Conditions
Dementia
Dementia is not a specific disease. It is a comprehensive term for various diseases and conditions, identified by a decline in mentality severe enough that it renders a person incapable to perform everyday activities.
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away (degenerate) and die. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia — a continuous decline in thinking, behavioural and social skills that disrupts a person’s ability to function independently.
Vascular Dementia
Vascular dementia is an overall term used to describe problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by damage to the brain, due to impaired blood flow to your brain.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that affects movement. Symptoms start gradually, sometimes starting with a barely noticeable tremor in just one hand. Tremors are common, but the disorder also commonly causes stiffness or slowing of movement.
Frontotemporal Dementia
Frontotemporal dementia is an umbrella term for a group of uncommon brain disorders that primarily affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These areas of the brain are generally associated with personality, behavior and language.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob (KROITS-felt YAH-kobe) disease is a degenerative brain disorder that leads to dementia and, ultimately, death. Symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) can resemble those of other dementia like brain disorders, such as Alzheimer’s. But Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease usually progresses much more rapidly.
Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Lewy body dementia, also known as dementia with Lewy bodies, is the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s. Protein deposits, called Lewy bodies, develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement (motor control).
Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Normal pressure hydrocephalus is a brain disorder in which excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain’s ventricles, which are fluid-filled chambers. NPH is called “normal pressure” because despite the excess fluid, CSF pressure as measured during a spinal tap is often normal.
Huntington's Disease
Huntington’s disease is a inherited progressive brain disorder caused by a single defective gene on chromosome 4, one of the 23 human chromosomes that carry a person’s entire genetic code.
Wernickle-Korsakoff Syndrome
Korsakoff syndrome is a chronic memory disorder caused by severe deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B-1). Korsakoff syndrome is most commonly caused by alcohol misuse, but certain other conditions also can cause the syndrome.
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