Dementia

"Dementia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

Descriptor ID	D003704
MeSH Number(s)	C10.228.140.380 F03.615.400
Concept/Terms	Dementia Dementia Dementias Amentia Amentias Senile Paranoid Dementia Senile Paranoid Dementia Dementias, Senile Paranoid Paranoid Dementia, Senile Paranoid Dementias, Senile Senile Paranoid Dementias Familial Dementia Familial Dementia Dementia, Familial Dementias, Familial Familial Dementias

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Diseases [C]
Nervous System Diseases [C10]
Central Nervous System Diseases [C10.228]
Brain Diseases [C10.228.140]
Dementia [C10.228.140.380]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Mental Disorders [F03]
Neurocognitive Disorders [F03.615]
Dementia [F03.615.400]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Dementia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Dementia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 232 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 14 publications in 2012 and 2021

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1992	1	0	1
1994	1	0	1
1995	1	1	2
1996	2	1	3
1997	11	0	11
1998	5	2	7
1999	2	0	2
2000	4	2	6
2001	4	0	4
2002	3	0	3
2003	4	1	5
2004	6	1	7
2005	10	1	11
2006	4	0	4
2007	3	2	5
2008	8	3	11
2009	12	0	12
2010	11	1	12
2011	11	1	12
2012	12	2	14
2013	8	3	11
2014	9	2	11
2015	11	2	13
2016	8	4	12
2017	5	3	8
2018	8	0	8
2019	4	4	8
2020	9	1	10
2021	14	0	14
2022	4	0	4

Below are the most recent publications written about "Dementia" by people in Profiles.

Cohen HS, Lincoln CM, Pavlik VN, Sangi-Haghpeykar H. Changes in Measures of Vestibular and Balance Function and Hippocampus Volume in Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Otol Neurotol. 2022 07 01; 43(6):e663-e670.

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Ijaz SH, Minhas AMK, Ghoneem A, Khan SU, Sharma G, Mehta NK, Kalra A, Khan SS, Warraich HJ, Michos ED, Nasir K, Virani SS, Ganatra S, Dani SS. Association of dementia with in-hospital outcomes in primary heart failure and acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2022 Jul-Aug; 73:24-31.

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Dong C, Zhou C, Fu C, Hao W, Ozaki A, Shrestha N, Virani SS, Mishra SR, Zhu D. Sex differences in the association between cardiovascular diseases and dementia subtypes: a prospective analysis of 464,616 UK Biobank participants. Biol Sex Differ. 2022 05 07; 13(1):21.

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Walker WC, O'Rourke J, Wilde EA, Pugh MJ, Kenney K, Dismuke-Greer CL, Ou Z, Presson AP, Werner JK, Kean J, Barnes D, Karmarkar A, Yaffe K, Cifu D. Clinical features of dementia cases ascertained by ICD coding in LIMBIC-CENC multicenter study of mild traumatic brain injury. Brain Inj. 2022 04 16; 36(5):644-651.

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Gal J, Katsumata Y, Zhu H, Srinivasan S, Chen J, Johnson LA, Wang WX, Golden LR, Wilcock DM, Jicha GA, Cykowski MD, Nelson PT. Apolipoprotein E Proteinopathy Is a Major Dementia-Associated Pathologic Biomarker in Individuals with or without the APOE Epsilon 4 Allele. Am J Pathol. 2022 03; 192(3):564-578.

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Masurkar PP, Chatterjee S, Sherer JT, Chen H, Johnson ML, Aparasu RR. Risk of overactive bladder associated with cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 03; 70(3):820-830.

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Jin JW, Nowakowski S, Taylor A, Medina LD, Kunik ME. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Mood and Insomnia in Persons With Dementia: A Systematic Review. Alzheimer Dis Assoc Disord. 2021 Oct-Dec 01; 35(4):366-373.

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Chary AN, Naik AD, Kennedy M. Visitor policies and health equity in emergency care of older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2022 02; 70(2):376-378.

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Ballantyne CM, Nambi V. Statins and Your Memory: "Forget" About It? J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 06 29; 77(25):3157-3159.

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Piras F, Banaj N, Porcari DE, Piras F, Spalletta G. Later life depression as risk factor for developing dementia: epidemiological evidence, predictive models, preventive strategies and future trends. Minerva Med. 2021 Aug; 112(4):456-466.

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