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dementia::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dementedness |
| Type of | insanity |
| Has types | alcoholic dementia, korsakoff's psychosis, korsakoff's syndrome, korsakov's psychosis, korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis, presenile dementia, senile dementia, alcohol amnestic disorder, senile psychosis |
Examples of dementia
dementia
Gates isn't optimistic that restoring hearing can affect the course of dementia.
From the us.cnn.com
Relationship of dementia screening tests with biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease.
From the sciencedaily.com
I don't want to play dementia or someone who is lying in bed wetting themselves.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More ambitiously, dementia is a route to explore the mysterious logic of memory.
From the telegraph.co.uk
There are several types of dementia, but the most common is Alzheimer's disease.
From the malverngazette.co.uk
Vascular dementia is the most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease.
From the mirror.co.uk
I don't teach to supplement my pension, but in the hope of staving off dementia.
From the guardian.co.uk
A total of 1,524 women were diagnosed with dementia during the follow-up period.
From the sciencedaily.com
However, it will only help caregivers who are troubled by behaviors of dementia.
From the sciencedaily.com
- Mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
- Dementia (taken from Latin, originally meaning "madness", from de- "without" + ment, the root of mens "mind") is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging. ...
- Dementia (1955) is a film directed by John Parker, also known as Daughter of Horror (USA) (recut version). The film is 56 minutes long, and is photographed in a film noir style throughout; there is no dialogue, only the narrator (Ed McMahon) speaks, against a musical backdrop.
- A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving; madness or insanity
- An acquired loss of cognitive function that may affect language, attention, memory, personality and abstract reasoning.
- The severe impairment of cognitive functions (thinking, memory and personality). Of our elderly population, 5 to 6 percent have dementia. ...
- Not a disease itself, but group of symptoms that characterize diseases and conditions; it is commonly defined as a decline in intellectual functioning that is severe enough to interfere with the ability to perform routine activities.
- Deterioration of intellectual faculties due to a disorder of the brain.
- Dementia is not a disease in and of itself; rather, it is a term used to describe a group of symptoms. It is a loss of mental processes such as memory, language, or the ability to think. The loss is significant enough to cause problems with daily functions, and becomes worse over time. ...
