Neurodegenerative diseases
Other forms of dementia
The biggest group of diseases is made up of neurodegenerative diseases, which are characterised by a progressive loss of nerve cells and synapses.
For most of these diseases, the causes of this nerve loss are unknown and our knowledge about possible treatment or prevention remains limited.
- FAMILIAL ALZHEIMER DISEASE (FAD)
- DEMENTIA WITH LEWY BODIES (DLB)
- DEMENTIA IN PARKINSON’S DISEASE (PDD)
- FRONTO-TEMPORAL DEGENERATION (FTD)
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATION
- Fronto-temporal dementia (FTD)
- Primary Progressive Aphasia (PPA)
- Semantic Dementia (SD)
- HISTOPATHOLOGICAL SUB-TYPES
- FTD with parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17)
- Pick’s disease (PiD)
- Dementia lacking distinctive histology (DLDH)
- CLINICAL MANIFESTATION
- PROGRESSIVE SUPRANUCLEAR PALSY (PSP)
- CORTICOBASAL DEGENERATION (CBD)
- ARGYROPHILIC GRAIN DISEASE (AGD)
- MULTIPLE SYSTEM ATROPHY (MSA)
- AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)
- ATAXIAS
- HUNTINGTON’S DISEASE (HD)
- DOWN SYNDROME
- FAMILIAL BRITISH DEMENTIA
Last Updated: Thursday 27 August 2015