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senile dementia

mental disorder

Also known as: senile brain disease

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Alzheimer disease

In mental disorder: Senile and presenile dementia
In these dementias there is a progressive intellectual impairment that proceeds to lethargy, inactivity, and gross physical deterioration and eventually to death within a few years. Presenile dementias are arbitrarily defined as those that begin in persons under age 65. In…
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