| Type of dementia |
Diagnostic criteria |
| Alzheimer’s disease |
- Preferred criteria: NINCDS/ADRDA
- Alternatives include ICD-10 and DSM-IV
|
| Vascular dementia |
- Preferred criteria: NINDS-AIREN
- Alternatives include ICD-10 and DSM-IV
|
| Dementia with Lewy bodies |
- International Consensus criteria for dementia with Lewy bodies
|
| Frontotemporal dementia |
- Lund-Manchester criteria
- NINDS criteria for frontotemporal dementia
|
- DSM-IV: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition
- ICD-10: International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision
- NINCDS/ADRDA: National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Diseases and Stroke/Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Association
- NINDS–AIREN: Neuroepidemiology Branch of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke–Association Internationale pour la Recherche et l’Enseignement en Neurosciences
|
Definite diagnoses require histopathology acquired from autopsy or biopsy.
Probable and possible diagnoses can be made using the various clinical criteria.
Many patients will have a mixed dementia with features suggestive of several subtypes. They should be treated according to the most predominant type.
