Dementia

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Is a:
  • Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction
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.
Synonyms:
  • Amentia
  • Amentias
  • Degeneration, Frontotemporal Lobar
  • Degenerations, Frontotemporal Lobar
  • Dementia, Familial
  • Dementia, Semantic
  • Dementias
  • Dementias, Familial
  • Dementias, Semantic
  • Dementias, Senile Paranoid
  • Familial Dementia
  • Familial Dementias
  • Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
  • Frontotemporal Lobar Degenerations
  • Lobar Degeneration, Frontotemporal
  • Lobar Degenerations, Frontotemporal
  • Paranoid Dementia, Senile
  • Paranoid Dementias, Senile
  • Semantic Dementia
  • Semantic Dementias
  • Senile Paranoid Dementia
  • Senile Paranoid Dementias
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