 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 | 1 | 13 | | 2021 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2022 | 15 | 1 | 16 | | 2023 | 18 | 0 | 18 | | 2024 | 17 | 5 | 22 | | 2025 | 23 | 0 | 23 | | 2026 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dementia" by people in Profiles.
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Iveson MH, Mukherjee M, Davidson EM, Zhang H, Sherlock L, Ball EL, Mair G, Hosking A, Whalley H, Poon MTC, Wardlaw JM, Kent DM, Tobin R, Grover C, Alex B, Whiteley W. Clinically reported covert cerebrovascular disease and risk of neurological disease: a whole-population cohort of 367 988 people using natural language processing. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2026 Jun 12; 97(7):630-638.
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Kim YC, Kusmaul N, Holmes S, Lepore M, Wang J, Davie L, Rataj AC, Murray B, Corazzini K. Person-centered dementia care strategies and facilitators in low-resource long-term care: staff insights. Gerontologist. 2026 Jun 09; 66(7).
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Jarvis I, Besser L, Finlay J, Hystad P, Lane KJ, Hunter RF, James P, Jiménez MP, Nieuwenhuijsen M, van den Bosch M, Van Riper D, Lee J, Doiron D, Brook J, Adar SD, Brauer M. Urban greenspace and dementia: Measures, mechanisms, and methodological guidance. Alzheimers Dement. 2026 Jun; 22(6):e71557.
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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 May; 22(5):e71430.
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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 Apr; 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 05; 27(5):106154.
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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 02; 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 Jan; 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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