DEMENTIAS - CORRELATION OF CLINICAL-FEATURES AND NEURORADIOLOGY

Dementia is a chronic and progressive impairment of some or all higher functions of the brain. Dementia can be caused by at least 60 disorde rs. The most representative is the dementia of the Alzheimer's type (D AT) accounting for aproximately 50-60% of cases. Current methods of ne uroimaging have revolutionized the examination of patients with dement ia. Neuroimaging can be quite useful in confirming the clinical. asses sment of the pattern of dementia and in further refining the diagnosis . The present paper reviews then neuroimaging findings in dementia and discusses their role.