Dementia is a term used to describe severe changes in the brain that cause memory loss. These changes also make it difficult for people to perform basic daily activities. In most people, dementia causes changes in behavior and personality.
Dementia affects three areas of the brain:
Language
Memory
Decision-making
Most cases of dementia are caused by a disease and can’t be reversed.
1. Alzheimer’s
2. Vascular dementia
3. Lewy body dementia
4. Parkinson’s
5. Frontotemporal
6. Creutzfeldt-Jakob
7. Wernicke-Korsakoff
8. Mixed dementia
9. Normal pressure hydrocephalus
10. Huntington’s disease
11. Other causes