How vitamin deficiency leads to dementia - The Times of India

How vitamin deficiency leads to dementia - The Times of India: Often considered an old man's disease, dementia is a disease of forgetfulness where the patient loses higher mental function and capacity to think and memorise things. Even though, the usual associations with dementia are vascular problems, alcoholism, intoxication and Alzheimer's disease, over the past few years new research has found links between dementia and vitamin deficiency - especially, folate, vitamins D, and B12. Let us understand this in detail.