Dementia

Dementia is an acquired clinical syndrome characterized by a progressive decline in cognitive function across one or more domains—including memory, executive function, language, visuospatial ability, and social cognition—that is severe enough to impair independent performance of daily activities Clinical manifestations typically encompass evolving deficits in recall, judgment, emotional regulation, and behavioral control that occur in the absence of delirium

Dementia is an acquired clinical syndrome characterized by a progressive decline in cognitive function across one or more domains—including memory, executive function, language, visuospatial ability, and social cognition—that is severe enough to impair independent performance of daily activities The condition is driven by diverse pathophysiologic processes resulting in neuronal damage and loss, most frequently secondary to neurodegenerative etiologies like Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body demen...

Primarily affecting the central nervous system in older adults, it is not an inevitable aspect of biological aging

Primarily affecting the central nervous system in older adults, it is not an inevitable aspect of biological aging

The condition is driven by diverse pathophysiologic processes resulting in neuronal damage and loss, most frequently secondary to neurodegenerative etiologies like Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, cerebrovascular pathology such as infarcts, or mixed underlying pathologies

The condition is driven by diverse pathophysiologic processes resulting in neuronal damage and loss, most frequently secondary to neurodegenerative etiologies like Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia, cerebrovascular pathology such as infarcts, or mixed underlying pathologies

Clinical manifestations typically encompass evolving deficits in recall, judgment, emotional regulation, and behavioral control that occur in the absence of delirium