Mania vs Dementia - What's the difference?
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Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.
Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.
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, title= (psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.
(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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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)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.}}
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English
(wikipedia dementia)Noun
(en-noun)Charles T. Ambrose
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.}}