alcoholic dementia


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Related to alcoholic dementia: Korsakoff's psychosis, Alcoholic Delirium

alcoholic dementia

Etymology: Ar, alkohl + L, de, away, mens, mind
a deterioration of normal cognitive and intellectual functions associated with long-term alcohol abuse.

alcoholic dementia

A form of toxic dementia in which there is loss of memory and problem-solving ability after many years of alcohol abuse.
See also: dementia
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Alcoholism is associated with extensive cognitive problems (Evert and Oscar-Berman 1995), including alcoholic dementia (Smith and Atkinson 1997).
Improvement in cognitive function, or at least the lack of a progressive cognitive deficit, is one of the major factors used to determine whether a patient has alcoholic dementia rather than AD (Smith and Atkinson 1997).
Although epidemiologic studies do not generally support an association between alcohol consumption and AD, the lack of such a relationship could reflect methodological limitations, such as the difficulty in discriminating AD cases with a history of heavy alcohol consumption from cases of alcoholic dementia.
Alcohol use and the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease

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