Dementia*
Dementia*: Excerpt from A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
Degenerative diseases
Alzheimer's disease
Cerebral arteriosclerosis, multiple cerebrovascular
accidents
Pick's disease (frontal temporal dementia)
Parkinson's disease
Korsakoff's psychosis
Demyelinating disease [e.g., multiple sclerosis, Schilder's disease (diffuse cerebral sclerosis)]
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Progressive supranuclear palsy (Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome)
Metabolic causes
Hypoxic encephalopathy
Hypoglycemia
Hypocalcemia (e.g., hypoparathyroidism)
Hepatocerebral degeneration (posthepatic coma)
Pernicious anemia, subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord
Heavy metal intoxication
Pellagra
Myxedema
Cushing's disease
Chronic barbiturate intoxication
Bromide intoxication
Dialysis dementia
Mitochondrial encephalopathies
Infectious causes
Brain abscess
Chronic meningoencephalitis (e.g., cryptococcosis,
neurosyphilis)
Viral encephalitis (especially herpes simplex)
AIDS
Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Intracranial tumor
Head trauma (e.g., contusion, hemorrhage, subdural hematoma)
Vasculitis
Myoclonic epilepsy
Normal-pressure hydrocephalus
Hereditary diseases
Huntington's chorea
Wilson's disease
Lipid storage diseases (e.g., Tay-Sachs, leukodystrophies)
Mucopolysaccharidoses
Pseudodementias
Depression
Hypomania
Schizophrenia
Hysteria
References
1. Sacktor NC, Mayeux R: Delirium and Dementia, p. 1. See Bibliography, 2.
2. Miller BC: Chronic Dementing Conditions, p. 2390. See Bibliography, 3.
*Deterioration of intellectual and cognitive functions with little or no disturbance of consciousness or perception.
Book Source Details
- Book Title: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis
- Author(s): Stephen N. Adler, Dianne B. Gasbarra
- Year of Publication: 1999
- Copyright Details: A Pocket Manual of Differential Diagnosis, Copyright © 1999 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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