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Scientists at University College London (UCL) said a change in humour occurs in dementia patients many years before they are diagnosed.
It surveyed the friends and family of 48 patients with frontotemporal dementia and found that many sufferers laughed inappropriately at tragic events.
People with frontotemporal dementia can develop new personality traits, becoming more impulsive while struggling to deal with certain social situations.
The study, published in the Journal of Alzheimers Disease, asked patients loved ones to rate the sufferers liking for different types of comedy, ranging from slapstick to satire and inappropriate humour.
Almost all of those surveyed said they had noticed a change in the persons sense of humour in the nine years before they were diagnosed with dementia.
http://news.yahoo.com/warped-sense-of-humour-could-be-an-early-sign-of-085643501.html
annabanana
(52,791 posts)DOOMED
ret5hd
(20,518 posts)flamingdem
(39,321 posts).. if it's the Republican Party
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)BUT ive got a solution and the whole family in on it.
I lose time, don't recognize anyone, think I'm in the wrong place..."dad...it's ok Dad...you managed a quantum leap on your own timeline, breath".
I'LL BE FINE!
Now...lamenting the 'future'....different story
Codeine
(25,586 posts)it's always been fucked-up.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)I refuse to give up Far Side..I don't care what they say!
polly7
(20,582 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)that just about everyone around me was nutty as a fruitcake. (Not to disparage fruitcakes)
LiberalArkie
(15,728 posts)"Idiocracy" is a future study of the American white male?
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 10, 2015, 04:46 PM - Edit history (4)
when I described the Easter outfit I'd been issued as "making me look five years younger."
rocktivity
P.S. There's a DU-er here who has posted about having this condition. Would letting him/her know about this be an example of warped humor, or just being mean?
GliderGuider
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Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)Marta says the way I laugh changed 10 years ago or so.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)or what you laughed ABOUT???
rocktivity
Omaha Steve
(99,708 posts)I didn't notice it.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)I'm DOOMED!!!
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)A lot of people thought George Carlin was strange but he had no equal in comedy.