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The observed disturbance of AMPA receptors may contribute to the neurotoxic process in other vulnerable brain regions and clinically to the development of dementia [ 35 ] . Interestingly, in a mouse model AMPA receptors in the cortex, striatum, hippocampus, and cerebellum declined by 29-50% as early as 8 weeks post-retroviral inoculation.
In addition, people with greater cognitive reserve may choose mentally stimulating leisure activities and jobs, leading to a chicken-and-egg dilemma for the interpretation of the relationship between mentally stimulating activities in adulthood and dementia risk.
Dementia is a term often used by laypersons and by medical personnel, both of which have employed the word in different ways at various times.
The diagnosis of Dementia is not made if these symptoms occur only in the presence of reduced ability to maintain or shift attention to external stimuli, as in Delirium; however, Delirium and Dementia may coexist... an underlying causative organic factor is always assumed...
Robley Dunglison in his series of medical dictionaries (1833—1903) echoes medical thinking of the time when he says of dementia in common parlance, and even in legal language, this word is synonymous with insanity...