What causes Dementia?

Causes of dementia include:

• Alzheimer's disease -the most common cause of dementia
• Brain damage after multiple small strokes (so-called vascular dementia)
• Alcoholism
• AIDS
• Multiple sclerosis
• Huntington's disease
• Parkinson's disease
• Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
• Lewy body dementia
• Pick's disease
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Untreated syphilis
• Toxic levels of metals, such as aluminum (as can sometimes occur in dialysis patients)
• Vitamin B12 deficiency
• Thiamine deficiency
• Fronto-temporal dementia