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Dementia; Other names: Senility, [1] senile dementia Lithograph of a man diagnosed with dementia in the 1800s: Specialty: Neurology, psychiatry: Symptoms: Decreased ability to think and remember, emotional problems, problems with language, decreased motivation, general decline in cognitive abilities [2]
The first symptoms are often mistakenly attributed to aging or stress. [34] Detailed neuropsychological testing can reveal mild cognitive difficulties up to eight years before a person fulfills the clinical criteria for diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. [35] These early symptoms can affect the most complex activities of daily living. [36]
Mild cognitive impairment; Other names: Incipient dementia, isolated memory impairment, mild neurocognitive disorder: Specialty: Neurology: Symptoms: Can include memory impairments (amnestic) or cognitive problems like impaired decision making, language, or visuospatial skills (non-amnestic)
Stage 4 dementia is when a person has clear, visible signs of cognitive impairment and also exhibits personality changes, with significant dementia behaviors and severe stage 3 symptoms. A person ...
Vascular dementia; Other names: Dementia due to cerebrovascular disease; [1] Vascular cognitive impairment [2] Brain atrophy from vascular dementia: Specialty: Psychiatry, neurology Symptoms: Cognitive impairment, short-term memory loss [3] Complications: Heart disease, loss of ability to care for self and interact, pneumonia [4] Causes
Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on ...
Dementia with Lewy bodies: DM Diabetes mellitus: DMD Duchenne muscular dystrophy: DP Doss porphyria/ALA dehydratase deficiency/Plumboporphyria (the disease is known by multiple names) DPT Diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus: DRSP disease Drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae disease DS Down syndrome: DSPS Delayed sleep phase syndrome: DTs Delirium ...
Using data from a long-term U.S. survey, it found that newly diagnosed dementia patients are far more likely to act, noting that 25% of respondents sought financial help from children, compared to ...
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