differential diagnosis
Last edited 05/2022 and last reviewed 07/2023
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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