Definition of Dementia. Meaning of Dementia. Synonyms of Dementia

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Definition of Dementia

Dementia
Dementia De*men"ti*a, n. [L., fr. demens. See Dement.] Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.

Meaning of Dementia from wikipedia

- Dementia is a syndrome ****ociated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's...
- Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), also called frontotemporal degeneration disease or frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder, encomp****es several types of dementia involving...
- vascular dementia include subcortical vascular dementia, multi-infarct dementia, stroke-related dementia, and mixed dementia. Subcortical vascular dementia occurs...
- slowly and progressively worsens, and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events...
- dementia (LBD) is an umbrella term for two similar and common subtypes of dementia: dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD)...
- Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a type of dementia characterized by changes in sleep, behavior, cognition, movement, and regulation of automatic bodily...
- Look up dementia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dementia is a cognitive disorder. Dementia may also refer to: Dementia (1955 film), a low-budget...
- Space Dementia may refer to: "Space Dementia" (song), by Muse A fictional mental disorder, mentioned in several works: "Space Madness", a season 1 episode...
- Childhood dementia is an umbrella group of rare, mostly untreatable neurodegenerative disorders that show symptoms before the age of 18. These conditions...
- Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) is dementia that is ****ociated with Parkinson's disease (PD). Together with dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), it is...