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Dementia ( taken from Latin, originally meaning " madness ", from de-" without " + ment, the root of mens " mind ") is a serious loss of global cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging.
Dementia is not a single disease, but rather a non-specific illness syndrome ( i. e., set of signs and symptoms ) in which affected areas of cognition may be memory, attention, language, and problem solving.
Dementia, though often treatable to some degree, is usually due to causes that are progressive and incurable as observed in primary progressive aphasia ( PPA ).
Dementia which begins gradually and worsens progressively over several years is usually caused by neurodegenerative disease ; that is, by conditions affecting only or primarily the neurons of the brain and causing gradual but irreversible loss of function of these cells.
Dementia with Lewy bodies is another fairly common cause, which again may occur alongside either or both of the other causes.
Dementia is much less common under 65 years of age.
* Dementia pugilistica or " boxer's dementia " is a condition that occurs in boxers due to chronic brain trauma
Near the hospital Pheasants ' Ridge is an assisted living facility which has a section for patients suffering from memory loss due to Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia.
Dementia is usually not associated with a change in level of consciousness, and a diagnosis of dementia requires a chronic impairment.
Another early pioneer of the subgenre is director Francis Ford Coppola's controversial 1963 film Dementia 13, which was rushed into production following Psycho < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s success at the box office.
H8 is referenced in the Muse song Space Dementia.
Of his many film scores, Dementia ( 1955 ), which contains no dialogue, only music, is believed by many to be his finest.
The Dementia Collaborative Research Centre ’ s ( DCRC ) purpose is to conduct research to improve diagnosis, reduce the risk of dementia and improve the quality of life of people living with dementia, their families and carers.
Dementia with Lewy bodies ( DLB ), also known under a variety of other names including Lewy body dementia, diffuse Lewy body disease, cortical Lewy body disease, and senile dementia of Lewy type, is a type of dementia closely associated with both Alzheimers and Parkinson's Diseases.
Dementia with Lewy bodies overlaps clinically with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but is more associated with the latter.
It is, however, briefly mentioned in the DSM-IV-TR ( published in 2000 ) under Dementia Due to Other General Medical Conditions.
It can be caused by adverse reactions to certain drugs or else during drug withdrawal ; however it is most often associated with the elderly and in those with neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases for example multiple system atrophy and Lewy Body Dementia.
Dementia testing is often done by way of testing the cognitive functions that are most often impaired by the disease e. g. memory, orientation, language and problem solving.
He is also President of mental health charity The Dementia Care Trust.
Sharon is co-convenor of the Parliamentary Friends of Dementia, a parliamentary friendship group that advocates for Australians living with dementia, their families and carers.
It is a double-disc set entitled Twilight Dementia.
* Dementia lacking distinctive histology ( DLDH ) is a rare entity and represents the remaining small percentage of FTD that cannot be positively diagnosed as any of the above at post-mortem.
* Dementia is predominantly frontal lobe in nature and of the subcortical type of dementia.

Dementia and memory
Dementia is known as a genetic or trauma induced disorder that erases part or all of the patient ’ s memory.
Dementia is characterized by a progressive impairment of memory and intellectual function that is severe enough to interfere with social and work skills.

Dementia and .
Dementia praecox ( a " premature dementia " or " precocious madness ") refers to a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the late teens or early adulthood.
* Noll, Richard ( 2011 ) American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox.
Dementia and hemiparesis are other problems.
On a budget of $ 40, 000 ($ 20, 000 from Corman and $ 20, 000 from another producer who wanted to buy the movie's English rights ), Coppola directed in a period of just nine days, Dementia 13, his first feature from his own original screenplay.
It was on the sets of Dementia 13 that he met his future wife Eleanor Jessie Neil.
In February 1963, Coppola married Eleanor Neil, whom he met on the set of Dementia 13.
Examples include Alzheimer's, Amnesia, Dementia, consolidation theory and the gradual slowing down of the central nervous system due to aging.
Some of the most prevalent ( and, as a consequence, most intensely researched ) include Alzheimer's Disease, Dementia, Huntington's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, and Schizophrenia.
# Dementia, during which the patient becomes unresponsive or mute over the course of six months.
Bomont Building, which was completed in 1998, and houses the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, the Iris Murdoch building, opened in 2002 for The Dementia Services Development Centre, and the Colin Bell Building, completed in 2003 for the School of Applied Social Science.
Among Stirling University's specialist research centres are: the Cancer Care Research Centre ; Scottish Network for Economic Methodology ; Institute of Aquaculture ; Centre for European Neighbourhood Studies ; Centre for Environmental History and Policy ; Stirling Media Research Institute ; Social Work Research Centre ; Centre for Social Research on Dementia ; Scottish Addiction Studies ; Scottish Network for Chronic Pain Research Centre ; Scottish Centre for Information on Language, Teaching and Research ; Centre for Lifelong Learning ; and Institute for Retail Studies.
As of March 2006, Pep resided at a nursing home in Connecticut, suffering from Dementia pugilistica, before his death on November 23, 2006.
On April 17, 2012, The Owl City song " Dementia " was released and features Hoppus, who provided vocals ( along with Adam Young ), bass, and writing to the record.
He also wrote the score for the independent film Dementia ( 1955 ) and In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ) starring Humphrey Bogart.

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It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
This man's isolation is not merely momentary, it is permanent.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.
Sherlock Holmes is not merely an individualist ; ;
Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.
In any event, whether society may have cancer, or merely a virus infection, the `` disease '', we shall find, is political, economical, social, and even medical.
Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
I would, however, like to suggest that, wrong though I may be, the tendency to see dilemmas rather than solutions is one of which I have been a victim ever since I can remember, and therefore not merely a senile phenomenon.
Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.
It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.
He says that if he were to express to you, once again, his own profound determination to go to the Mainland, and his faith that that return is feasible, he would merely sound redundant.
But Albania is merely a symptom of a real malaise between China and Russia.
To think that we can merely relinquish our economic autonomy without giving up our political or legal autonomy is wishful thinking.
But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.
`` Do you suppose his self-consciousness is characteristic of the new Negro professionals or merely of doctors in general ''??
This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.
The great majority of present-day linguists fall into one or more of a number of overlapping types: those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed, those who are personally scared of tone and tone languages generally, those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs, those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis, those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter.

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