Dementia vs Hypomania - What's the difference?
dementia | hypomania |
(pathology) A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving.
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(medicine) A mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.
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As nouns the difference between dementia and hypomania
is that dementia is a progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving while hypomania is a mild form of mania, especially the phase of several mood disorders characterized by euphoria or hyperactivity.dementia
English
(wikipedia dementia)Noun
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Derived terms
* demented * demential * senile dementiaSee also
* amentia * Alzheimer's disease * delirium ----hypomania
English
(wikipedia hypomania)Noun
(en noun)- She was lovely beyond all others, this Jewish dervish, with her sense of space and history, her echo-box of racial memories, her gallant hypomania .