Chapter 38

The Degenerative Dementias

Irena Rektorová MD, PhD

Irena Rektorová MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology

First Department of Neurology, Masaryk University and St Anne's Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic

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Robert Rusina MD

Robert Rusina MD

Neurologist

Department of Neurology, Thomayer Teaching Hospital and Institute of Postgraduate Education in Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic

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Jakub Hort MD, PhD

Jakub Hort MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology

Department of Neurology, Charles University, Teaching Hospital Motol, Prague, Czech Republic

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Radoslav Matěj MD, PhD

Radoslav Matěj MD, PhD

Neuropathologist

Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, National Laboratory for Diagnostics of Prion Diseases, Thomayer Teaching Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic

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First published: 11 September 2009

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Alzheimer's disease

  • Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease dementia

  • Vascular dementia

  • Frontotemporal dementia

  • Prion diseases

  • Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD)

  • Further reading

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