Besides Alzheimer’s disease, what are the other types of dementia?
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Dr. Dede Bonner answered:Do not automatically assume that a dementia diagnosis is Alzheimer’s disease. This is such a well-known household term nowadays that many people - including doctors - are biased toward making this diagnosis.
But, there are a surprising number of other dementias, including:
-Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
-Vascular dementia
-Mixed dementia
-Dementia with Lewy bodies
-Parkinson’s disease
-Frontotemporal dementia (Pick’s disease, a rare front temporal neurodegenerative -disease)Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)
-Normal-pressure hydrocephalus
-Huntington’s disease
-Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
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