Dementia symptoms: Two types of humour ‘significantly' associated with brain decline

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satirical and absurdist comedy than patients without dementia. They concluded that humour "may be a sensitive probe of social cognitive impairment in dementia, with diagnostic, biomarker, and social implications".

However, while absurdist or satirical senses of humour were common among some dementia patients, they weren't common among all: "Altered (including frankly inappropriate) humour responses were significantly more frequent in frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia (all patients) than progressive non-fluent aphasia or Alzheimer's disease. "In the case of Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, only 40 percent of patients reported to enjoy satirical or absurdist humour; but this doesn't make the study irrelevant. READ MORE: Cancer: Popular herbal tea containing 'known cause' of cancerSo often, the earliest symptoms of dementia like in changes to the patient's personality; as the disease eats away at the brain, it eats away at what makes the person who they are.

In their description of symptoms, the NHS lists a number of neurological changes, such mood changes. Other common symptoms include:• Memory loss• Difficulty concentrating• Finding it hard to carry out familiar daily task• Struggling to follow a conversation or find the right word• Being confused about time and place.

Although these are common dementia symptoms, they aren't definitive; each form of dementia has symptoms unique to it. In common with symptoms, the causes vary from dementia to dementia.