UCSF - Memory and Aging Center - Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Dementia Overview:
"Dementia is a general term for a disease that changes memory and/or thinking skills severly enough to impair a person' daily functioning. It is not part of normal, healthy aging."......taken from UCSF's newly updated website
Learn about diseases [Alzheimer's, ALS, CJD, etc,] that can lead to dementia, use the search engine to type in specific dementias on this page: http://memory.ucsf.edu/dementia-overview
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