Dementia

**Dementia**

This disease is characterized by a decrease in cognitive abilities while maintaining orientation in a familiar environment and social and everyday skills. The weak-minded are mistakenly referred to as people with underdeveloped intellect. Meanwhile, dementia is always accompanied by memory loss. Moderate memory loss is not an indication for a diagnosis of dementia. Painful dementia is indicated by the occurrence of progressive memory impairment after an indefinitely long period from the onset of the disease (not earlier than one year). Developing pronounced dementia is senile, since it is registered over the age of 65 years. Organic senile dementia is caused by more diverse causes than general vascular disorders in vascular dementia of the elderly. But the occurrence of senile dementia in old age is associated with the stereotypical formation of nervous system pathology due to age-related weakening of the body’s defenses and an imbalance between the processes of excitation and inhibition of the cerebral cortex. In this case, the body’s adaptive reactions are disrupted, and the compensatory capabilities of its reserve capabilities are depleted. Behavioral disorders in senile dementia are somewhat more persistent than in vascular disease