Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Meeting a medical practitioner

Introductory protestations in PSP are regularly obscure and fall into these classifications: 1) side effects of disequilibrium, for example, unsteady walking or abrupt and unexplained falls without loss of awareness; 2) visual grievances, including obscured vision, challenges in turning upward or down, twofold vision, light sensitivity, smoldering eyes, or other eye inconvenience; 3) slurred speech; and 4) different mental sensitivity, for example, gradualness of thought, impeded memory, identity changes, and changes in state of mind.

7 cases of PSP, yielding crude and age-adjusted prevalences of 6.5 (95% CI 3.4–9.7) and 5.0 (95% CI 2.5–7.5) per 100 000, respectively. Seven of the 17 cases (41%) had not previously been diagnosed as PSP.