A transient awakening of a patient with Alzheimer's disease that questions our practice.
Improvements are not usually described in the natural history of degenerative dementia. It seems possible to find the normal workings of impaired learning and lost long-term memories that appeared to be permanently altered after severe neurodegeneration and synaptic loss. The activation of these programs seems to represent the basis of the dysfunction, rather than the program itself.
Department of Gerontology Hôpital Broca (Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris) Paris 75013 France; University Paris Descartes EA 4468-75014 Paris France.
Frédéric
F
Bloch
Alzheimer's disease; natural history; single case