What are the types of dementia?
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital answered:While Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, there are an estimated 50 or more types of dementia including:
- Vascular dementia, which is caused by brain damage from cerebrovascular or cardiovascular problems such as strokes, heart problems, and genetic diseases.
- Lewy body dementia, a progressive dementia linked to the abnormal protein present in Parkinson's disease.
- Frontotemporal dementia, in which nerve cells in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain deteriorate.
- HIV-associated dementia, which occurs in people with HIV.
- Huntington's disease, a hereditary disorder caused by a faulty gene, which causes degeneration in many regions of the brain and spinal cord.
- Dementia pugilistica, which results from repeated head trauma.
- Corticobasal degeneration, a progressive disorder linked to the accumulation of an abnormal protein in the brain.
- Secondary dementias, dementia that occurs in patients with disorders that primarily affect movement – Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease), olivopontocerebellar atrophy, Wilson's disease, and normal pressure hydrocephalus.
While Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of dementia, there are an estimated 50 or more types of dementia including: - Vascular dementia, which is caused by brain damage from cerebrovascular or cardiovascular problems such as strokes,... More
