What Disease Causes Dementia
How Does HIV/AIDS Dementia Differ from Alzheimer's?
Infection used to be the main cause of dementia. Treatment for infections and inflammation of the central nervous system (CNS) has dramatically decreased the incidence of infection-related dementia. But there has been one infectious disease that has reversed the trend and that is HIV/AIDS. It is the statistical increase that is one of the few aspects in which HIV dementia can be compared to Alzheimer's. The big difference is that with Alzheimer's the increased incident of the disease is due to t...
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Reversible Dementias
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