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Dementia CausesAka: Dementia Differential Diagnosis

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Causes of Dementia
1. Alzheimer's Disease (50-60% of Dementia cases)
2. Multi-infarct Dementia (15-20% of Dementia cases)
3. Dementia with Lewy Bodies
4. Depression or pseudodementia
5. Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
6. Mass lesions
7. Drug toxicity or metabolic disturbance
  1. Anticholinergic Medications
  2. Vitamin B12 Deficiency
  3. Hypothyroidism
  4. Alcohol-related Dementia
  5. Wernicke's Encephalopathy
8. Infections
  1. Jacob-Creutzfeldt Disease
  2. Syphilis
  3. AIDS or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
  4. Opportunistic infection (e.g. Toxoplasmosis)
  5. Encephalitis
9. Pick's Disease (Frontotemporal Dementia)
10. Progressive supranuclear palsy
11. Multiple-systems atrophy
12. Parkinson's Disease

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