senile dementia

Noun

Meaning

dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease

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As it is possible that the memory loss of senile dementia may stem from a deficiency of 'memory peptide', obesity may result from a deficiency of either bombesin, somatostatin, cholecystokinen, gastrin, or insulin. Richard Bergland

At the same, however, the traditional cause of senile dementia – "hardening of the arteries" – now returned as a set of dementias of vascular cause (small strokes). Source: Internet

After about 1920, the beginning use of dementia for what we now understand as schizophrenia and senile dementia helped limit the word's meaning to "permanent, irreversible mental deterioration". Source: Internet

An old man diagnosed with senile dementia The symptoms of dementia vary across types and stages of the diagnosis. citation The most common affected areas include memory, visual-spatial, language, attention and problem solving. Source: Internet

Dementia in the elderly was called senile dementia or senility, and viewed as a normal and somewhat inevitable aspect of growing old, rather than as being caused by any specific diseases. Source: Internet

Otherwise, little is recorded about senile dementia in Western medical texts for nearly 1700 years. Source: Internet

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