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Dementia (Dementias) Summary

Description: 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 Show All >>

Networked: 18504 relevant articles (895 outcomes, 3159 trials/studies) for this Disease

Key Drugs and Agents for Dementia

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Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to treatments:
  1. Memantine (Namenda) : 46 outcomes 82 studies in 281 results : FDA 12
  2. Antipsychotic Agents (Antipsychotics) : 41 outcomes 79 studies in 509 results : IBA
  3. donepezil (Aricept) : 41 outcomes 77 studies in 282 results : FDA 18 Generic
  4. rivastigmine (Exelon) : 41 outcomes 58 studies in 226 results : FDA 7 Generic
  5. Cholinesterase Inhibitors (Anticholinesterases) : 36 outcomes 68 studies in 379 results : IBA
  6. Risperidone (Risperdal Consta) : 33 outcomes 56 studies in 161 results : FDA 35 Generic
  7. Biological Markers (Surrogate Marker) : 22 outcomes 99 studies in 592 results : IBA
  8. Amyloid (Amyloid Fibrils) : 21 outcomes 106 studies in 1019 results : IBA
  9. Ginkgo biloba extract 761 (Rokan) : 20 outcomes 25 studies in 58 results : IBA
  10. Estrogens (Estrogen) : 16 outcomes 66 studies in 171 results : FDA 1
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Diseases Related to Dementia

  1. Alzheimer Disease (Alzheimer's Disease)
  2. Parkinson Disease (Parkinson's Disease)
  3. Stroke (Strokes)
  4. Vascular Dementia (Subcortical Arteriosclerotic Encephalopathy)
  5. Schizophrenia (Dementia Praecox)
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Key Therapies for Dementia

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  1. Home Nursing (Nursing, Home) : 37 outcomes 326 studies in 1419 results
  2. Activities of Daily Living (ADL) : 27 outcomes 146 studies in 1026 results
  3. Music Therapy : 14 outcomes 31 studies in 69 results
  4. Drug Therapy (Chemotherapy) : 14 outcomes 25 studies in 209 results
  5. Aftercare (After-Treatment) : 14 outcomes 5 studies in 63 results
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