The ancient history of dementia.
Niki PapavramidouPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2018)
The study of the ancient texts proves that dementia was distinguished from senile dementia early in history. This differentiation was manifested even with a shift in the use of specific terminology. Finally, the attempt to correlate modern medical entities with dementia-related issues results in interesting hypotheses.