The increased dementia risk does not necessarily mean delirium causes dementia. Instead, people who already had undiagnosed dementia could become more easily confused after hospital admission.

These symptoms affect day-to-day life. Dementia is caused by different diseases. Dementia with Lewy bodies is the third most common disease that causes dementia after Alzheimer’s disease and vascular ...

Researchers at Cedars-Sinai have found that some people diagnosed with a serious type of dementia may actually have a condition that can be treated. The disease, called behavioral-variant ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, has been developed to distinguish prion disease from other rapidly progressive dementias, such as autoimmune dementia and Alzheimer's ...

While scientists have been studying dementia for years, they still don’t fully understand what causes it, and there is currently no cure. However, a new study from researchers at Weill Cornell ...

Excessive alcohol use over a long period of time can cause memory and behavioral changes, often described as alcoholic dementia or alcohol-related dementia. Contributing factors may include head ...

Frontotemporal dementia also called FTD, is a rarer type of dementia caused by a build up of proteins, tau, FUS and TDP-43, in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Dementia is caused by ...

Researchers don't know exactly what causes a person to develop frontotemporal dementia (FTD). However, there are some things that are known to affect a person’s chances of getting FTD, such as certain ...

Physicians should be able to recognize common dementia syndromes. After excluding reversible causes of dementia, there are four common dementia syndromes, which are Alzheimer's disease ...

People with Parkinson's disease are more likely to develop certain types of dementia. Find out about the causes, symptoms and treatments. Parkinson’s disease is a brain disease that affects around 145 ...

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