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A cognitive disorder characterized by defects in memory, aphasia, apraxia,
agnosia, and executive functioning. Various forms of dementia are recognized in
DSM-IV:
- dementia due to a general medical condition, including dementia of the
Alzheimer type; dementia vascular; HIV dementia; and dementia due to Pick’s
disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s
disease
- substance-induced persisting dementia (seen with alcohol, inhalants, and
sedatives/hypnotics/anxiolytics)
- dementia due to multiple etiologies
- dementia of unknown etiology
- dementia not otherwise specified
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