Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complications of AIDS is its ability to attack the nervous system. Sometimes HIV infects the brain, causing memory loss and other problems. This condition can be treated in children with AZT because the antiviral drug manages to penetrate the cellular barrier that protects the brain. In adults who develop dementia, higher doses are required and may be only partially effective...
...last story, "Beverly Home," the hero undergoes a final rehabilitation. Working at a home for the aged, he literally touches the freaks of age and dementia. Slowly recovering his own health, he embraces both the stupefied, paralyzed and immensely sad inhabitants of the "O-shaped, turquoise blue hospital" and his own dwarf-like, crippled girl friends...
More than 20,000 U.S. residents suffer from Huntington's, a fatal disease, which usually manifests during middle age. Symptoms include progressive loss of muscle control and cognitive function, often leading to dementia...
Symptoms of the degenerative brain disorder, which usually begin to appear in middle age, include a progressive loss of control over all the muscles of the body. Patients often exhibit a decline in cognitive function and sometimes dementia, and the disorder is fatal...
...treated with lithium long before anyone knew why it worked; now therapy is being fine-tuned with medications like the anticonvulsant Tegretol (carbamazepine) and drugs that ameliorate lithium's side effects. Debilitating panic attacks can be prevented with both antidepressants and benzodiazepines. Hyperactivity, addictive disorders, phobias, sleep disturbances, even dementia -- all are succumbing to the new science of the brain...