Dementia
Synonyms
Amentia
Amentias
Dementia, Familial
Dementias
Dementias, Familial
Dementias, Senile Paranoid
Familial Dementia
Familial Dementias
Paranoid Dementia, Senile
Paranoid Dementias, Senile
Senile Paranoid Dementia
Senile Paranoid Dementias
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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