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Mania vs Dementia - What's the difference?

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Mania is a related term of dementia.


As a proper noun mania

is (roman mythology) the goddess of the dead and ghosts.

As a noun dementia is

(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.

mania

English

(wikipedia mania)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
  • Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
  • (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
  • Anagrams

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    dementia

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.}}
  • Madness or insanity.
  • Derived terms

    * demented * demential * senile dementia

    See also

    * amentia * Alzheimer's disease * delirium ----