| Alzheimer's disease |
Increased memory loss, confusion, inability to learn new information, difficulty with language, reading and writing and decline in judgment. |
| Parkinson's disease |
Tremors/shaking of limb, hand or fingers. Rigid muscles, impaired posture and balance, loss of automatic movements and speech and writing changes. |
| Lewy body dementia |
Hallucinations or delusions, changes in movement, sleep problems, behavior shifts. |
| Frontotemporal disease |
Apathy, unwillingness to talk, personality/mood changes, depression, lack of inhibition, lack of social tact, obsessive/repetitive behaviors. |
| Vascular dementia |
Confusion, difficulty concentrating, slowed thinking, a decline in the ability to analyze a situation and reduced ability to organize thoughts or actions. |
| Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
Personal changes, memory loss, blurred vision or blindness, insomnia, difficulty speaking and swallowing. |
| Mixed dementia |
Slowness of thought, difficulty planning, difficulty understanding and concentrating, changes in mood and behavior, memory and language loss. |
