Dementias are often know by different names or by their abbreviations. To make it easier for you to find the appropriate information, we have compiled an A-Z list of dementias and their synonyms.

Information on Alzheimer's disease is given here such as whether it can predicted, how it is diagnosed, treated as well as the main characteristics of the disease.

This section has information on other dementia-related neurodegenerative diseases, as well as those diseases caused for example by a virus (infectious),irregularities of the metabolism (metabolic), head trauma (traumatic),the consumption of toxins (toxic) and by the blood vessels in the brain becoming diseased (cerebro-vascular).