Dementia is a chronic abnormality of the brain where the behavior, thinking and the memory gets slowly depleted. This is a syndrome that will worsen over time. With the aid of medicines, it is believed that the progression may be declined or slowed down.

In this article, some of the common types of this disability will be explained in detail.

Alzheimer’s disease
Studies reveal that 60% of sufferers are having Alzheimer’s disorder. There are nearly 5 million citizens in the country who are struggling with this disorder. Initially, the person with Alzheimer may notice memory loss and difficulty in managing daily chores. There may be confusion and writing and speaking problems. They may experience poor judgment and personality changes.

Vascular dementia
People with this type of problem may have a stroke in any phase of life. Vascular dementia starts off as the person is incapable to make a clear judgment and there may be a problem in deciding and organizing. There may be trouble in speaking fluently. Problems may be recognized with sounds and vision. There may be confused behavioral changes in the person.

Lewy body-associated dementia
Lewy bodies are deposited in the brain of some people. If these bodies are formed in the cortex region of the brain this may cause serious symptoms. Some of the symptoms include trouble in memory, unusual sleep patterns, blacking out and hallucination. There may an inability to take a straight decision and memory trouble.

Parkinson’s dementia
This form is caused as the nervous tissues are destroyed. The Parkinson is a separate disease which may have dementia-like symptoms 80% of the time. The symptoms are same as the Lewy body formation.

Mixed dementia
The Alzheimer’s and vascular disorder may occur at a time causing this mixed syndrome. This has symptoms that are the same as the two diseases.

Frontotemporal dementia
In this dementia, the frontal temporal part of the brain gets damaged. In such a case, the emotion, speech, movement, and judgment are hampered. At times there are changes in behavior and personality of the individual as well. This is associated to have problems in the fluent speech and movement problems.

Huntington’s disease
This is a disease which is caused due to a genetic mutation that might have been passed from ancestry. The disease is having characteristic symptoms to appear between 30-35 years of age. The common symptoms include judgment imbalance, concentration problem, organizing problems and loss of memory.

Creutzfeldt Jakob disorder
This is a rare case where the prion protein localized in the brain starts getting into abnormal shapes. The symptoms may get worse in short span in such a case. The common symptoms of such type of dementia include loss of memory and concentration, mood swings, confusion, poor judgment and so on.

Normal hydrocephalus
This causes fluid to build up in the brain. The common symptoms include difficulty in walking, concentrating and thinking. There may be behavioral and personality changes in the individual. The treatment requires draining out the fluid from the brain using a tube called shunt.

Thus, these are some of the types of dementia that one might suffer from. Every disorder has a distinct treatment plan.