Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Motor Neuron Disease and Alzheimer's Disease

The patient was a 71 year old man who developed muscle wasting and weakness and had electromyographic evidence of motor neuron disease. Approximately one year later he was noted to undergo a profound change in personality, and to develop social inappropriateness, and uncharacteristic use of foul or crude language. At postmortem, brain changes typical of Alzheimer's disease were found.