Epilepsy and dementia | Symptoms of dementia

Epilepsy and dementia

Epilepsy is the tendency for seizures (epileptic fits) to occur. Epilepsy as a symptom of dementia is rather uncommon or rather it depends very much on the cause of the dementia. For the most common cause of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, epileptic seizures are the exception.

In the late stages, patients have occasionally experienced generalized seizures. The situation is different for vascular dementia. Due to circulatory disorders in the brain (e.g. stroke), generalized seizures occur more frequently in the course of the disease.

Tremor and aggressiveness in dementia

Dementia is a neurodegenerative disease in which the nerve cells in the brain are gradually destroyed. Since the character and personality of a person are also stored in the brain, changes of character occur as the disease progresses. Often this is characterized by distancing behavior and aggressiveness.This is often very difficult for the relatives to process.

In the end, just like forgetfulness, this must be seen as a symptom of the disease. Movement disorders, in the form of tremors, are particularly common in Parkinson’s dementia. For the other forms of dementia, tremor is not so typical.