Early diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia?
The main problems in early diagnosis of Alzheimer dementia (AD) are: 1. The differentiation between normal aging and AD i.e. difficulties in the assessment of cognitive disturbances in the healthy elderly and in early demented subjects. 2. Interference with other dementia syndromes. 3. Lack of information in the population and among physicians about the different causes and courses of dementia syndromes. The first two aspects are discussed in this paper.
Lind
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Neurology University Clinic, Vienna, Austria.
Mraz
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Wöber
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Marschall
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Deecke
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Dal-Bianco
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D000375:Aging / Q000473:pathology; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012016:Reference Values; D013997:Time Factors