Risk of Dementia in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

I bet your doctor has no knowledge of your risk of PTSD and thus has done nothing to prepare for that possibility. You are already at a higher risk for dementia, you'll have to DEMAND your doctor know precisely how to treat PTSD.

Your risk of dementia, has your doctor told you of this?

1. A documented 33% dementia chance post-stroke from an Australian study?   May 2012.

2. Then this study came out and seems to have a range from 17-66%. December 2013.`    

3. A 20% chance in this research.   July 2013.

4. Dementia Risk Doubled in Patients Following Stroke September 2018 

 

Maybe ecstacy? Don't listen to me, I'm not medically trained. Is your doctor sufficiently trained in stroke to get you 100% recovered? If not, s/he is not a useful stroke doctor. 

Ecstasy  has been out there for years for PTSD, hopefully your doctor knows about it. 

But wouldn't your doctor already have been doing that?

Treating PTSD With Ecstasy? You Might Have Some Questions. May 2018

Ecstasy Was Just Labelled a 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD by The FDA August 2017

You do have a 23% chance of stroke survivors getting PTSD.

 

The latest here:

Risk of Dementia in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

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Alby Elias, Christopher Rowe, Malcolm Hopwood

First Published September 10, 2020 Review Article Find in PubMed

https://doi.org/10.1177/0891988720957088

Article information

Abstract

Several studies have investigated the risk of dementia in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using a varying methodology. Epidemiological studies have found an increased risk of dementia with PTSD in Vietnam veterans as well as the general population. Laboratory studies reported the accelerated formation of β-amyloid and tau, which represent the primary pathology of Alzheimer’s dementia in animal models of PTSD. These investigations were conducted against a background of cognitive impairment and atrophy of the hippocampus and certain cortical areas in patients with PTSD. Very few studies have investigated the pathological basis in humans for the reported association of PTSD with dementia. This important gap in the literature has recently been partly addressed by very few studies that estimated the burden of β-amyloid and tau. The PET studies did not show an association between PTSD and the specific pathology of Alzheimer’s disease or signs of neurodegenerative diseases underlying other dementia syndromes. Another study demonstrated decreased plasma β-amyloid load and increased plasma β-amyloid 42/40 ratio in PTSD without PET evaluation. While PTSD is associated with an increased risk of dementia syndrome in general, there is no convincing evidence that it causes or accelerates the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease, which causes the most common type of dementia. Factors that may account for the association between PTSD and a clinical diagnosis of dementia are discussed in this review.