Words similar to dementia

Example sentences for: dementia

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Many studies support the possibility of enhancing memory and other cognitive performance, or of slowing cognitive decline in older adults without dementia [9].
HIV-1 infection can cause extensive neuronal loss and clinically, a severe dementia.
Popular and medical use of dementia first associated it with senility but since World War II has linked it predominantly with the type first described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907.
One way to test this hypothesis is to compare sites with known variation in vascular risk to assess whether there is also variation in the incidence of dementia.
Additionally, longitudinal studies have found that older adults without dementia who participate in more intellectually challenging daily activities show less decline over time on various tests of cognitive performance [5].