Dementia

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Contents 1 Used for 2 See for 3 Broader Terms 4 Narrower Terms 5 Related Terms 6 Scope Note 7 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

Used for

cerebral atrophy diffuse, Pick's disease

See for

presenile dementia, senile dementia

Broader Terms

organic brain syndrome

Narrower Terms

Alzheimer's disease, multiinfarct dementia

Related Terms

aging, AIDS dementia complex, psychosis, spongiform encephalopathy

Scope Note

loss of intellectual functions such as memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and abstract thinking while vegetative functions remain intact.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• Disclaimer | University of California, Irvine The UCI Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia is one of 29 Alzheimer's Disease Centers (ADCs) across the country designated and funded by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.
• Dementia is a condition of declining mental abilities, especially memory.
• NEUROLOGY 2005;65:E26-E27 2005 American Academy of Neurology Patient Page Not all dementia is Alzheimer: Dementia with Lewy bodies David Knopman, MD and Janet Jankowiak, MD Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) can be a tricky disease to understand.
• Importantly, dementia is not the inevitable consequence of aging, and most elderly can expect to remain intellectually vigorous into late old age.
• The changes may occur gradually or quickly; and how they occur may determine whether dementia is reversible or irreversible.

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