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

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

Researchers believe programs that address several risk factors at once may offer greater benefits because Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are affected by multiple aspects of health and lifestyle.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

Hispanic older adults face a disproportionate burden of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

While most Americans believe lifestyle behaviors are very important for brain health, fewer than half strongly link these behaviors with reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s or other dementias, the group said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 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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