Dementia

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.

Also Known As:

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

Nervous System Diseases: 14737
- Central Nervous System Diseases: 4371
  - Brain Diseases: 16141
    - Dementia: 39493
Mental Disorders: 25040
- Neurocognitive Disorders: 1532
  - Dementia: 39493

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