Dementia is a syndrome (a group of related symptoms) that is associated with a progressive decline in mental functions and abilities. For example: * memory, * thinking, * language, * understanding, and * judgement. People with dementia may also have problems controlling their emotions, experience changes in their personality, and behave inappropriately in social situations. Most cases of dementia are caused by damage to the structure of the brain. See the NHS Direct related link for more info.
It is not dementia that causes brain lesions. It is the brain lesions that could have caused Dementia. Dementia Praecox was the type of dementia that involved brain lesions post mortem. You can try to read passages from the "Dementia Praecox Studies: A Journal of Psychiatry of Adolescence," (1920 Vol. 3-4 by Holmes, B.T.)
relationship between brain changes and behaviour in people with dementia
AIDS dementia is a disease that destorys the white matter of the brain
relationship between brain changes and behaviour in people with dementia
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Dementia, or Alzheimer's
Senility is an old word for dementia. Only old people can be senile, but anyone can have dementia from brain damage.
it can help lead the doctors to futher exam your brain
The root cause of multi-infarct dementia is usually small blood clots that lodge in blood vessels in the brain, which results in the death of brain cells.
brain infractions
Frontal lobe dementia is a degenerative condition of the front part of the brain. There are several different types of damaged nerve cells found in the brain of a patient with frontal lobe dementia and two of these contain abnormal levels of tau proteins.
Vascular dementia is caused when there is a problem in the supply of blood between the heart and the brain. It is because of the clogging of the blood vessel and usually happens after a stroke.