Summary
Differentials
Common
- Mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
- Delirium
- Depression
- Alzheimer's dementia
- Vascular dementia
- Lewy body dementia
Uncommon
- Amnestic syndromes
- Aphasia
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- Huntington's disease
- Brain tumours
- Cushing's syndrome
- Hypopituitarism
- Primary hyperparathyroidism
- Acute intermittent porphyria
- Primary hypothyroidism
- Hyperthyroidism
- Wilson's disease
- Vitamin B12 deficiency
- Traumatic brain injury
- Lyme disease
- Tuberculosis
- Syphilis (late)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Medication use
- Toxin-induced
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Contributors
Authors
Professor of Psychiatry
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland
OH
Disclosures
RT declares that he has no competing interests.
Dr Rajesh Tampi would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Sarper Taskiran, Dr Javier Lopez, and Dr Sunanda Muralee, the previous contributors to this monograph. ST, JL, and SM declare that they have no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven
CT
Disclosures
KW declares that she has no competing interests.
Director
Memory Disorders Program
Department of Neurology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
NC
Disclosures
DK has received research support, speaking honoraria, and consulting fees from Eisai, Forest Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson, Medivation, Novartis, Ortho-McNeil, and Pfizer.
Professor Emeritus of Mental Health
University of Aberdeen Institute of Applied Health Sciences
Aberdeen
UK
Disclosures
LW declares that he has no competing interests.
Director
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health
Las Vegas
NV
Disclosures
RS declares that he has no competing interests.
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