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Dementia and include
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 and dementia
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.
* Dementia pugilistica or " boxer's dementia " is a condition that occurs in boxers due to chronic brain trauma
Dementia is usually not associated with a change in level of consciousness, and a diagnosis of dementia requires a chronic impairment.
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 only started to be diagnosed in the mid-1990s after the discovery of alpha-synuclein staining first highlighted Lewy bodies in the cortex of post-mortem brains of a subset of dementia patients.
Bleuler successfully introduced the term schizophrenia to replace Kraepelin's term dementia praecox through his seminal study of 1911, Dementia Praecox, oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien.
Dementia resembles a normal human, naked, and surrounded by bats-covering her breasts and genitalia-and toxic mud on her hands, who inspires waves of suicidal dementia.
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.
* Dementia with Lewy bodies, progressive brain disease associated with degenerative dementia in the elderly.
* Dementia is predominantly frontal lobe in nature and of the subcortical type of dementia.
Dementia pugilistica ( DP ) is a neurodegenerative disease or dementia that may affect amateur or professional boxers as well as athletes in other sports who suffer concussions.
His book Contented Dementia has sold over 35, 000 and despite opposition of the Alzheimer's Society, it has become widely adopted by both professionals and carers managing people with dementia.
Meyer's critical role in reframing Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox disease concept into a uniquely American psychogenic republic of " reactions " is detailed in Richard Noll, American Madness: The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011 ).
A 2005 study has evidenced that a substantial amount of VRS in the substantia innominata, lentiform nucleus, and the caudate nucleus of the basal ganglia may implicate dementia due to arteriosclerotic microvascular disease, in particular Ischemic Vascular Dementia, as opposed dementia due to neurodegenerative disease, specifically Alzheimer ’ s disease and frontotemporal dementia.
Dementia with Lewy bodies ( DLB ), may or may not be part of the PD spectrum, but it is increasingly recognized as the second most common type of neurodegenerative dementia after Alzheimer's disease.

Dementia and with
* Dementia with Lewy bodies
Dementia with Lewy bodies is another fairly common cause, which again may occur alongside either or both of the other causes.
* Dementia with Lewy bodies
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.
Dementia with Lewy bodies overlaps clinically with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but is more associated with the latter.
* Dementia with Lewy Bodies compared with Alzheimer's
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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.
Antagonizing the NMDA receptor with the Drug Memantine ( Namenda ( R )) has shown some benefit in treating Alzheimer's Dementia.
Cortical Lewy bodies are a distinguishing feature of Dementia with Lewy bodies ( DLB ) and may occasionally be seen in ballooned neurons characteristic of Pick's disease and corticobasal degeneration, as well as in patients with other tauopathies.
They are a feature of α-synucleinopathies such as Dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease and multiple system atrophy ( MSA ), and are found in the CA2-3 region of the hippocampus in Alzheimer's disease.
* GeneReview / NIH / UW entry on Frontotemporal Dementia with Parkinsonism-17

Dementia and Lewy
* In the Japanese anime series Ghost Hound, psychiatrist Atsushi Hirata emails an MRI scan image of a brain to colleague neurologist Reika Ōtori, who initially diagnoses the brain in the image as showing signs of Lewy Body Dementia.
* Lewy Body Dementia Association
Lewy bodies are abnormal aggregates of protein that develop inside nerve cells in Parkinson's disease ( PD ), Lewy Body Dementia and some other disorders.
* Lewy Body Dementia Association
People diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, narcolepsy-cataplexy syndrome, delirium tremens, Lewy Body Dementia, and temporal lobe epilepsy are more prone to complex visual hallucinations such as peduncular hallucinosis.

Dementia and bodies
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Dementia and syndrome
* Dementia pugilistica, or " punch-drunk syndrome ", caused by repetitive head injuries, for example in boxing or other contact sports
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.
< li > The hoarding symptoms are not restricted to the symptoms of another mental disorder ( e. g., hoarding due to obsessions in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, decreased energy in Major Depressive Disorder, delusions in Schizophrenia or another Psychotic Disorder, cognitive deficits in Dementia, restricted interests in Autism Spectrum Disorder, food storing in Prader – Willi syndrome ).</ li >
* Dementia pugilistica, a neurological disorder which affects some boxers, also called punch-drunk syndrome
McClintock is suffering from Dementia pugilistica or " punch drunk syndrome " -- brain damage caused by his career.

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