Dementia

"Dementia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An acquired organic mental disorder with loss of intellectual abilities of sufficient severity to interfere with social or occupational functioning. The dysfunction is multifaceted and involves memory, behavior, personality, judgment, attention, spatial relations, language, abstract thought, and other executive functions. The intellectual decline is usually progressive, and initially spares the level of consciousness.

Descriptor ID	D003704
MeSH Number(s)	C10.228.140.380 F03.615.400
Concept/Terms	Dementia Dementia Dementias Amentia Amentias Senile Paranoid Dementia Senile Paranoid Dementia Dementias, Senile Paranoid Paranoid Dementia, Senile Paranoid Dementias, Senile Senile Paranoid Dementias Familial Dementia Familial Dementia Dementia, Familial Dementias, Familial Familial Dementias

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Diseases [C]
Nervous System Diseases [C10]
Central Nervous System Diseases [C10.228]
Brain Diseases [C10.228.140]
Dementia [C10.228.140.380]
Psychiatry and Psychology [F]
Mental Disorders [F03]
Neurocognitive Disorders [F03.615]
Dementia [F03.615.400]

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Bar chart showing 218 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 15 publications in 2019 and 2024

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	4	0	4
1998	2	0	2
1999	1	0	1
2000	2	0	2
2002	4	0	4
2003	3	0	3
2004	1	0	1
2005	5	1	6
2006	3	0	3
2007	8	3	11
2008	5	1	6
2009	5	0	5
2010	5	0	5
2011	7	2	9
2012	6	0	6
2013	3	2	5
2014	10	2	12
2015	9	0	9
2016	7	4	11
2017	10	2	12
2018	10	1	11
2019	11	4	15
2020	8	0	8
2021	9	0	9
2022	13	0	13
2023	12	0	12
2024	12	3	15
2025	11	0	11
2026	7	0	7

Below are the most recent publications written about "Dementia" by people in Profiles.

Bochanis A, Rumbut J, Alcusky M, Tjia J. Trajectories of Medication Use Prior to Death in US Nursing Home Residents With Dementia. J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2026 Aug; 27(8):106330.

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Park KY, Nam GE, Han K, Jung JH, Yoo JE, Lee CW, Kang SH, Kim CK, Shin DW. Association between blood pressure and risk of ischemic stroke among individuals with dementia: A nationwide cohort study. Hypertens Res. 2026 Aug; 49(8):2307-2317.

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Liang S, Lapane KL, Ott BR, Tjia J, Baek J, Yuan Y, Alcusky M. Antidepressant Use Among US Nursing Home Residents With Dementia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2026 Jul; 74(7):1998-2010.

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Ye Z, Zai A, Wang B, Bennett A, Guilarte-Walker YG, Wong K, Zai AH, Erban S, Lin H. Leveraging routine clinical data for dementia risk prediction using machine learning. J Alzheimers Dis. 2026 06; 111(4):1516-1526.

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Frank B, Gurnani A, Hurley L, Guan C, Andersen SL, Devine SA, O'Connor MK, Budson A, Liu C, Lin H, Auerbach S, Liu Y, Libon DJ, Price CC, Farrer L, Mez J, Ang A, Au R. Psychometric modeling of Boston process approach data for dementia prediction in the Framingham Heart Study. J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2026 Mar; 32(3):243-254.

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O'Connor MK, Shirk SD, McLaren JE, Nguyen AH, Pugh K, Sullivan MA, Metcalf EE, Harrington S, Moo LR. A Telehealth-Adapted Dementia Caregiver Skills Training Intervention (TeleCARE): Single-Arm Pre-Post Intervention Study. JMIR Aging. 2026 Mar 12; 9:e81256.

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Chary AN, Bhananker AR, Franks R, Bowman J, Haimovich AD, Martell V, Schoenfeld EM, Gettel CJ, Liu SW, Ouchi K, Kennedy M, Naik A, Shah MN. Disposition at Equipoise: A Qualitative Study of Emergency Physicians' Decision-Making About Hospitalizing People With Dementia. Acad Emerg Med. 2026 03; 33(3):e70272.

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Deng H, Lee TA, Gaber CE, Kim K, Crawford SY, Bayliss EA, Singh S, Young JG, Toh S, Li X. Treatment patterns of symptomatic treatments for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. BMC Geriatr. 2025 Dec 06; 26(1):39.

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Gordon S, Lee JS, Scott TM, Bhupathiraju S, Ordovas J, Kelly RS, Bhadelia R, Koo BB, Bigornia S, Tucker KL, Palacios N. Metabolites and MRI-derived markers of dementia risk in a Puerto Rican cohort. Metabolomics. 2025 Nov 13; 21(6):161.

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George GC, Keller SA, Abner E, Adar S, Alosco ML, Apostolova LG, Bakulski K, Barnes LL, Bateman JR, Batterman S, Beach TG, Bendlin BB, Bennett DA, Betthauser TJ, Brewer J, Buckingham W, Carri?n CI, Chodosh J, Craft S, Croff R, Fabio A, Farias ST, Feldman EL, Goldstein F, Goutman SA, Green-Harris G, Henderson V, Karikari TK, Kofler J, Kucharska-Newton A, Lamar M, Lanata S, Lepping RJ, Lingler J, Lockhart S, Mahnken J, Marsh K, Mathew J, Mecca AP, Meyer O, Miller B, Morris J, Neugroschl J, O'Connor MK, Paulson H, Perrin RJ, Pettigrew C, Pierce A, Powell WR, Pyarajan S, Raji CA, Reiman E, Risacher S, Rissman R, Espinosa PR, Sano M, Saykin AJ, Serrano GE, Singh V, Soldan A, Sultzer D, van Dyck CH, Whitmer R, Wisniewski T, Woltjer R, Yu M, Zhu CW, Kind AJH. The Neighborhoods Study: Examining the social exposome in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Alzheimers Dement. 2025 11; 21(11):e70810.

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