Sentence examples for intellectual deterioration from inspiring English sources

Without plentiful DHA, we face a future of increased mental illness and intellectual deterioration.

This is followed by intellectual deterioration with paranoia and brief, jerky movements of the limbs and face or, less commonly, muscle rigidity.

Neurologic impairment was assessed by Scandinavian Stroke Scale, performance in activities of daily living by the Barthel index, and the intellectual deterioration by the Mini-Mental State Examination.

On very rare occasions, persistent infection with a mutant measles virus can cause a degenerative central nervous system disease called subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), in which there is a gradual onset of progressive behavioral and intellectual deterioration.

Although Spalding felt that he had not had any intellectual deterioration since the accident, Kathie wondered whether his unceasing rumination might not, in part, be a "cover" or "disguise" for an intellectual loss that he did not want to admit.

Wexler, a leader in the identification of the Huntington's disease gene, contends that American society is "knowledge-macho". Her mother died of the disease, which strikes in middle age, eventually causing intellectual deterioration, involuntary movements, and death.

In these dementias there is a progressive intellectual impairment that proceeds to lethargy, inactivity, and gross physical deterioration and eventually to death within a few years.

Today, almost two weeks after his infamous tweet, Musk tweeted "Death by Water," a section from T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a poem exploring the intellectual and cultural deterioration of the modern world.

NCL disease varies according to the underlying gene defect and severity of mutation, but typically includes seizures, a progressive intellectual and motor deterioration, and in children but usually not adult onset cases, visual failure.

In keeping with the trend of variations in experience, not all patients viewed intellectual and cognitive deterioration as necessarily negative, with at least one caregiver reporting that a blunted affect would aid the patient to not experience the emotional consequences of dying.

Prespecified overt neurologic outcomes were categorized as type I (clinically diagnosed stroke, transient ischemic attack, encephalopathy, or coma) or type II (deterioration of intellectual function).