There are several diseases that cause dementia. Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's are just two of those.
Dementia is the same as Alzheimer's disease.
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.
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.
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.
Dementia
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Correct Answer:vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease
Dementia, or Alzheimer's
Alzheimer's Disease
The early stages she will not seem very much, if at all, as having dementia but later into the disease she will begin to show problems in cognitive function and memory.
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.
The three main irreversible causes are Alzheimer's disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and multi-infarct dementia (also called vascular dementia).