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The OED incorrectly attributes the initial use of dementia to Philippe Pinel in 1806: the word was first used in an English text in 1592 by Richard Cosin, Member of Parliament, in defense of the hanging of a conspirator against the monarchy.
Patients who had history of severe dementia or had abused psychoactive drugs and alcohol were excluded from our study.
Toxic and infectious dementias can be halted or reversed, as illustrated by the effect of penicillin on dementia paralytica , the cerebral form of neurosyphilis.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM-III-R), 1987: The essential feature of Dementia is impairment in short-and long-term memory, associated with impairment in abstract thinking, impaired judgment, other disburbances of higher cortical function, or personality changes.
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...