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This chapter focuses on the classification, presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of common and less common dementia types, such as Alzheimer’s dementia, Lewy Body Dementia, and Frontotemporal Lobar Dementia.

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  1. Department of Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

    Doris Kung

  2. Department of Neurology, The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX, USA

    Thy Nguyen

  3. Adventist Health, Paradise, CA, USA

    Ritu Das

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Kung, D., Nguyen, T., Das, R. (2019). Dementia. In: Absolute Case-Based Neurology Review. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11132-8_5

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