Neurology
Case 13: A Patient with Possible Depression
CASE
You are asked to see a bus driver to consider whether he has developed a major depression. There is a history of increasingly erratic behaviour at work including several incidents of ‘road rage’ in which passenger safety was at risk. Things came to a head when he turned up for work smelling of alcohol and was suspended. There have been several ‘life events’ in the preceding year including separation from his wife and the death of his mother from dementia, for which she had been in a long‐term nursing home for 5 years. You notice that his gait is slightly erratic and he is very fidgety throughout the consultation. He does indeed score highly on the Beck depression inventory and is drinking excessively, though there is no evidence that he is intoxicated at the time of the consultation.
QUESTION 1
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What is the most likely diagnosis of his mother's dementia?