"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.
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
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C10.228.140.380 F03.615.400
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| 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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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.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1993 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 1994 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 1995 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 1996 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 1997 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2001 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2007 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2012 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2014 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 2021 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dementia" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on neuropsychiatric symptoms and antipsychotic prescribing for people with dementia in nursing home settings. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2023 01; 38(1):e5878.
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Optimal Emergency Department Care Practices for Persons Living With Dementia: A Scoping Review. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2022 08; 23(8):1314.e1-1314.e29.
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[HAND: HIV-associated dementia in a late presenter]. MMW Fortschr Med. 2022 06; 164(Suppl 2):63-65.
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Role of the Heart in Dementia Etiology in the Absence of Atrial Fibrillation or Stroke. JAMA. 2022 03 22; 327(12):1133-1134.
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Mid-life epigenetic age, neuroimaging brain age, and cognitive function: coronary artery risk development in young adults (CARDIA) study. Aging (Albany NY). 2022 02 27; 14(4):1691-1712.
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Impact of mean blood pressure and blood pressure variability after diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and risk of dementia. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2021 12; 23(12):2124-2128.
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Increased Blood Pressure Variability and the Risk of Probable Dementia or Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Post Hoc Analysis of the SPRINT MIND Trial. J Am Heart Assoc. 2021 09 21; 10(18):e022206.
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Aortic valve replacement among patients with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2021 12; 69(12):3468-3475.
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings Among Individuals With Olfactory and Cognitive Impairment. Laryngoscope. 2022 01; 132(1):177-187.
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Hispanic Ethnicity and Risk of Incident Cognitive Impairment in Relation to Systolic Blood Pressure. Hypertension. 2021 11; 78(5):1665-1666.