventral salience pathway causes individuals to lose the ability to correctly interpret somebody else’s emotions and thus empathize with them. It also impairs a patient’s ability to detect sarcasm or insincerity.
On average, a person with Pick disease lives about 7 years after the disease is diagnosed. In some people, the disease progresses to death much more rapidly. Others live 10 years or longer after onset of the disease.
Unfortunately, one of the most common and noticeable symptoms of Pick’s disease is the patient will begin to experience language and speech issues as the disease progresses. Depending on the type of frontotemporal dementia the patient has, their ability to verbalize and comprehend language can become incredibly challenging as the temporal lobes in the brain begin to change. Some signs of speech and language difficulties include a loss of vocabulary, speaking slowly, trouble finding the right words to use when speaking or writing, unable to name objects, difficulty speaking or understanding speech, and repeating words others say. They will also have weak and uncoordinated speech sounds and a decrease in the overall ability to read or write properly. Once Pick’s disease has progressed to later stages, some patients may even completely lose their ability to speak
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