Diagnosaurus
Dementia
Etiology
Reversible causes
- Hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism
- Depression
- Drugs, eg, anticholinergics, sedatives, antipsychotics, opioids
- Vitamin B12 or thiamine deficiency
- Hypercalcemia
- Uremic or hepatic encephalopathy
- Space-occupying lesion, eg, brain tumor, subdural hematoma
- Neurosyphilis
- HIV
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Wilson’s disease
- Sleep apnea
- Chronic meningitis
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia
- Parkinson’s disease
- Dementia with Lewy bodies
- Huntington’s disease
- Frontotemporal dementia, eg, Pick’s disease
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Dementia." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Medicine Central, im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia.
Zeiger RFR. Dementia. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia. Accessed July 24, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Dementia. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia
Zeiger RFR. Dementia [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 July 24]. Available from: https://im.unboundmedicine.com/medicine/view/Diagnosaurus/114829/all/Dementia.
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