My mother's age is 75 yrs. Since last two days she has been speaking irrelevant words and recollecting old memories. She is having bp and taking replal h and espin at one in the morning and one in the night. Her health is ok and taking normal diet. She takes alzolam 0.25 mg sleeping pill daily before sleeping in the night. Please suggest to get normal from her senseless talk. Thanks.

Dr. Prof. Jagadeesan M.S.Psychiatrist18yrs exp

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The reason might be due to many causes. Commonest here would be a stroke involving temporal lobe, leading to aphasic speech (irrelevant), which can be confirmed by a mri scan of the brain. Second reason can be due to dementia, which happens to shrinkage of the brain affecting recent memory and which is caused/ aggravated by the sleeping pill, alprazolam. This can also be confirmed either by ct/ or mri brain scan. The third reason can be late onset psychosis, in which the scan will be normal. Kindly consult a psychiatrist for remedy. Good luck.  

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