"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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2021 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 11 | 0 | 11 |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2025 | 12 | 1 | 13 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Dementia" by people in Profiles.
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GLP-1RA comparative effectiveness against dementia onset relative to other antidiabetic medications in a large, multi-site cohort of patients with type 2 diabetes. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Sep; 21(9):e70621.
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Machine learning diagnosis of cognitive impairment and dementia in harmonized older adult cohorts. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Aug; 21(8):e70508.
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Identifying lifestyle risk factors that discriminate memory trajectories: Differential findings across racial and ethnic groups in older adults. Neurobiol Aging. 2025 Oct; 154:84-91.
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Insurance type and risk of dementia diagnosis after traumatic brain injury: a study of 267 473 US civilians from 2000 to 2022. BMJ Open. 2025 Jul 01; 15(7):e095893.
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Statin Initiation and Dementia Incidence in a Large Health Care System From 1997 to 2020: A Target Trial Emulation Study. Neurology. 2025 Jul 22; 105(2):e213855.
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A Screening Protocol to Identify Older Adults With Dementia and Their Family Caregivers in Northern Vietnam. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2025 Nov; 33(11):1134-1144.
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Systematic Identification of Caregivers of Patients Living With Dementia in the Electronic Health Record: Known Contacts and Natural Language Processing Cohort Study. J Med Internet Res. 2025 May 05; 27:e63654.
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Increasing representation of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities in aging, dementia, and caregiving research: An update from the CARE registry. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 Apr; 21(4):e70144.
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Do type, timing and duration of life course non-employment differentially predict dementia risk? An application of sequence analysis. Soc Sci Med. 2025 May; 372:117976.
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Palliative Care Program for Community-Dwelling Individuals With Dementia and Caregivers: The IN-PEACE Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2025 03 18; 333(11):962-971.