Parkinson’s can cause a condition called Parkinson’s disease dementia. This condition is marked by a decline in thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving. Parkinson’s disease is a progressive ...

Some of the atypical parkinsonian disorders, such as progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), multiple system atrophy (MSA), vascular parkinsonism (VP) are discussed in separate articles on the website ...

Persons with mild or unrecognized dementia have also been described as having vascular parkinsonism or lower body parkinsonism. Signs of frontal dysfunction are always included in discussions of ...

Physicians frequently encounter patients with dementia and parkinsonism, and a number of differential diagnoses should be raised such as multi-infarct dementia, normal pressure hydrocephalus ...

Lewy body dementia contains both Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD) and Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). DLB is the second most common cause of dementia in the general population and affects an ...

Vascular dementia is a loss of cognitive abilities ... Dementia with Lewy bodies, a disease that is similar to Parkinson’s disease, causes progressively worsening memory loss, difficulty with ...

People with Parkinson's disease are more likely to develop certain types of dementia. Find out about the causes, symptoms and treatments. Parkinson’s disease is a brain disease that affects around 145 ...