Tau summary

     Tauopathies

1. Aging (hippocampal region, 100% > 75y)

2. Alzheimer’s disease (familial, sporadic)

3. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/PD complex of Guam

4. Argyrophilic grain disease

5. British type amyloid angiopathy

6. Corticobasal degeneration

7. Dementia pugilistica/autism with self-injury behaviour

8. Down’s syndrome

9. FTDP-17

10. Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (rarely)
11. Hallenvorden-Spatz disease
12. Inclusion body myositis
13. Multisystem atophy
14. Myotonic dystrophy
15. Niemann-Pick disease type C
16. Parkinson with dementia of Guadeloupe
17. Pick’s disease
18. Presenile dementia with tangles and calcifications
19. Prion protein cerebral amyloid angiopathy
20. Progressive supranuclear palsy
21. Post-encephalitic parkinsonism
22. Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
23. Tangle only dementia