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You can’t see that our brain is diseased,so that we are having difficultiesfunctioning
 
DEMENTIA
by
Dr Mariam Ashraf Roll # 17October 2009HSA-Islamabad
 
 
Dementia
A progressive and largely irreversiblesyndrome , usually of a chronic or  progressive nature, in which there isdisturbance of multiple higher corticalfunctions, including memory, thinking,orientation, comprehension, calculation,learning capacity, language, and judgment.
WHO, ICD 10 version
 
 
 
At a personal level . . .
•One man describes dementia as
“the feeling of having been betrayed by his brain, ‘which somehow short-circuited onhim’.”
(Zgola, 1987, pg 1)
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