Re: Dementia associated with infectious diseases

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LymeAngel:

Thank you for this post from Dr. Fallon's work on Lyme. I have always felt

the worst time I had with any " Dementia " , if you want to call it that, was when

I had real bad Candida.

My mind is as clear as a bell since I began using Diflucan the anti-fungal to

clear up the Candida. No more Fog.

LymeAngl@... wrote:

International Psychogeriatrics (2005), 17:Supp., S65–S77 C _ 2005

International Psychogeriatric Association

doi:10.1017/S104161020500195X Printed in the United Kingdom

The full text is available from the authors or the publisher.

Dementia associated with infectious diseases

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Osvaldo P. Almeida and Nicola T. Lautenschlager

School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western

Australia, Australia

ABSTRACT

At the turn of the last century, infectious diseases represented an important

cause of health morbidity and behavioral changes. Neurosyphilis, for example,

was relatively common at the time and often led to the development of

cognitive

impairment and dementia. With the advent of effective antibiotic treatment,

the

association between infectious diseases and dementia became increasingly less

frequent, although a resurgence of interest in this area has taken place

during

the past 15 years with the emergence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome

(AIDS) and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). This paper reviews

the most frequent infectious causes of dementia, including prion diseases,

as well as infections caused by herpes virus, human immunodeficiency virus

(HIV), toxoplasmosis, cryptococcus, cytomegalovirus, syphilis, borrelia and

cysticercosis.

Key words: cognitive impairment, prion diseases, herpes, AIDS, toxoplasmosis,

syphilis, Lyme disease,

neurocysticercosis