dementedness

Definitions of dementedness

1. noun

   mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
   synonyms: dementia

   types:

   Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, alcohol amnestic disorder, alcoholic dementia, polyneuritic psychosis

   dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact

   presenile dementia

   dementia with onset before the age of 65

   senile dementia, senile psychosis

   dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease

   Alzheimer's, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimers

   a progressive form of presenile dementia that is similar to senile dementia except that it usually starts in the 40s or 50s; first symptoms are impaired memory which is followed by impaired thought and speech and finally complete helplessness

   Pick's disease

   a progressive form of presenile dementia found most often in middle-aged and elderly women and characterized by degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes with loss of intellectual ability and transitory aphasia

   type of:

   insanity

   relatively permanent disorder of the mind