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presenile dementia

DEFINITIONS OF: presenile dementia

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n dementia with onset before the age of 65

Types:
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:
dementedness, dementia
mental deterioration of organic or functional origin
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