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Another Cause of Reversible Dementia: Sleep Deprivation due to Prostatism
Author(s) -
KELLY JEREMIAH,
FEIGENBAUM LAWRENCE Z.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1982.tb05062.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nocturia , prostatism , dementia , apathy , clearance , sleep (system call) , sleep deprivation , pediatrics , urinary system , circadian rhythm , disease , prostate , cancer , urology , prostate disease , computer science , operating system
A case history is presented of a patient with treatable dementia of unusual pathogenesis. Fear of urinary incontinence associated with nocturia and urgency caused the patient to deprive himself of sleep, resulting in slowed mentation and apathy that was diagnosed as chronic organic brain syndrome for approximately one year. When his benign prostatic hypertrophy was surgically corrected, the patient allowed himself normal sleep, and the “chronic brain syndrome” cleared completely.