The word dementia will eventually be replaced by “cognitive disease”

The most common causes of dementia are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia and lewy body dementia. There are also a number of very rare neurological diseases, such as Huntington's disease or rare diseases such as progressive supranuclear paralysis (PSP), corticobasal neurodegeneration (CBD), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) that can lead to dementia as well as amyloid lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Johan Sundelöf, Senior Physician, Specialist in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Reviewed by: Johan Sundelöf, Senior Physician, Specialist in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine
Updated: January 22, 2021
Published: 15 December, 2020

What is dementia?How common is dementia?Diseases of the brainAlzheimer's diseaseVascular dementiaLewy body dementiaFrontotemporal dementiaParkinson's diseaseAlcohol-induced dementia and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndromeNormal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH)Rare dementia diseasesHeredity

Brain diseases

Alzheimer's disease

Vascular dementia

Lewy body dementia

Frontotemporal dementia

Parkinson's disease

Alcohol-induced dementia and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome

Normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH)

Rare dementias

Heredity

Treatment

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