Types of Dementia

Types of Dementia

The most common types of dementia are:

• Alzheimer's disease
• Vascular dementia (also known as multi-infarct dementia)
• Lewy body dementia
• Alcohol-Induced dementia
• Pick's disease
• Frontotemporal dementia
• Semantic dementia
• Progressive non-fluent aphasia

Some conditions can cause secondary dementia in some individuals. These are less common causes:

• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Huntington's disease
• Parkinson's disease
• HIV infection (leading to AIDS dementia complex)
• Traumatic brain injury
• Down's syndrome
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