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Nervous System Diseases > Central Nervous System Diseases > Brain Diseases > Dementia
Mental Disorders > Neurocognitive Disorders > Dementia

Preferred term

Dementia  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Amentia
  • Amentias

Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 1981(1963)

In other languages

  • dementia

    Finnish

  • demens
  • demenssi
  • dementia degenerativa primaria NAS
  • dementia mentis
  • dementia non specificata
  • dementia praesenilis NAS
  • dementia senilis depressiva
  • dementia senilis NAS
  • dementia senilis paranoides
  • dementoituminen
  • masennusoireinen seniili dementia
  • määrittämätön dementia
  • ospecificerad demens
  • paranoidinen seniili dementia
  • preseniili dementia
  • presenil demens UNS
  • presenil psykos UNS
  • primär degenerativ demens UNS
  • psychosis praesenilis NAS
  • psychosis senilis NAS
  • seniili dementia
  • senil demens med depressiv eller paranoid reaktion
  • senil demens UNS
  • senil psykos UNS
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön preseniili dementia
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön preseniili psykoosi
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön primaarinen degeneratiivinen dementia
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön seniili dementia
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön seniili psykoosi
  • tylsistyminen
  • Demens

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003704

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