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cognitive reserve hypothesis |
the theory that high education levels delay the clinical expression of dementia because the brain develops backup or reserve neural structures as a form of neuroplasticity |
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delirium |
a state of great mental confusion in which consciousness is clouded, attention cannot be sustained, and the stream of thought and speech is incoherent |
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dementia |
deterioration of mental faculties — memory, judgment, abstract thought, control of impulses, intellectual ability — impairs social and occupational functioning and eventually changes the personality |
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neurofibrillary tangles |
abnormal protein filaments present in the cell bodies of brain cells in patients with Alzheimer’s disease |
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paraphrenia |
schizophrenia in an older adult |
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plaques |
small, round areas composed of remnants of lost neurons and beta-amyloid, a waxy protein deposit; present in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease |
