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Definitions of dementia in various dictionaries:
noun - mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain.
Madness; insanity.
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| Seen in many forms, this condition literally means "out of one's mind" in Latin |
| Cognitive deterioration, sometimes "senile" |
| This impairment of mental function can be "senile" or can be a symptom of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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| a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. |
| mental deterioration of organic or functional origin |
| A chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. |
| Deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, resulting from an organic disease or a disorder of the brain. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes. |
| Madness insanity. See Synonyms at insanity. |
| a medical condition that affects especially old people, causing the memory and other mental abilities to gradually become worse, and leading to confused behaviour: |
| a disease or condition that exists esp. among older people, and that results in the gradual loss of mental abilities, such as the ability to think, reason, and remember things |
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| Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is great enough to affect a person's daily functioning. Other common symptoms include emotional problems, difficulties with language, and a decrease in motivation. A person's consciousness is usually not affected. A dementia diagnosis requires a change from a person's usual mental functioning and a greater decline than one would expect due to aging. These diseases also have a significant effect on a person's caregivers.The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer's disease, which makes up 50% to 70% of cases. Other common types include vascular dementia (25%), Lewy body dementia (15%), and frontotemporal dementia. Less common causes include normal pressure hydrocephalus, Parkinson's disease dementia, syphilis, and CreutzfeldtJakob disease among others. More than one type of dementia may exist in the same person. A small proportion of cases run in f |