 Dementia
"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 F03.615.400
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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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Dementia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Dementia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2000 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2004 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2005 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2006 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2007 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2008 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2009 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2010 | 8 | 1 | 9 | | 2011 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2012 | 3 | 3 | 6 | | 2013 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2014 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2015 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2016 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2017 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2018 | 11 | 3 | 14 | | 2019 | 10 | 3 | 13 | | 2020 | 12 | 0 | 12 | | 2021 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2022 | 15 | 1 | 16 | | 2023 | 17 | 0 | 17 | | 2024 | 17 | 5 | 22 | | 2025 | 21 | 0 | 21 | | 2026 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dementia" by people in Profiles.
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Aliberti MJR, Avelino-Silva TJ, Covinsky KE, Lam K, Lee SJ, Bertola L, Ferri CP, Lima-Costa MF, Mambrini JVM, Miguel ACC, Gross AL, Suemoto CK. Undiagnosed dementia and mortality among older adults in the United States and Brazil: A cross-national cohort study. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 05; 22(5):e71430.
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Lam K, Yoon S, Bhananker AR, Lara VA, Zhang AD, Levy CR, Travers JL, Shi S, Chary AN. What makes caregiving difficult according to Reddit users. Gerontologist. 2026 04 13; 66(5).
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Yang M, Abdulsalam R, Shi Y, Fan W, Manson SM, Corrada MM, O'Connell J, Jiang L. Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and related health conditions among American Indian and Alaska Native Medicare beneficiaries. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 04; 22(4):e71385.
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Hickman SE, Lum HD, Unroe KT. Family Caregiver Perspectives on Advance Care Planning Discussions for Residents With Dementia Led by Trained Nursing Home Staff: Insights From the APPROACHES Project. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 May; 27(5):106154.
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Dutt S, Leichter D, Cobigo Y, Wolf A, Kornak J, Clark A, Russell LL, Bouzigues A, Cash DM, Bocchetta M, Olzinski M, Appleby B, Bayram E, Borroni B, Bozoki A, Butler CR, Clark D, Convery RS, Darby RR, de Mendonça A, Dickerson B, Domoto-Reilly K, Ducharme S, Ferry-Bolder E, Finger E, Foster PH, Galasko DR, Galimberti D, Gerhard A, Ghoshal N, Graff C, Graff-Radford N, Grant IM, Hales CM, Honig LS, Hsiung GY, Huey ED, Irwin D, Jiskoot LC, Kremers W, Kwan JY, Laforce R, Le Ber I, Léger GC, Levin J, Litvan I, Mackenzie IR, Masellis M, Mendez MF, Moreno F, Onyike C, Otto M, Pascual B, Pressman P, Rademakers R, Ramos EM, Ritter A, Roberson ED, Rowe JB, Sanchez-Valle R, Santana I, Seelaar H, Snyder A, Sorbi S, Synofzik M, Tartaglia MC, Tiraboschi P, van Swieten JC, Vandebergh M, Vandenberghe R, Heuer HW, Miller BL, Seeley WW, Gorno-Tempini ML, Kramer JH, Forsberg L, Kantarci K, Boeve BF, Boxer AL, Rohrer JD, Rosen HJ, Staffaroni AM. Individualized Atrophy-Based Prediction of Dementia Progression in Familial Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration With Bayesian Linear Mixed-Effects Modeling. Ann Neurol. 2026 May; 99(5):1315-1326.
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Heo RJ, Negida A, Barrett MJ, Chrenka EA, Bayram E, Kane JPM, Werner AM, Rossom RC, Wyman-Chick KA. Cholinesterase inhibitors for patients with dementia: Patterns of prescribing and disparities in treatment. J Alzheimers Dis. 2026 Feb; 109(4):1917-1924.
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Davoudi A, Dougherty RJ, Wanigatunga AA, Agrawal Y, Reed NS, Ehrlich JR, Gross AL, Schrack JA. Sensorimotor Impairment and Incident Dementia in the US Medicare Beneficiaries. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Feb; 74(2):458-469.
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Arias JJ, Nielsen KE, Bolcic-Jankovic D, Bonham LW, Campbell EG, Lah JJ, Manchester MA, Scipion CEA, Wang Y, Wolf LE, Mello MM, Yokoyama JS. Data sharing practices and experiences among Alzheimer's disease and related dementia researchers. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 01; 22(1):e71046.
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Vranceanu AM, Puttre H, Stone S, Pollak KI, Kutner JS, Ritchie CS. Developing and Testing a Program to Strengthen the Dementia Palliative Care Trial Workforce. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026 Apr; 71(4):508-516.
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Kramer ES, Johnson MN, Winslow B. Evaluation of Suspected Dementia. Am Fam Physician. 2025 12; 112(6):657-667.
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