
Other cerebral degenerations

Alzheimer's disease
- neurodegenerative disorder of the CNS resulting in progressive loss of memory and intellectual functions; begins in the middle or later years; characterized by brain lesions such as neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques.
- A disabling degenerative disease of the nervous system occurring in middle-aged or older persons and characterized by dementia and failure of memory for recent events, followed by total incapacitation and death. Types of the Alzheimer syndrome are differentiated by the age of onset and genetic characteristics. The early onset form (the mean age of the onset of symptoms between the ages of 40 and 60 years) and the late onset form (the onset of symptoms after the age of 60 years). Three forms are identified: AD-1, AD-2, AD-3. Some of the clinical characteristics of the Alzheimer syndrome are similar to those of the Pick syndrome.
- A progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of function and death of nerve cells in several areas of the brain leading to loss of cognitive function such as memory and language.

Pick's disease

Pick's disease

Other frontotemporal dementia

Senile degeneration of brain

Communicating hydrocephalus

Obstructive hydrocephalus

Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (inph)

Cerebral degeneration in diseases classified elsewhere

Other cerebral degeneration

Reye's syndrome
- rare, acute, sometimes fatal disease of childhood, most often occurring as a sequel of varicella or a viral upper respiratory infection of childhood; marked by recurrent vomiting and elevated serum transaminase levels with distinctive changes in the liver and other viscera; an encephalopathic phase with acute brain swelling disturbances of consciousness and seizures may follow.

Dementia with lewy bodies
- Neurodegenerative disease marked by the presence of Lewy body cells in the cerebral cortex and brain stem. Symptoms often include dementia, parkinsonianism, and striking fluctuations in cognitive performance.

Mild cognitive impairment, so stated

Other cerebral degeneration

Cerebral degeneration unspecified
- result of genetic metabolic defects or damage by exogenous or endogenous toxins; characterized by cerebral cortex atrophy and progressive cerebral demyelination; dementia and mental deterioration are common.