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- Multi-infarct or Vascular Dementia - Good overview of dementia from strokes or other vascular causes. Maintained by the National Institute of Health
- Dementia Voice - Dementia Services Development Centre for the Southwest of England. Details of provision of information, training and consultancy services to professional carers in the field of dementia care.
- Dementia.com - Comprehensive information and tools on dementia, created for medical professionals and for patients or caregivers.
- AIDS Dementia Complex - A comprehensive guide to this condition called ADC, dementia, sub acute encephalitis or HIV encephalitis from AEGIS.
- The Dementia Services Development Centre - Registered charity based at the University of Stirling seeking to improve understanding of dementia and improve the standard of care for dementia patients. Services on offer including training, information and consultancy.
- Dementia: Diagnosis and Treatment - Diagnosis, management and support for individuals and families affected by dementia
- Dementias: Hope Through Research - Information on Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, and other types of dementia compiled by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).
- Butler Hospital Memory Disorders Program - Designed to assist individuals with memory loss and dementia and their families by providing high quality, comprehensive evaluation and treatment, while also researching and developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, and training medical residents, psychology interns, and fellows - from Brown Medical School.
- LikeTelevision: Dementia 13 - Full broadband movie download, in four parts. Also includes film information and trailer.
- Dementia - Overview and fact sheet on dementia from the Merck Medical Manual.
Wikipedia Articles
- Alcohol dementia - Alcohol dementia, which is sometimes associated with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, is a form of dementia caused by long-term or excessive drinking resulting in neurological damage and memory loss. Other names for the condition are alcoholic dementia, alcohol related dementiaKapaki, Elissavet.
- Prevention of dementia - Prevention of dementia is the attempt to avoid developing dementia.
- Clinical Dementia Rating - The Clinical Dementia Rating or CDR is a numeric scale used to quantify the severity of symptoms of dementia (i.e.
- Dementia pugilistica - Dementia pugilistica, also called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), boxer's dementia, and punch-drunk syndrome, is a neurological disorder which affects some career boxers and others who receive multiple dazing blows to the head. The condition develops over a period of years, with the average time of onset being about 12-16 years after the start of a ...
- Dementia praecox - Dementia praecox ("premature dementia") is a term first used in 1891 in this Latin form by Arnold Pick (1851-1924), a professor of psychiatry at the German branch of Charles University in Prague. His brief clinical report described the case of a person with a psychotic disorder resembling hebephrenia (see below).