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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.
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- Amentia
- Amentias
- Dementias
- Familial Dementia
- Senile Paranoid Dementia
- Dementia, Familial
- Dementias, Familial
- Dementias, Senile Paranoid
- Familial Dementias
- Paranoid Dementia, Senile
- Paranoid Dementias, Senile
- Senile Paranoid Dementias
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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1981(1963)
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- National Library of Medicine. Dementia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003704. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003704
- Dementia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia
- Dementia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83030