Disease Information for Dementia
Unspecified dementia, Amentia, Amentias, dementia, Dementia (disorder), Dementia neurological, Dementias, Dementing neurological disease or syndrome, Unspecified dementia, Unspecified dementia (disorder)
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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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- Established Disease Population
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- Status/Nursing home patient/setting
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- Population/Adult-Aged Only
- Population/Elderly/Aged patient
- Population/Seventies adult
- Population/Sixties-adult
Clinical Manifestations[previous][top][next]
- Signs & Symptoms
- Aged Adult
- Facial expression dull/Dull facies
- Loss of libido,male
- Sexual disinhibition
- Sexual dysfunction
- Anorexia in Elderly
- Anorexia/Decreased appetite
- Bowel/Stool Incontinence
- Constipation in Elderly
- Dysphagia/Swallowing difficulties
- Failure to Thrive
- Staining underclothes/stool
- Weight loss in Elderly
- Tongue movements/involuntary
- Motor restlessness
- Abulia status/inert/no motivation
- Acalcula/Dyscalcula
- Akathisia
- Akinesia/poor voluntary movement
- Alexia/dyslexia
- Anomia
- Apathy/Indifference
- Apraxia/dyspraxia
- Astereognosis/Tactile agnosia
- Clumsiness/poor coordination
- CNS symptoms/signs
- Cognitive defect
- Confabulation
- Confusion/Disoriented
- Difficulty concentrating/Distraction/Forgetful
- Dysphasia/Aphasia
- Executive function loss/apathy/inertia
- Fine-motor coordination problems
- Frontal lobe signs
- Handwriting progressive decline
- Hyperactive/on exam
- Impaired judgement/signs
- Irritability/short tempered
- Jaw jerk increased
- Lint picking/at bed covers sign (carphologia)
- Memory Loss in Elderly
- Myoclonus/Myoclonic jerks on exam
- Near recall/memory deficit/defect
- Palmar-mental reflex/frontal lobe sign
- Perseveration
- Personality change
- Reversed/perverse sleep pattern/rhythm
- Rhythmic jaw movements
- Rooting reflex present
- Rooting/sucking/snout reflex present/adult
- Ruminating/jaw movements
- Scatologia
- Seizures
- Short term memory loss
- Sleep disturbance
- Tremor
- Unable to sit still/restlessness
- Visual apraxia
- Absentminded/vague
- Agitation
- Antisocial personality
- Delusions
- Depressed/discouraged/sad
- Emotional outbursts/tantrums/Hot temper
- Emotional/affective lability
- Family more concerned than patient
- Loss inhibition/Dysinhibition, social
- Low Frustration tolerance in Elderly
- Low Frustration tolerance/adult
- Mood swings/changes
- Personality changes/gradual
- Psychiatric manifestations/problems/difficulties
- Queer bizarre behavior/change
- Scattered thought process
- Short attention span
- Stress intolerance/emotional
- Volatility/wild mood swings
- Withdrawn
- Hypophonia/Strained/Quiet Voice
- Voice change/disturbance/Unusual
- Incontinent/noncognizant type
- Nocturia in Elderly
- Urinary Incontinence in Elderly
- Urine Incontinence
- Enervated/extreme acute fatigue
- Fatigue/tiredness/exhaustion
- Listlessness/lassitude
- Nervousness/excitability/hyperactive adult
- Nocturnal awakenings/events
- Personal hygiene problems/slovenly
- Restlessness/Anxiousness
- Spousal/family concern/complaint
- Thirst decreased
- Weight loss
- Inspissated secretions/mucus eye
- Signs & Symptoms
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Associated Diseases & Rule outs[previous][top][next]
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- Associated Disease & Complications
- Amnesia
- Cognitive/learning disability
- Constipation
- Convulsions (grand mal)
- Dehydration
- Dementia
- Depression
- Depression, reactive
- Hallucinations
- Hypothermia, accidental/exposure
- Neurogenic bladder/cord
- Obstipation
- Organic brain syndrome
- Paranoia reaction
- Pneumonia, recurrent
- Pneumonia/Bronchopneumonia
- Psychosis
- REM Behavior disorder/RBD
- Secondary Psychosis/Symptomatic
- Urinary tract infection
- Disease Synergy - Causes
- Synergy/General stress
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- TX/Abstinence alcohol
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