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Differential diagnosis

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The differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease includes:

  • dementia with Lewy bodies
  • Pick's disease
  • dementia secondary to an acute event, e.g. head injury, acute encephalopathy, severe anoxia.
  • chronic alcoholism
  • syphilis
  • brain tumour
  • hydrocephalus and normal pressure hydrocephalus
  • Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
  • atherosclerotic - multi-infarct dementia
  • Huntington’s chorea
  • B12 deficiency
  • 'dialysis dementia' secondary to aluminum intoxification
  • myxoedema
  • pseudodementia in depression.

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