alcoholic dementia meaning

Noun: alcoholic dementia

1. Dementia observed during the last stages of severe chronic alcoholism; involves loss of memory for recent events although long term memory is intact
   - alcohol amnestic disorder, Korsakoff's psychosis, Korsakoff's syndrome, Korsakov's psychosis, Korsakov's syndrome, polyneuritic psychosis

Type of: dementedness, dementia

• alcoholic:    Adjective: alcohol ...
• dementia:    Noun: dementia&nbs ...
• demency, dementia | demency | dementia | dementia demency |:    [Law]DEMENCY, DEME ...

Examples

1. describe the neurochemical and behavioral processes that are thought to underlie the development of alcoholic dementia
2. One patient with alcoholic dementia tested negative; another tested positive.
3. There is even a medical condition called alcoholic dementia.
4. I thought it was alcoholism alcoholic dementia.
5. Patients with alcoholic dementia often develop apathy, related to frontal lobe damage, that may mimic depression . and it may be difficult to differentiate between depression and alcohol dementia.