Overlapping causes of dementia: Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, ALS, Lou Gehrig's

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.

Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI) is designed to improve the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), frontotemporal lobar dementia, and stroke (vascular cognitive impairment).

It’s a province-wide collaboration between Ontario’s world-class neurodegenerative disease researchers and clinicians, patient advocacy groups and the industrial sector.

Learn more at ondri.ca. The Ontario Neurodegenerative Disease Research Initiative (ONDRI) is a provincial collaboration studying Dementia and how to improve the diagnosis and treatment of associated diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, 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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