Dementia
Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases that cause a long-term and often gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember that is severe enough to affect... Wikipedia
- Specialty: Neurology, psychiatry
- Symptoms: Decreased ability to think and remember, emotional problems, problems with language, decreased motivation
- Usual onset: Gradual
- Duration: Long term
- Causes: Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal dementia
- Diagnostic method: Cognitive testing (mini mental state examination)
- Differential diagnosis: Delirium
- Prevention: Early education, prevent high blood pressure, prevent obesity, no smoking, social engagement
- Medication: Cholinesterase inhibitors (small benefit)
- Treatment: Supportive care
- Frequency: 46 million (2015)
- Deaths: 1.9 million (2015)
- Data source: DuckDuckGo