My husband Mike has a rare form of dementia. It's called logopenic progressive aphasia. This starts in the parietal and temporal lobes that control language. Memory is stored in many parts of the brain and memory loss goes along with LPA. Medical experts are not sure what causes LPA but it is characterized by the buildup of the same proteins that cause Alzheimer's.
Many things can cause dementia. Some are repeated concussions, blocked blood flow to the brain, the buildup of various proteins and Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's causes 60-80% of all dementia and the cause is unknown. Alzheimer's apparently did not cause Mike's dementia, but what did, is unknown. I have some theories that I discuss in my book Descent into Dementialand, but it is a rare dementia that begins in the parietal and temporal lobes of the brain and first affects memories of language and the ability to understand language. The buildup of the same proteins that occur in Alzheimer's characterize it. And like all dementias, it gets progressively worse...
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