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Does dementia affect intellect?

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Yes. All types of dementia are characterized by damage to neurons in brain areas that help to encode and retrieve short-term memory. When IQ tests are given to (even mildly) demented patients, their scores are below the levels recorded premorbidly (before they had developed dementia).

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