1 These are synovial joints between the interior articular process of superior vertebrae and the superior articular process of inferior vertebrae. 2  These plane joints are known as zygapophyseal joints (facet joints) . 3  The flat surfaces of the articular facets are covered with hyaline cartilage.
Major depression was more common and severe in patients with vascular dementia than in patients with AD. In another study of 288 outpatients with dementia, a prevalence of 7.4% was found with HAM-D, 8% prevalence with the GDS and 6.3% with DSM-IV criteria (Brodaty and Luscombe, 1996).
Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause. Stroke is the second most common cause of dementia. Dementia caused by stroke is called vascular dementia. Some causes of dementia can be reversed with treatment, but most cannot. Causes that cannot be reversed. Common causes of dementia that cannot be reversed are: Parkinson's disease. Dementia is common in people with this condition. Dementia with Lewy bodies. It can cause short-term memory loss. Frontotemporal dementia, a group of diseases that includes Pick's disease. Severe head injury that caused a loss of consciousness.