"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 F03.087.400
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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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2004 | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2005 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2007 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2008 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2009 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2010 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2011 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2 | 13 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1 | 17 |
| 2020 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2023 | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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