dementias

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of dementia.
  dementia

  noun

  a condition characterized by progressive, persistent, severe impairment of intellectual capacity, including memory loss, confusion, and emotional instability, resulting from the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.

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dementias

One of the most important possibilities raised by the findings is that ImP itself could become a target for preventing or slowing Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

While most people associate dementia with the memory loss and cognitive decline of Alzheimer’s disease, other dementias like FTD strike even deeper at the heart of human identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In turn, targeted therapies will either prevent Alzheimer’s in the first place or convert it and other progressive dementias into chronically manageable or even curable conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026

Researchers cited various medical mechanisms by which the drug could help prevent Alzheimer’s or other dementias.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 7, 2026

In benign stupor purely mental stimuli may change the whole clinical picture abruptly and with this produce a change in the intellectual functioning such as we never see in organic dementias or clouded states.

From Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by John T. (John Thompson) MacCurdy

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