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Dementia CausesAka: Dementia Differential Diagnosis
- See Also
- Causes of Dementia
- Alzheimer's Disease (50-60% of Dementia cases)
- Multi-infarct Dementia (15-20% of Dementia cases)
- Dementia with Lewy Bodies
- Depression or pseudodementia
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Mass lesions
- Drug toxicity or metabolic disturbance
- Infections
- Jacob-Creutzfeldt Disease
- Syphilis
- AIDS or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Opportunistic infection (e.g. Toxoplasmosis)
- Encephalitis
- Pick's Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia)
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Multiple-systems atrophy
- Parkinson's Disease
Dementia (C0497327) | |
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| Definition (MSH) | 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. |
| Definition (CSP) | loss of intellectual functions such as memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and abstract thinking while vegetative functions remain intact. |
| Concepts | Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048) |
| ICD9 | 290, 294.8 |
| MSH | D003704 |
| English | Amentia, Amentias, Dementia, Dementias |
| Spanish | demencia |
| Parent Concepts | Organic psychotic condition (C0520473), Organic brain syndrome (C0029221), Brain Diseases (C0006111), COGNITIVE/CORTICAL DISORDERS (C0549639), Delirium, Dementia, Amnestic, Cognitive Disorders (C0029227), Neurodegenerative Disorders (C0524851), [X]Dementia in other diseases classified elsewhere (C0349079) |
| Sources | AOD, COSTAR, CSP, CST, DXP, ICD9CM, LCH, MEDLINEPLUS, MSH, MTH, MTHICD9, NCI, NDFRT, OMIM, SCTSPA, SNOMEDCT Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical Language System) |
