Dementia


Disease modifying treatment available:
Time critical diagnosis and management:
Lateralising:


Taxotomy

Aetiology

Supercategory
Cognitive impairment
Disorder Clinical features Associated features Investigations Disease modifying treatment available Time critical
Vitamin E deficiency Cerebellar ataxia
Iodine deficiency
Marchiafava-Bignami disease
Normal pressure hydrocephalus
Wernicke's encephalopathy Korsakoff syndrome
Anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis Psychosis
Seizure
Ovarian teratoma
Syphilis Facial nerve palsy
Sensorineural hearing loss
Huntington's disease Chorea
Parkinsonism
Motor impersistence
Huntington’s disease phenocopies
Intracranial hypotension Headache
Superficial siderosis
Alzheimer's disease
Lewy body dementia Hallucination
Parkinsonism
Frontotemporal dementia
Vascular dementia
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Hallucination
Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy Cerebellar ataxia
Seizure
Myoclonus
Chorea
Huntington’s disease phenocopies
Prion disease
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis Seizure
Huntington’s disease phenocopies Chorea
Huntington's disease
Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged-red fibers Epilepsy
Myoclonic seizure
Cerebellar ataxia
Sensorineural hearing loss
Optic neuropathy
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure
Atonic seizure
Absence seizure
Proximal muscle weakness
Short stature
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome



Associated Disorders





Clinical features


Dementia may cause the following: