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Dementia
Definition: An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

Synonym(s): Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration / Senile Paranoid Dementia / Amentia / Familial Dementia / Semantic Dementia / Amentias / Degeneration, Frontotemporal Lobar / Degenerations, Frontotemporal Lobar / Dementia, Familial / Dementia, Semantic / Dementias / Dementias, Familial / Dementias, Semantic / Dementias, Senile Paranoid / Familial Dementias / Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations / Lobar Degeneration, Frontotemporal / Lobar Degenerations, Frontotemporal / Paranoid Dementia, Senile / Paranoid Dementias, Senile / Semantic Dementias / Senile Paranoid Dementias

Narrow term(s):
   Dementia, Vascular    AIDS Dementia Complex    Alzheimer Disease
   Aphasia, Primary Progressive    Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome    Huntington Disease
   Kluver-Bucy Syndrome    Lewy Body Disease    Pick Disease of the Brain

See also:
Tauopathies   

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view the robot description of the site Dementia: Hope Through Research: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)www.ninds.nih.gov 22
view the HON description of the site HONcode - Dementia - WrongDiagnosis.comwww.wrongdiagnosis.com 22
view the robot description of the site MRI of Hippocampus in Incipient Alzheimer's Diseasewww.uku.fi 2
view the robot description of the site Vascular Dementia: eMedicine Psychiatrywww.emedicine.com 22
  view the HONcode description of the site HONcode - Library Newsalzheimersnswlibrary.blogspot.com  
view the robot description of the site Early Diagnosis of Dementia - February 15, 2001 - American Family Physicianwww.aafp.org 9
view the HON description of the site HONcode - GeneReviews: GRN-Related Frontotemporal Dementiawww.genetests.org 10
view the HON description of the site HONcode - Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Support and Advocacy in Western Australia - Alzheimer's Australia WA Ltdwww.alzheimers.asn.au 23
view the HON description of the site HONcode - Dementia - how to encourage healthy eating - Better Health Channel.www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au 22
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view the robot description of the site Not all dementia is Alzheimer: Dementia with Lewy bodies -- Knopman and Jankowiak 65 (12): E26 -- Neurologywww.neurology.org 5
view the HON description of the site HONcode - Alzheimers disease and dementia - myDr.com.auwww.mydr.com.au 8
view the HON description of the site HONcode - Types of Dementia www.clevelandclinic.org 2
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See also: - Tauopathies
Broader term(s): - Brain Diseases - Central Nervous System Diseases - Nervous System Diseases - Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders - Mental Disorders
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Broader term(s): - Brain Diseases
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  Medical News for "Dementia"
Vision Problems Linked to Higher Dementia Risk   (02/23/2010, Reuters Health)
Mammograms May Be Overused in Women with Dementia   (01/29/2010, Reuters Health)
Diabetes Ups Risk of Dementia for Mildly Impaired   (01/14/2010, Reuters Health)
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Broader term(s): - Brain Diseases - Central Nervous System Diseases - Nervous System Diseases - Mental Disorders
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2010 4th Congress of the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS 2010) Switzerland
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  Broader term(s):
      Psychiatry and Psychology
          Mental Disorders
              Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders 
      Diseases
          Nervous System Diseases
              Central Nervous System Diseases
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