A clinical syndrome of failing memory and impairment of other intellectual functions, usually related to obvious structural diseases of the brain, describes:
a. delirium.
b. dementia.
c. depression.
d. anxiety.
B
Dementia results from a chronic progressive deterioration of the brain that results in failing memory and impairment of other intellectual functioning.
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