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Early Stage/Presentation
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Fisad-e-zekr |
| Short term memory distortion |
Difficulty in remembering current happenings (coldness and dryness) |
| Relative presentation of remote memory |
Remembering past happenings (coldness and dryness) |
| Word-finding problems (mildly) |
All heard or seen things are forgotten |
| Problem in planning, judging and organizing |
- |
| Relatively preserved social behavior |
All senses are well and all things that the person hears and sees and all dreams are consistent with the external realities |
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Intermediate Stage
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Fisad-e-Fekr /Fisad-e-takhayol |
| Failure in logical, reasoning, planning and organizing activities |
All things the patient remembers are incorrect (fased) |
| Impaired remote memory |
Forgetting past happenings and remembering current memories more than past happening (coldness and wetness) |
| More serious word-finding and language problems |
Difficulty in continuous talking |
| Being distracted easily |
- |
| Unaware of the disease |
His/her thinking is confabulation |
| Inability in using appliances and dressing |
The patient asks things not deserved and is not able to do his/her intended work |
| Disturbed spatial orientation |
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| Delusions |
The patient tells and does things that are not correct |
| Visual hallucinations |
Admirable and imagines things that have not external reality |
| Emotional control deficit, anxiety |
Anxiety (hotness) |
| Inattention to appearance and hygiene |
- |
| Sleep disorders |
Too much sleep (coldness and wetness brain) /Insomnia (coldness and dryness) (12-17) |
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Late Stage
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| Severe deterioration of all cognitive modalities |
- |
| Near-mutism |
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| Urinary and bowel incontinence |
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| Myoclonus and epileptic seizures (19) |
Epilepsy and stroke (14) |
