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Dementia is the same as Alzheimer's disease.
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What is the description for frontotemporal dementia?
Frontotemporal dementia is a form of dementia that involves the degeneration of the frontal lobe of the brain. It is similar to to Alzheimer's disease and is also known as Pick's disease. The is a disease with no known cure.
What is Lewy Disease?
Lewy Disease is a type of dementia (similar to Alzheimer's) and it has characterics of Parkinson's disease. It causes a type of mental decline.
What is luisbody dementia?
Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) is a progressive brain disease that is often mistaken for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, as they are very similar. The earliest symptoms of LBD differ from that of the latter, but will eventually end the same way. Symptoms include: dementia, hallucinations, fainting, and sleep behavior disorder.
Does Parkinson's lead to dementia?
About half the people with Parkinson's Disease end up with dementia. It is thought that Parkinson's Disease alone does not cause dementia, but other age related factors in addition to Parkinson's Disease may increase the chance of dementia developing.
Does Margaret thatcher have Alzheimer?
It is very likely that Margaret Thatcher has Alzheimer's. Most people are confused by the term dementia. Dementia is a set of symptoms and is not a disease. To have dementia symptoms, one must have an overlying disease that causes the dementia symptoms. Alzheimer's disease causes 70-80% of all cases of dementia symptoms. Other diseases such as Huntington's disease, Picks disease, Lewy Body disease, Front Temporal also causes dementia symptoms. Parkinson's disease in late stages also may cause dementia symptoms. If one were to say that a person exhibiting dementia symptoms had Alzheimer's disease, one would be right 4 out of times based on statistics alone.
What is the disease that's like dementia?
There are several diseases that cause dementia. Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's are just two of those.
What disease does allie have in the notebook?
Dementia
What condition is commonly referred to as mixed dementia?
Correct Answer:vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease
What is the common brain disease?
Dementia, or Alzheimer's
What is the medical term for dementia?
Alzheimer's Disease
A disease that can produce dementia is?
While Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, there are also many other forms, including vascular and mixed dementia. Causes of dementia are mainly produced by inflammation, disease or injury. On such events neurons may die and dementia is the result. Now, scientists believe that a combination of hereditary, environmental, lifestyle are mostly at work. The more neurons die, more intense will be the symptoms of dementia. This disease is currently being researched allover the world, and may be that within the next 10 years it will be conducted to a satisfactory solution.
Is kleptomaniac related to dementia or alzheimer's?
No I do not think so. Dementia and Alzheimer's is more similar.
