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Descriptor English:   Dementia 
Descriptor Spanish:   Demencia 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Demência 
Synonyms English:   Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
Senile Paranoid Dementia  
Tree Number:   C10.228.140.380
F03.087.400
Definition English:   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. 
See Related English:   Tauopathies
 
History Note English:   1981(1963) 
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Record Number:   3718 
Unique Identifier:   D003704 

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