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Encyclopedia Articles on: dementia

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    Dementia
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    DEMENTIA dimen sh Lat.,=being out of the mind...synonymous with insanity , and the term dementia praecox was used in the 19th cent. to...deterioration occurring in middle to later life. Dementia, in its contemporary usage, is an irreversible...
     
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    Bleuler, Eugen
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...term schizophrenia, formerly known as dementia praecox, and for his studies with schizophrenic...concluded that the disease was not one of dementia, a condition involving organic deterioration...Disorders (1978). See E. Bleuler Dementia Praecox (1911, tr. 1950...
     
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    Schizophrenia
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...previously considered unrelated mental diseases under the term dementia praecox. It was not until 1908, however, that an influential...incurable. Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox, emphasizing the dissociative phenomena in the mind...
     
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    Vitamin
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...many enzyme-catalyzed oxidation and reduction reactions. The deficiency state in humans causes skin disease, diarrhea, dementia, and ultimately death. The deficiency state in dogs analogous to pellagra in humans is called blacktongue disease. Lean...
     
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    Parkinson's Disease
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...rest. Movements become slow and difficult; walking degrades to a shuffle. After many years physical incapacity may occur. Dementia occurs in at least 50% of the patients; depression is also common. When drugs such as levodopa (L-Dopa) are taken orally...
     

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