Although people with hyperphagia show significantly more patterns of stereotyped behaviour than matched demented controls the prolonged period of eating does not seem to be due to a stereotypy but to a delay in the satiation mechanism. Hyperphagia typically occurs in the middle stages of the dementing illness and lasts for a mean of about three years. These studies demonstrated that subjects with dementia who are hyperphagic have a major disturbance in the mechanisms controlling satiation, hunger, food choice and satiety.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:282331 |
| Date | January 1995 |
| Creators | Keene, Janet M. |
| Contributors | Hope, Anthony R. |
| Publisher | University of Oxford |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6f7c7d1f-02fc-43f9-b67b-325968aa5d55 |
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