Cortical Dementias #
Alzheimer’s Disease Dementia #
- Amnestic variant
- Posterior cortical atrophy / Posterior variant (PCA)
- Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (lvPPA) (Atypical Alzheimer’s)
Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) #
Language Variant #
- Primary progressive aphasia (PPA)
- Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA)
- Nonfluent agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (nfaPPA)
Behavioural Variant #
- Behavioural variant fronto-temporal dementia (bvFTD)
Subcortical Dementias #
- Huntington’s disease dementia
- Vascular disease dementia
- Parkinson’s disease dementia
Atypical Parkinsonian Syndromes #
- Progressive supra-nuclear palsy (PSP)
- Multiple system atrophy (MSA)
Cortico-subcortical Dementias #
- Corticobasal degeneration (CBD)
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease dementia
- Dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB)
Other differential diagnoses #
- Accelerated long-term forgetting
- Delirium
- Mild Cognitive Impairment (temporary or prodromal to a dementia syndrome)
- Cognitive impairment due to:
- alcohol toxicity
- anaesthesia
- genetic and developmental disorders
- hydrocephalus
- multiple sclerosis
- stroke
- traumatic brain injury
- pharmacotherapies
- radiation treatment
- surgery
- toxic chemicals
- and more!
