What are the causes of dementia?
The most common cause of dementia is alzheimer's disease as a major degenerative disorder. However there are six other main causes of dementia.
Thus the 7 main causes of dementia are:
- Degenerative disorders (Alzheimer, Parkinson, Lewy body disease, Huntingron's disease, Fronto temporal dementia and Progressive supra nuclear palsy),
- Trauma (Serious head injury, boxing and subdural ahematoma),
- Vascular causes (Vascular dementia, CADASIL, vasculitis),
- Frontal tumors (Metastatic and primary tumors, bacterial, viral, fungal),
- Anoxia (Post cardiac arrest and carbon monoxide poisoning),
- Toxic, endocrine and metabolic causes (Heavy metals, alcoholism, drug intoxication, hypercalcaemia, hypothyroidism, B12 and folate deficiencies, hepatic and renal failure, inherited metabolic disorders, paraneoplastic and limbic encephalitis),
- Hydrostatic causes (Normal pressure hydrocephalus and obstructive or communicating hydrocephalus).
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