When we think of dementia, symptoms like memory loss and confusion might spring to mind. And that’s completely reasonable – dementia is a condition that progressively affects memory and thinking.
But researchers think there are other parts to the picture.
People with dementia can have periods of “paradoxical lucidity”, or moments when a long-term dementia patient’s brain seems to briefly snap back to what it once was. Carers say moments like these are common.
They can last for minutes or hours and may make a dementia patient’s loved one feel as if, for a while at least, the “fog lif...
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