Dementia pugilistica (DP) is a neurodegenerative disease with features of dementia that may affect amateur or professional boxers, wrestlers as well as athletes in other sports who suffer concussions. A variant of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) it is also called chronic boxer`s encephalopathy, traumatic boxer’s encephalopathy, boxer`s .....
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dē-men′shē-ă Synonyms: boxer's dementia
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dementia pugilistica, boxer's dementia, punch-drunk syndrome 1. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (any degenerative disease of the brain). A syndrome due to cumulative head blows absorbed in the boxing ring, characterized by general slowing of mental function, occasional bouts of confusion, and scattered memory loss. It may progress to the more ser...
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