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Kuru Disease
Kuru is a very rare form of prion disease, very like variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, that affeced a tribe in the north of New Guinea called the Fore. Kuru occured when the trbe eat their cooked relatives at their funeral.

Younger People with Dementia
Younger people with dementia, their caregivers and children have to face problems that older people with Alzheimer's disease do not. Roughly a third of young people with Dementia have Alzheimer's disease. Early onset Alzheimer's can develop in some very rare cases in people in their thirties.

Parkinsons Disease Dementia
Parkinson's disease has a number of key features that are similar to Alzheimer's disease.

What is Dementia?
The term dementia can be found since Roman times in medical texts and in the philosophical works of Cicero.

Vascular Dementia
Vascular dementia is the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease that affects about 25% of all people with dementia. People with an Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Sri Lankan or African Caribbean ethnic background are more at risk of vascular dementia. Find out about causes, signs symptoms, facts and treatments for vascular dementia

Neurosyphilis
Neurosyphilis a dementia caused by syphilis

AIDS dementia complex
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Dementia

Huntington's Disease
Huntington's disease is an inherited progressive form of dementia in which personality, memory and mood changes as the disease advances.

Cortical & Subcortical Dementias
Depending on which part of the brain is suspected as the cause of dementia, the dementia may be classified as either cortical or subcortical.