Memory loss

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Editor(s)-in-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S.,M.D. [mailto:mgibson@perfuse.org] Phone:617-632-7753; Angela Botts, M.D., Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Geriatric Medicine

Overview
Memory loss can be caused by many things.


 * Alzheimer's disease is an illness which can cause mild to severe memory loss.
 * Parkinson's disease is a genetic defect which can always result in memory loss.
 * Huntington's disease is an inherited disease which can result in memory loss.
 * Chemotherapy using cytotoxic drugs to treat cancer
 * stress related activities are another factor which can result in memory loss.
 * It is also caused by concussion.