as in schizophrenia
a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life
doctors were able to treat the patient's dementia with drugs and thus allow him to function on his own
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Recent Examples of dementia
The doctor also warned of red meat potentially leading to weight gain and obesity, which can cause inflammation and in turn raise the risk of dementia.
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Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
That said, this isn’t the first research that has suggested a relationship between vitamin D and dementia risk.
—Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
The prize is around the corner, a 700 square foot, one-bedroom apartment left behind by a woman with dementia who died estranged from her heirs.
—Ben Wieder and, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
With 80% of dementia cases projected to be in the Global South by 2050, international collaboration remains crucial.
—Tarun Galagali, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2025
That said, this isn’t the first research that has suggested a relationship between vitamin D and dementia risk.
—Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 23 Jan. 2025
The prize is around the corner, a 700 square foot, one-bedroom apartment left behind by a woman with dementia who died estranged from her heirs.
—Ben Wieder and, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
With 80% of dementia cases projected to be in the Global South by 2050, international collaboration remains crucial.
—Tarun Galagali, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dementia
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She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman.—
Eric Jason Martin Krish Seenivasan Aaron Esposito Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
19 Jan. 2025
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Six months later, the FDA approved the first new drug for schizophrenia in 30 years, Cobenfy.—
Alice Park,
TIME,
24 Dec. 2024
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Closing arguments in the murder trial of Tamera Laws, 28, ended on Friday, Jan. 31, with her attorney saying she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity, KSAT reports.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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Despite the conspiracy theories, Lawrence was found not guilty by reason of insanity at his trial in April 1835 after just five minutes of jury deliberation.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
30 Jan. 2025
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Also deeply familiar is the tabloid hysteria, which has since become our universal ALL-CAPS way of communicating.—
Glynnis MacNicol,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2025
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Ellen is a more passive counterpart to Thomasin, the teenage heroine played by fellow big-eyed blonde Anya Taylor-Joy in The Witch, in that she’s also been pathologized by the strictures of her era, her psychic sensitivities interpreted by those around her as signs of hysteria or mental illness.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
22 Jan. 2025
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Amid the madness and tension of the most recent presidential-election campaign, a wild form of clickbait video started flying around the political internet.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
23 Jan. 2025
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The harsh fact is that after Oct. 7 neither Israel nor the second Trump administration are going to have tolerance for Hamas continuing their reign of madness and delusion in Gaza.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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The orders also argue that U.S. foreign assistance has contributed to global instability rather than peace.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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So safe, in fact, that an entire generation of Americans has come of age without knowing the feeling of sorrow and instability that such disasters always bring.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Dementia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dementia. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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