| Descriptor English: | Dementia | ||||||
| Descriptor Spanish: |
Demencia
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| Descriptor Portuguese: | Demência | ||||||
| Descriptor French: | Démence | ||||||
| Entry term(s): |
Amentia Amentias Dementia, Familial Dementias Dementias, Familial Dementias, Senile Paranoid Familial Dementia Familial Dementias Paranoid Dementia, Senile Paranoid Dementias, Senile Senile Paranoid Dementia Senile Paranoid Dementias |
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| Tree number(s): |
C10.228.140.380 F03.615.400 |
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| RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003704 | ||||||
| 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. |
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| Allowable Qualifiers: |
BL blood CF cerebrospinal fluid CI chemically induced CL classification CO complications DG diagnostic imaging DH diet therapy DI diagnosis DT drug therapy EC economics EH ethnology EN enzymology EP epidemiology ET etiology GE genetics HI history IM immunology ME metabolism MI microbiology MO mortality NU nursing PA pathology PC prevention & control PP physiopathology PS parasitology PX psychology RH rehabilitation SU surgery TH therapy UR urine VI virology |
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| Public MeSH Note: | 1981; see DEMENTIA, SENILE 1979-91; see PSYCHOSES, SENILE 1963-78; see PSYCHOSES, PRESENILE 1963-72; see PICK DISEASE OF BRAIN 1981-91; see PICK'S DISEASE OF BRAIN 1966-80; for DEMENTIA, PRESENILE see DEMENTIA 1967-97; for DEMENTIA, SENILE see DEMENTIA 1966-97 |
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| History Note: | 1981(1963) |
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| Related: |
Tauopathies
MeSH | ||||||
| DeCS ID: | 3718 | ||||||
| Unique ID: | D003704 | ||||||
| NLM Classification: | WM 220 | ||||||
| Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
| Date Established: | 1981/01/01 | ||||||
| Date of Entry: | 1980/05/21 | ||||||
| Revision Date: | 2015/06/30 |
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PSYCHIATRY AND PSYCHOLOGY
Mental Disorders [F03]Mental Disorders
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Dementia
- Preferred
Senile Paranoid Dementia
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Familial Dementia
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| Concept UI |
M0005797 |
| 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. |
| Preferred term | Dementia |
| Entry term(s) |
Amentia Amentias Dementias |
| Concept UI |
M0334715 |
| Preferred term | Senile Paranoid Dementia |
| Entry term(s) |
Dementias, Senile Paranoid Paranoid Dementia, Senile Paranoid Dementias, Senile Senile Paranoid Dementias |
| Concept UI |
M0334716 |
| Preferred term | Familial Dementia |
| Entry term(s) |
Dementia, Familial Dementias, Familial Familial Dementias |
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