Dementia

Specialty of Psychiatry

Dementia is the progressive loss of cognitive functions. It is mainly due to brain damage. This disease causes inability to perform activities of daily living. It mainly affects memory, language (aphasia ), attention, visual skills, praxis and executive functions such as problem solving or inhibition of responses. As the disease progresses you can observe the loss of orientation and identity.

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