A historian challenges a labor-history fable. Timothy Messer-Kruse doesnât remember her name, but the question she asked in his college classroom a dozen years ago changed his career â and now it may revolutionize everything historians thought they knew about a hallowed event in the imagination of the American Left.
Though the effects of the disease are similar, there are two main types. 1  Early-onset Alzheimer's. This type happens to people who are younger than age 65. 2  Late-onset Alzheimer's. This is the most common form of the disease, which happens to people age 65 and older.
There is no medical term of âneurological dementiaâ, as it would be repetitive, since the term, dementia, indicates a neurologic cause of cognitive dysfunction. However, there are several different types of dementia. The most common form of dementia is Alzheimer disease, but there are many other possible causes of dementia, such as from vascular disease, or multi-infarct dementia. The treatment for dementia will be tailored to the specific type of dementia, but the most commonly used first-line medicines are medicines that increase levels of acetylcholine in the brain, such as donepezil (Aricept) and rivastigmine (Exelon).