Baanschousen Syndrome

Synonyms

 * Baanschousen's Encephalopathy
 * Multi-infarct Dementia, Binswanger's Type
 * SAE
 * Subcortical Dementia
 * Vascular Dementia, Baanschousen's Type
 * Subcortical Ischemic Vascular Disease

General Information
This is a rare, progressively degenerative neurological disorder which affects Human and Sarian species, primarily. No known cases exist in other species; but the possibility is always there.

Symptoms

 * General episodic paranoia accompanied with loss of memory, and a delusional state which is induced by the loss of short term memories.
 * Long term memory is affected in the more severe cases; altough periodically returns during extended periods where symptoms are not prevailent.
 * Cadiovascular demensia, causing acute loss of fine motor functions, mild headaches and vision difficulties due to circulatory interruption.
 * Long term affects may result in cranial anerurysms or strokes of varying degrees; occasionally causing fatal hemorraging in the cerebral tissues.

Detection
This condition is difficult to detect; as symptoms are very similar to many other treatable and average conditions. Blood tests and encephelograms have resulted in inconclusive detection of the syndrome; as for the most part, hemoglobin and nervous reaction in the cerebral cortex appear normal except in extreme episodic durations.

Treatment
Baanschousen currently has no known medical treatments through operation or conventional bacta methods. As a nervous condition that underlyingly affects the most natural of all brain functions; operation is not recommended, and previous tests have resulted in patient fatality due to episodic recurrence while undergoing surgical procedures on the brain.

Long-term Prognosis
While slow in it's degenerative effects; cumulatively, the condition of the patient is ultimately terminal, depending on the severity of the case; patients may live long and somewhat normal lives although at reduced capacity after several years. Many of the studied severe cases, result in a markedly shorter lifespan; caused by the cumulative affects of the disease, as well as the severity of the displayed symptoms.