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Show comments. Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national ...
The study focused on all-cause dementia, as well as risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, the most common type of dementia. A new test can predict dementia with 82% accuracy, according to ...
Vascular dementia, the second most common type of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, can be caused by atherosclerosis, a buildup of plaque in the arteries that can lead to heart attacks, stroke ...
The informant interview is to be conducted if further information about the patient's function is required (i.e. cognitive test score 5 to 8). It consists of six questions which can be answered with “yes” (=impairment), “no” (=no impairment), “don’t know” or “N/A”. Each question is worth one point.
Alzheimer's disease ( AD) is a neurodegenerative disease that usually starts slowly and progressively worsens, [2] and is the cause of 60–70% of cases of dementia. [2] [15] The most common early symptom is difficulty in remembering recent events. [1] As the disease advances, symptoms can include problems with language, disorientation ...
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Background. The applause sign was first described by Dubois and colleagues in 1995, as “a simple test of motor control that helps to differentiate Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) from frontal or striatofrontal degenerative diseases”, [1] but has since appeared in various neurodegenerative conditions involving frontal lobe dysfunction. [2]