Concept information
Preferred term
dementia
Definition
- Dementia is a neurological condition characterized by a decline in cognitive functioning or thinking skills such as memory. There are various types and causes of dementia, with the most common form being caused by Alzheimer's disease (AD). [Source: Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia; Dementia]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- AIDS dementia complex
- Alzheimer's disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome
- diffuse neurofibrillary tangles with calcification
- frontotemporal lobar degeneration
- Huntington disease
- Kluver-Bucy syndrome
- Lewy body disease
- pick disease of the brain
- pre-senile dementia
- primary progressive aphasia
- senile dementia
- vascular dementia
Belongs to group
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/dementia
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