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Can you please tell me how presenile dementia compared with amnesia and delirium differ?
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Different focus: Presenile dementia is early memory and other higher cogn process loss. Amnesia is only memeory based losses(several types), and delerium is a clouding of all cogn processes, more confusion-like sx and typically more acute and often toxin/metabolic related-and is an emergency.
Answered 5/12/2016
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