While Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia, there are other causes of dementia.

Potentially reversible causes of dementia:

• Major Depression
• Hypothyroidism
• B-12 Deficiency
• Neurosyphilis

Other degenerative/chronic dementias:

• Vascular Dementia
• Parkinson’s disease
• Alcoholism
• Normal pressure hydrocephalus
• Frontotemporal Dementia
• Dementia with Lewy Bodies
• General Medical Conditions
• HIV
• Traumatic Brain Injury
• Huntington’s disease