What are the Dementia types?

 

  • Alzheimer’s disease patients have plaques and tangles in their brains. Plaques are clumps of a protein called beta-amyloid, and tangles are fibrous tangles made up of tau protein. It’s thought that these clumps damage healthy neurons and the fibers connecting them.
  • Frontotemporal dementia: This is a group of diseases characterized by the breakdown of nerve cells and their connections in the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain.
  • Cortical dementia affects just the brain’s outer layer (cortex).
  • Subcortical dementia affects the cortex’s lowest layer.
  • Progressive dementia- This disorder worsens with time, gradually producing a greater impediment to cognitive ability.
  • Primary dementia is not a consequence of any other disease
  • Secondary dementia developed as a result of a physical injury
  • Progressive dementia-People with Alzheimer’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and vascular dementia are more likely to develop progressive dementia. Alzheimer’s disease is the most frequent kind of degenerative dementia.

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