Functional cognitive disorder: dementia’s blind spot, 2020, Stone, Edwards et al

More empire building by the FND crew.

Paywall, https://academic.oup.com/brain/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/brain/awaa224/5892366
Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1093/brain/awaa224

 

My mother has major internal inconsistency in her cognitive impairment. She knows who I am but doesn't know who I am. She knows where she lives but still wants to 'go home'. She has no idea there is an epidemic but she knows that Oxford will soon have a vaccine. And so on.

She has advanced dementia, but of no known cause. (Alzheimer's has no known cause either.)

 

So now people with Mild Cognitive Impairment or early dementia are going to be told that with CBT they can learn to remember things again, they can get back their word-finding ability, and will get back their logic and reasoning ability?

And if it doesn't work the patient will be assumed to be what? Lazy? Could remember things if they just tried harder? Will remember their vocabulary again and will speak as fluently and logically as they did when they were twenty years younger?

This is absolute rubbish!!!

 

Complete gibberish.

Chemo fog is a well-known consequence of chemotherapy. This is what it describes. It is reversible once chemotherapy ends, at least for the most part. Being reversible or not has nothing to do with "conversion disorder". It even has a known cause. So is the mental confusion that is present with nearly all illness. This is all gibberish nonsense.

Anything can be conceptualized as anything. What kind of ridiculous nonsense is this? You can conceptualize cancer as an astrological phenomenon if you want, by that standard. How is this ridiculous juvenile nonsense worthy of publication? Or funding? Or being taken seriously?

You can inject people with LPS (?) creating a sickness response and get MCI that does not "convert", whatever is meant here, to dementia. You can do the same by infecting people with the flu virus, as well as several other pathogens. So what? This isn't even clever or arguing anything, it's nothing but a nonsensical word salad by delusional people.

 

Now open access, https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/143/10/2895/5892366