Is "dementia" the same as "mental degeneration"?

What causes this?
would this make someone in their 30's behave and think like a child?
I think I read in some book one time, that if a person did not have a "identity" by the time they were a certain age that it causes them to revert back, is this the case?
What causes "dementia"? what is it?

WHAT ARE SYMPTOMS OF IT?

yes. It is the destruction of grey brain cells that are not replaced. It is unlikely that a 30 year old man would suffer from dementia, although it has been known in Cornwall, where the aluminium content of the water was too high for a time, and young men were affected.
The reverting back you mention I assume pertains to the 'second childhood' many sufferers are said to go through. I am not sure what you mean by not having an identity by a certain time. Many people with dementia and their families who look after them find it difficult and may feel their loved one has lost their identitiy - as help is not always forthcoming and so many people are cared for admirably at home by relatives

dementia is one form of mental degeneration, all of them horrible diseases that slowly distort and kill. They are one drawback of longer life expectancies.

In autopsy's they find that peeps who had Dementia have a sort of 'Goo' over the Cells I understand.....

yes but treatable

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