Dementia:重要的洛杉矶s of intellectual abilities, such as memory capacity, that is severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning. Criteria for the diagnosis ofdementiainclude impairment of attention, orientation, memory, judgment, language, motor and spatial skills, and function. By definition, dementia is not due tomajor depressionorschizophrenia.Alzheimer's diseaseis the most common cause of dementia. Other causes includeAIDS,alcoholism, brain injury,vasculardementia (damage to the blood vessels leading to the brain), dementia with Lewy bodies, brain tumors, drug toxicity, infection of brain, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,meningitis, Pick disease,syphilis, andhypothyroidism.
