The chemical is used as the starting point for other drugs, including nicergoline, a treatment for senile dementia.
Their home together is suffused by memories of her abusive father, her apparently senile mother and decades of accumulated hurt, guilt and denial.
Both women were said to be suffering from Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, which is characterised by such actions as compulsive hoarding of rubbish.
Perhaps he counts on the likelihood that his global audiences are too young to know differently, too old and senile to remember, or just too indifferent to have been paying attention.
This raises problems for pensions (Japan has a pay-as-you-go system) and health care (the number of people with senile dementia is set to reach 2.6m in 2015, up from 1m in 1990).
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In 2002, after the Chilean supreme court ruled that senile dementia made him unfit to face trial, he was forced to resign his Senate seat too (even senators-for-life need to be compos mentis).
The head of one remote village is reputed to be 109 years old and he says he has been trying to resign for 20 years, but that his only two surviving councillors are both senile.
Herbert Molderings, a German art historian, believes that the provenance given at the time of sale was questionable: the collection, made by a Nazi businessman, was left to his widow, only to disappear from her estate after she became senile.
The old man is gradually giving the nephew reason to believe that he is senile or crazy by the things he says or does, so that the nephew will be alarmed but not surprised when the old man appears to be stealing a car.
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