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dementia

dementia Dementia is an acquired brain-based mental disorder marked by a decline in intellectual abilities severe enough to disrupt social or work functioning.

Dementia is an acquired brain-based mental disorder marked by a decline in intellectual abilities severe enough to disrupt social or work functioning. It typically affects multiple areas such as memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, language, spatial abilities, abstract thinking, and other executive functions, usually progresses over time, and at first does not reduce consciousness.