What is the difference between amnesia and dementia?

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trancenova · Answer

Well dementia is the loss of cognitive abilities and amnesia effects only memories (they are either disturbed or lost)

anonymous · Answer

Isn't there memory loss in dementia?

trancenova · Answer

There is but it also includes other symptoms, "Dementia is not merely a problem of memory. It reduces the ability to learn, reason, retain or recall past experience and there is also loss of patterns of thoughts, feelings and activities" wiki.

trancenova · Answer

Hey AR, you seem to post an awful lot of questions on here all at once! Maybe it would be a little easier if you put them in a word document in only a few posts. 

I am curious though, is it all homework lol?

anonymous · Answer

ummmm kind of looks more like an entrance exam prep questionaire.

anonymous · Answer

Yeah aster's right. it's for a med school entrance test. The thing is I study the whole chapter and note down the questions I don't get. Then I post them all at once, easier than logging in everytime I have a question =/
Sorry if it bothers you.

trancenova · Answer

Ah that makes sense :) Just a little worried that you were posting your nights homework or something. Yeah would be a bit easier than logging in everytime, not to worry.