Dementia

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Dementia is a progressive (gradually worsening) decline of mental abilities that disturbs "cognitive" functions such as memory, thought processes, and speech as well as behavior, and movements.
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Dementia
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(dmn´sh) [Lat.,=being out of the mind], progressive deterioration of intellectual faculties resulting in apathy, confusion, and stupor. In the 17th cent.
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DEMENTIA - A slowing of the mind processes commonly demonstrated by loss of short-term memory, ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations, and emotional lability.
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Dementia is a neurological disorder that affects your ability to think, speak, reason, remember and move. While Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, many other conditions also cause these symptoms.
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Dementia may be diagnosed when two or more brain functions are impaired.
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Dementia, vascular: See Vascular dementia.
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SOME FORMS OF DEMENTIA CAN BE REVERSED -- ALZHEIMER’S CANNOT
Question: My mother, who is 80, has just been diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s disease.
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Dementia is a decline, usually gradual, in memory, thinking, problem-solving, concentration and perception.3 The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, named after the German doctor who first described it in 1907.
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Dementia
Dr Rob Hicks
About one in ten people in the UK suffer from dementia. here, you can read about some of the symptoms and how the condition can be treated.
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Dementia associated with metabolic disorders may cause reversible or irreversible confusion and changes in intellect or reasoning.
Metabolic causes of dementia include, but are not limited to:
Endocrine disorders ...
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Warning signs of dementia
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Talk to a doctor if you, a friend, or family member has been having increased difficulty with any of the following activities: ...
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Dementia is defined as a long-term change in a person's thought process. Someone with dementia can no longer learn new information or remember recently learned information.
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DEMENTIA: Chronic intellectual impairment (ie, loss of mental capacity) with organic origins that affects a person's ability to function in a social or occupational setting.
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Dementia is a common type of mental change caused by the AIDS virus. Early symptoms include slowed thinking, and poor short-term memory and concentration. You may have changes in behavior and physical coordination.
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Dementia is a problem with advancing age, and can be caused by several diseases. This article looks at the symptoms of dementia and what can be done to help.
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Dementia (loss of any or all brain functions, including movement, sensation, perception, and thought processes) -- originally mild, may progress to severe dementia
No observable mood (flat affect)
Apathy
Withdrawn behavior
Impaired memory ...
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DementiaA loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with functioning. While dementia and delirium have some of the same symptoms, dementia has a much slower onset.
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Dementia
Loss of memory and other higher functions, such as thinking or speech, lasting six months or more.
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Brain - Dementia
Heart - Heart failure, arrhythmias, enlarged heart
Kidneys - Kidney failure
Nervous system - Numbness, tingling or weakness from nerve disease ...
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SENILITY (Senile Dementia; Cerebrovascular Disease)
SYMPTOMS"Memory loss in the older years, an inability to reason properly which interferes with the home, employment, depression.
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parallel rays; parallel track; parallergic; paralogia; paraluteal cell; paralutein cell; paralysis; paralysis agitans; paralysis, bulbar; paralysis, familial periodic; paralysis, obstetric; paralyssa; paralytic; paralytical; paralytic dementia; ...
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Vascular dementia
Vascular ectasia of the colon
Vascular purpura
Vascular skin changes
Vascular spasm
Vasculitis - allergic hypersensitivity
Vasculitis - necrotizing
Vasoactive intestinal peptide-producing tumor
Vasomotor rhinitis
vCJD ...
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memantine An orally active NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptor antagonist in development for the treatment Alzheimer disease, vascular dementia, AIDS-related dementia, diabetic neuropathy, and other neurologic indications.
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He inoculated malaria into his patients with dementia paralytica, the third and final stage of syphilis when it affects the nervous system and brain; the patients not surprisingly developed a high fever; ...
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Such women might have end-stage renal disease, severe dementia, terminal cancer, or severe functional dependencies in activities of daily living.
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unexplained developmental delay or intellectual decline (suspected dementia)
learning disability and/or attentional deficit disorder (to better determine the cause) ...
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It is characterized by loss of memory and other cognitive functions. Among people aged 65 or older, it is the most common cause of dementia. Dementia is a group of symptoms marked by the gradual loss of mental function.
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blindness or visual disturbance
ataxia, unsteady gait
mental retardation with decreasing mental function
dementia (deterioration of ability to think)
seizures
abnormal increased muscle tone or spasm (myoclonus)
movement disorder (choreoathetosis) ...
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A rare, inherited disorder that occurs when copper pools in the red blood cells. May cause tremors, muscle rigidity, speech problems and dementia.
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cytomegalovirus infections of the eyes; generalized infection with Mycobacterium avium- intracellulare, or "MAI" (an organism resembling the cause of tuberculosis); and numerous neurological disorders, including progressive dementia.
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