Conditions We Treat

Because Brain Health & Memory Center staff work closely with the Neurology Department at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and have access to research sponsored the National Institutes of Health as well as the pharmaceutical industry and physicians around the world, we are able to provide state-of-the-art care for virtually any disorder that involves memory and cognition.

Among the diagnoses of our patients are:

• Alzheimer’s disease
  The most common cause of dementia in people over age 65
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• Other dementias
  This is a general term that describes a group of symptoms such as loss of memory, judgment, language, motor skills and intellectual function; caused by damage or death of brain neurons
• Vascular dementia
  May result from blocked arteries that supply blood to the brain or from a stroke that interrupts the brain’s blood flow; symptoms are similar to Alzheimer’s
• Frontotemporal dementia
• Dementia with Lewy bodies
• Mild cognitive impairment
• Parkinson’s disease dementia
  Characterized by trembling, stiffness, poor balance and/or slow movement; dementia often occurs late in this disease
• Huntington’s disease
  An inherited brain disorder; dementia may occur in late stages of this disease
• Autism (adults)
• Adult ADHD
• Trisomy 21 (Down’s syndrome)