Learn the overlapping causes of dementia: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease), and frontotemporal dementia.
This video describes the many causes of dementia. Most dementias are caused by neurodegenerative diseases, along with cerebrovascular diseases – which typically occur post stroke. Many of the diseases that cause dementia have overlapping symptoms and many people are living with more than one neurodegenerative disease; this is also termed having mixed or complex disease. This video describes neurodegeneration and its impacts on different parts of the brain.
The Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI) is a provincial collaboration studying Dementia and how to improve the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of associated diseases including Alzheimer’s disease/Mild cognitive impairment, Parkinson’s disease, Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Stroke.
ONDRI is carried out in partnership with the Ontario Brain Institute.
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