Causes of Dementia

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Conditions listing medical complications: Dementia:

The following list of medical conditions have 'Dementia' or similar listed as a medical complication in our database. This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.

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List of 391 causes of Dementia

This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause of Dementia in our database from various sources.

• A ?-protein amyloidosis - Alzheimer's disease
• Aceruloplasminemia - dementia
• Acute Bokhoror - progressive dementia
• Acute intermittent porphyris
• Acute Viliuisk Encephalitis - progressive dementia
• Acute Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis - progressive dementia
• Acute Vilyuisk Encephalitis - progressive dementia
• Acute Vilyuisk Encephalomyelitis - progressive dementia
• Advanced AIDS
• Aguecheek disease - dementia
• AIDS
• AIDS Dementia Complex - dementia
• AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections - AIDS dementia complex
• Akinetic-rigid syndromes
• Alcohol drinking - loss of memory
• Alcohol Withdrawal - loss of memory
• Alcohol-Induced Disorders - dementia
• Alcohol-induced pseudo-Cushing syndrome - dementia
• Alcoholism - dementia
• Alexander Syndrome - dementia
• Alpers disease
• Alpers Syndrome - dementia
• Aluminium (dialysis related) toxicity
• Aluminium poisoning - dementia
• Aluminium toxicity - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 10 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 12 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 13 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 14 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 15 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 5 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 6 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 7 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 8 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease 9 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease type 1 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease type 2 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease type 4 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease, familial - dementia
• Alzheimer disease, familial, 1 - dementia
• Alzheimer disease, familial, type 3 - dementia
• Alzheimer's disease
• Alzheimer's disease without Neurofibrillary tangles - dementia
• Amelo-cerebro-hypohidrotic syndrome - dementia
• Amnesia - temporary memory loss
• Amyloid angiopathy - dementia
• Amyloidosis
• Amyloidosis VI - dementia
• Amyloidosis VII - dementia
• Amyloidosis, cerebroarterial, hereditary, Iowa type - progressive dementia
• Amyloidosis, cerebroarterial, hereditary, Italian type - progressive dementia
• Amyloidosis, oculoleptomeningeal - dementia
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism dementia complex of Guam
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism-dementia complex - progressive dementia
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-parkinsonism/dementia complex 2 - progressive dementia
• Angiomatosis, diffuse corticomeningeal, of Divry and Van Bogaert - progressive dementia
• Ataxia, Hereditary, Autosomal Dominant - dementia
• Atherosclerosis, premature - deafness - diabetes mellitus - photomyoclonus - nephropathy - degenerative neurologic disease - dementia
• Atherosclerosis- deafness - diabetes - epilepsy - nephropathy - dementia
• Atlantic mussel food poisoning - short-term memory loss
• Autoimmune limbic encephalitis - dementia
• Batten Disease - dementia
• Binswanger's Disease - loss of memory
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy - Dementia
• Brain - bone - fat - dementia
• Brain damage
• Brain disorders
• Brain tumor
• Breathing-related sleep disorder - poor memory
• CADASIL - dementia
• Calcification of basal ganglia with or without hypocalcemia - dementia
• Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
• Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy, Familial - dementia
• Cerebral Atrophy - dementia
• Cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, hereditary, Dutch type - dementia
• Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosus - dementia
• Cerebrovascular accident
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 1, infantile - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 10 - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 2, late infantile type - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 4
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 5 - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 6, late infantile - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 7 - progressive dementia
• Ceroid lipofuscinosis, neuronal 8 - progressive dementia
• Certain cerebellar ataxias
• Certain drugs
• Certain poisons
• Ceruloplasmin deficiency
• Chemical poisoning - Benzene - dementia
• Chemical poisoning - Camphor - dementia
• Chemical poisoning - Carbon Tetrachloride - dementia
• Chemical poisoning - Hydrogen Sulfide - dementia
• Chemical poisoning - Methanol - dementia
• Chemical poisoning - Toluene - dementia
• Chemical poisoning - Xylene - dementia
• Childhood disintegrative disorder
• Chorea-acanthocytosis syndrome
• Choreoacanthocytosis amyotrophic - dementia
• Chronic Bokhoror - dementia
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - loss of memory
• Chronic hypoglycemia
• Chronic meningitis
• Chronic Viliuisk Encephaliti - dementia
• Chronic Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis - dementia
• Chronic Vilyisk Encephalomyelitis - dementia
• Chronic Vilyuisk Encephalitis - dementia
• Classic childhood ALD - progressive dementia
• CNS tumor
• Coenzyme Q cytochrome c reductase deficiency of - dementia
• Complex 1 mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency - dementia
• Complex 2 mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency - dementia
• Corticobasal degeneration
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - dementia
• Cushing's syndrome
• Deafness - Opticoacoustic nerve atrophy - dementia - progressive dementia
• Decompression sickness
• Delirium - see also causes of delirium (similar symptoms to dementia)
• Dementia - dementia
• Dementia With Lewy Bodies - Alzheimer's-like symptoms
• Dementia, familial Danish - progressive dementia
• Dentatorubral Pallidoluysian Atrophy - dementia
• Dentatorubropallidoluysian degeneration
• Depressive episode - Poor memory
• Down syndrome - Alzheimer's disease
• Drug adverse reaction
• Drug interactions
• Dural arteriovenous fistula
• Dutch type hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis
• Dykes-Markes-Harper syndrome - dementia
• Dysphasic dementia, hereditary - dementia
• Encephalitis - sudden severe dementia
• Ependymoma - dementia
• Epilepsy, myoclonic progressive familial - dementia
• Ethanol
• Fahr's Syndrome - dementia
• Familial Alzheimer's disease - rare early-onset genetic Alzheimer's.
• Familial British dementia
• Familial chronic infantile diffuse sclerosis - dementia
• Familial Danish dementia
• Familial histiocytic reticulosis
• Familial infantile metachromatic leukodystrophy - late infantile - dementia
• Feigenbaum-Bergeron-Richardson syndrome - dementia
• Fochs-LADD - progressive dementia
• Fractured skull
• Frontal brain tumor
• Fronto-temporal dementia and Parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17) - progressive dementia
• Frontotemporal dementia - dementia
• Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease
• Giant axonal neuropathy - dementia
• Gliomatosis cerebri - dementia
• Glue sniffing
• GM1 gangliosidosis, type 2
• Guam disease - progressive dementia
• Hallervorden-Spatz disease - dementia
• HARP syndrome
• Hartnup Disease - dementia if untreated
• Hartnup's disease
• Hashimoto's encephalitis - dementia
• Haw River syndrome
• Head injury
• Heidenhain syndrome - dementia
• Herrmann syndrome - dementia
• HHV-6 encephalitis - short-term memory loss
• High fever
• HIV
• HIV-1 disease
• HIV-1, CRF01_AE - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF02_AG - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF04_ cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF05_ D/F - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF06_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF07_BC - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF08_BC - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF11_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF12_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF13_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF14_BG - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF15_01B - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF16_ A2D - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF17_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF18_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF19_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF20_BG - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF21_A2D - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF22_01A1 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF23_BG - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF24_BG - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF25_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF26_AU - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF27_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF28_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF29_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF30_0206 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF31_BC - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF32_06A1 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF33_01B - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF34_01B - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF35_AD - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF36_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF37_cpx - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF38_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF39_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF40_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF41_CD - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF42_BF - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1, CRF43_02G - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1A - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1A1 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1A2 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1A3 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1B - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1C - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1D - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1E - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1F - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1F1 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1F2 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1G - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1H - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1J - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1K - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1M - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1N - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-1O - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-2 - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-2A - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV-2B - AIDS dementia complex
• HIV/AIDS - AIDS dementia complex
• Huntington disease-like 1
• Huntington disease-like 2
• Huntington's chorea
• Huntington's disease
• Huntington's disease (Westphal variant)
• Hydrocephalus
• Hypothyroidism
• Icelandic type hereditary cerebral amyloid angiopathy
• Inflammation
• Insecticide exposure
• Intracranial abscess / granuloma
• Intracranial space-occupying lesion
• Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
• Jankovic-Rivera syndrome - dementia
• Jensen syndrome - progressive dementia
• Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma - dementia
• Kidney disease
• Kidney failure
• Kuru
• Lafora body disease
• Lafora disease - dementia
• Lead
• Lead poisoning
• Lesch-Nyhan syndrome
• Leukoencephalopathy - dementia
• Lewy body dementia
• Limbic encephalitis - dementia
• Lissauer paralysis - dementia
• Liver disease
• Liver failure
• Low-press hydrocephalus
• Lyme disease - Poor memory.
• Macrocytosis - poor memory
• Manganese poisoning
• Marchiafava-Bignami disease - dementia
• Marijuana abuse - Short term memory loss
• McLeod neuroacanthocytosis syndrome
• Melanoma - astrocytoma syndrome - dementia
• MELAS - acquired dementia
• Meningioma
• Meningitis
• Meningoencephalitis
• Menke disease
• Mercury
• Mercury poisoning
• Mesulam syndrome
• Metachromatic Leukodystrophy - dementia
• Mitochondrial diseases - dementia
• Mitochondrial encephalopathies
• Mohr-Tranebjaerg syndrome
• Morgellons Disease - short term memory loss
• Mucopolysaccharidosis III - progressive dementia
• Multi-Infarct Dementia - dementia
• Multiple sclerosis
• Myoclonus epilepsy - dementia
• Myoclonus hereditary - progressive distal muscular atrophy - dementia
• Myoclonus progressive epilepsy of Unverricht and Lundborg - dementia
• Myoclonus with epilepsy with ragged red fibers - dementia
• Myoneurogastrointestinal encephalopathy syndrome
• Myotonic dystrophy
• Myxedema
• NADH CoQ reductase, deficiency of - dementia
• Nasu-Hakola disease
• Neuroaxonal dystrophy, infantile - dementia
• Neuroferritinopathy
• Neuropathy - ataxia - retinitis pigmentosa - dementia
• Neuropathy ataxia and retinis pigmentosa - dementia
• Neurosarcoidosis - dementia
• Neuroserpin inclusion body encephalopathy, familial
• Neurosyphilis - dementia
• Niacin deficiency
• Niemann-Pick Disease, Type C
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus - dementia
• Nutritional deficiency - Dementia
• Nyssen-Van Bogaert syndrome - dementia
• Olivopontocerebellar atrophy, type V - dementia
• Opticoacoustic nerve atrophy dementia - progressive dementia
• Other causes of dementia, dementia symptoms or behavioral changes
• Ovarioleukodystrophy - progressive dementia
• Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration - dementia
• Paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis - dementia
• Paraneoplastic syndromes
• Parkinson disease 4, autosomal dominant Lewy body (PARK4) - dementia
• Parkinson disease 4, autosomal dominant, Lewy body - dementia
• Parkinson disease 9 - dementia
• Parkinson disease 9 (PARK9) - dementia
• Parkinson disease, familial, Type 1 - dementia
• Parkinson's disease
• Parkinson's disease dementia, familial - dementia
• Pediatric AIDS - AIDS dementia complex
• Pellagra
• Pernicious anemia
• Pick's disease - loss of memory
• Pick's disease of brain
• Pick's disease of the brain - dementia
• Polyglucosan body disease, adult - dementia
• Posterior fossa
• Postpartum hyperthyroidism - Loss of memory
• Postpartum hypothyroidism - poor memory
• Presenile dementia, Kraepelin type - dementia
• Prion diseases
• Progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy
• Progressive supranuclear palsy - progressive mild dementia
• Punch-drunk syndrome
• Quaternary syphilis
• Raised intracranial pressure
• Rasmussen encephalitis
• Rasmussen subacute encephalitis - dementia
• Rasmussen's Encephalitis - dementia
• Sarcoid
• Schilder's Disease - dementia
• See also causes of dementia, misdiagnosis of dementia, drugs causing dementia, and misdiagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
• Severe depression
• Sjögren syndrome, secondary - dementia
• SLE
• Spastic paraplegia 15, autosomal recessive - dementia
• Spastic paraplegia 4, autosomal dominant - dementia
• Spinocerebellar ataxia
• Spinocerebellar ataxia 12 - dementia
• Spinocerebellar ataxia 17 - dementia
• Spinocerebellar ataxia, X-linked, 4 - dementia
• Spinocerebellar ataxia, X-linked, type 4 - dementia
• Spongiform encephalopathy - dementia
• Stroke
• Subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis - progressive dementia
• Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis - progressive dementia
• Subdural hematoma
• Substance intoxication
• Substance withdrawal
• Superficial siderosis of the central nervous system - dementia
• Syphilis - dementia if untreated
• Tay Sachs - dementia
• Tertiary syphilis
• Thiamine (Vitamin B1) deficiency
• Thyroxine deficiency
• Toluene
• Tome-Brune-Fardeau syndrome - dementia
• Transthyretin amyloidosis - dementia
• Triosephosphate isomerase deficiency
• Tuberous sclerosis
• Tubulointerstitial nephritis and uveitis - dementia
• Unverricht-Lundborg syndrome
• Van Bogaert disease - dementia
• Van Bogaert's disease - dementia
• Van Bogaert-Scherer-Epstein Disease - dementia
• Van der Knaap disease
• Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Dementia
• Vascular dementia
• Vasculitis
• Vegetative state
• Vitamin B1 deficiency
• Vitamin B12 deficiency
• Vitamin B6 deficiency
• Vitamin deficiencies
• Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome - progressive dementia
• Westphal-Leyden ataxia - dementia
• Whipple's disease
• Wilson's disease
• Wolfram's disease - Dementia
• Wright dick syndrome - dementia
• Xanthomatosis cerebrotendinous - dementia

Drug side effect causes of Dementia

The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins may possibly cause Dementia as a side effect.

• Various medications or drug interactions produce behavioral effects that may be mistaken for Alzheimer's or dementia in the elderly
  • Lithium
  • Barbiturates
  • Tricyclic antidepressants
  • Bromides

Drug interaction causes of Dementia:

Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Dementia.

• Methyldopa and Haloperidol interaction
• Fluphenazine and Clonidine interaction
• Plendil and Grapefruit Juice interaction
• Procardia and Grapefruit Juice interaction
• Seldane and Grapefruit Juice interaction

Medical Textbooks about Dementia

Free online access to excerpts without registration is available to view excerpts from medical textbooks about the causes and diagnosis of Dementia. Refer to our list of medical textbooks discussions about Dementia (Free online access to book excerpts, no registration).

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