Our healthcare team specializes in the care of patients with the following memory disorders:
- Alzheimer's disease
- Mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (symptoms of memory loss have begun, but they have not yet had a measurable impact on the person's activities of daily living)
- Preclinical Alzheimer's disease (the disease has already started to develop in the brain, but symptoms have not yet become apparent)
- Lewy body dementia, the second most common type of dementia, which may cause visual hallucinations, fluctuations in alertness and attention, and movement problems
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus, a build-up of fluid in the brain (usually in elderly individuals) which can cause progressive dementia, problems with walking, and impaired bladder control
- Vascular dementia, which is caused by impaired blood flow to the brain
- Dementia related to Parkinson's disease
- Frontotemporal dementia, which affects the areas of the brain that govern personality, behavior, and language
- Primary progressive aphasia, a rare neurologic disorder that impairs language and the ability to speak
- Lyme disease with neurologic complications, collagen vascular diseases, and other illnesses that can cause cognitive impairment