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Overview and categorisation of a selection of different types of dementia
Sources: Kompetenzzentrum Demenz Schleswig-Holstein, DGPPN 2010 , Deutsche Alzheimer Gesellschaft, WHO 2017 pdf, WHO 2018 pdf,
Primary dementia (ca. 90% of all cases)
Neurodegenerative dementia | Alzheimer’s disease (60-70% of all cases worldwide) |
Lewy Body Dementia | |
Chorea Huntington | |
Corticobasal degeneration | |
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease | |
Frontotemporal dementia | |
Vascular dementia | Multi-infarct dementia |
Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarct and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) | |
Morbus Binswanger (Binswanger’s disease) | |
Single-infarct dementia | |
Mixed dementia | Mixed form of degenerative dementias |
Mixed form of degenerative and vascular dementias |
Secondary dementia (ca. 10% of all cases)
Deficiencies | E.g. Wernicke-Korsakow-Syndrome, lack of folic acid, lack of niacin, vitamin B12 deficiency. |
Dehydration | |
Infection | E.g. HIV-associated dementia |
Injuries of the brain or brain tumours | E.g. dementia pugilistica (= chronic traumatic encephalopathy / Boxer’s syndrome) |
Intoxication |
Originally Published | Last Updated | 07 Oct 2021 | 14 Feb 2022 |
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