Dementia Paralytic

**Paralystic dementia** is a brain disease in which a sharp impairment of a person’s motor function occurs, after which the patient cannot support his body without outside help. This condition is caused by the onset of the disease during a period of great mental and emotional stress on the patient.

In Russia, there is relatively little paralytic dementia in one form or another, but it does exist, and mainly in young people. Epidemiological data indicate that various forms of dementia are observed in approximately 5-14% of people of working age, and among patients with severe depression, the number of patients with dementia reaches 25%. In the general European population, this prevalence is around 7%.

A classic example of a paralytic form is apoplexy (or apoplectic-paralytic stroke), which occurs with epileptiform and muscle paroxysms, severe liquor hypertension and often myocardial infarction. Generalized epileptic seizures may precede apoplexy, which lasts about 3 weeks and is accompanied by persistent dementia, combined with various types of hyperkinetic seizures (“convulsive crises”). It is possible to develop varying degrees of severity of convulsive seizures simultaneously with apoplexy. Convulsions can develop independently of other manifestations of apoplexy. Let us give typical examples of the clinical picture of an attack of apoplexy dementia. Static dementia develops acutely, developing as a sharp psychomotor-mental crisis. The attacks are prolonged, characterized by pronounced motor disturbances in the form of “stupidity”, “hysteria”, and various hallucinations are characteristic. Precursors of the disease are phenomena of mental discomfort (dyslexia, parahexia, scotoma, hemianopsia, etc.). Sick people become impulsive